Agenda for the ninth session of the expert group preparing revisions to the 1958 Agreement as part of the program to establish an international whole vehicle type approval system.

Australia and the UK propose:

• New text for Article 4 (rights and obligations in cases of a non-conforming approval to a UN regulation), particularly to clarify the terminology used (threat to road safety or to the environment….) and to strengthen the provisions;
• New text in Schedule 7, Section 5 to allow the granting of individual “exemption approvals” without committing Contracting Parties to accept such approvals within their own market;
• Changes to Article 3 to clarify that the acceptance of a UN regulation that has been applied is also subject to it meeting any discretionary options allowed for within the regulation;
• Changes to Article 8 so that approvals issued by a CP automatically cease to be valid after a defined period should the CP withdraw from the Agreement; and
• UK acceptance of text proposed by Australia to address CP’s that do not have approval authorities.

Comments from Australia and the UK on the draft “Proposal for Revision 3 of the 1958 Agreement”.

Proposal from the Netherlands for editorial improvements and clarifications to the draft text of Schedule 7 concerning exemptions from UN Regulation provisions where warranted for new technologies.