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

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.

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.