Proposal to add registration plates used in non-European Contracting Parties to the scope of the regulation. This document is based on the previous document GRE-69-23.

Japan proposes revisions to certain collision conditions in the UN R34 provisions for fire prevention in the event of a rear collision to conform to conditions that have been made mandatory in Japan. Once amended, Japan would adopt UN R34 pursuant to the whole vehicle type approval (IWVTA) effort.

Proposal to add field-of-vision provisions to enhance the safety of pedestrians and other vulnerable road users in narrow alleys and by-streets and other improvements to Regulation No. 46, including to further the development of the International Whole Vehicle Type Approval (IWVTA) program.

Presentation on Japan’s concerns and proposals regarding the rear vision of large vehicles on narrow streets and alleyways and pedestrian safety. Japan wishes to resolve this issue in order to make progress towards the International Whole Vehicle Type Approval system.

Japanese explanation of its field of vision requirements and test specifications under UN R125 and R46 pursuant to enabling Japan’s participation in IWVTA.

Update on the integration of UN Regulations under the purview of the Working Party on General Safety into the proposed International Whole Vehicle Type Approval system.

Presentation in support of and offering revisions to Japan’s proposal (document GRSG/2013/5) for amendments to UN R46 in order to bring the regulation into line with Japanese regulations (pursuant to the International Whole Vehicle Type Approval initiative).

Proposal to exclude M1 vehicles from the close-proximity field of vision requirements pursuant to the establishment of the international whole vehicle type approval system.

Comments by the expert of Japan (Ambassador of IWVTA to GRSP) concerning the interpretation of the acceptance of type approvals to the preceding series of amendments (singular or plural) to be mentioned in transitional provisions of UN Regulations in general.

Presentation by the IWVTA group chairs on enhancing the 1958, and in particular concerning efforts to make the Agreement more accessible to new Contracting Parties such as through permitting the application of earlier versions of current UN Regulations.

Comments from Japan concerning the smooth implementation of the International Whole Vehicle Type Approval system.

Concerns from legal experts towards ensuring that revisions to the 1958 Agreement pursuant to the implementation of the International Whole Vehicle Type Approval system would be agreed by all Contracting Parties.

Working draft proposal to establish an informal working group to prepare the materials necessary for the management of the international whole vehicle type approval (IWVTA) process and for the exchange of type approval data (DETA). In particular, this group would include the type approval authorities in order to ensure coverage of all the remaining administrative and technical issues related to the IWVTA process.

The mandate of IWVTA Informal Group will terminate by the end of the year 2017. This document is the first tentative draft proposal of “Rules of Procedure and Terms of Reference for IWVTA Phase 2 Informal Group” to be further scrutinized and refined by IWVTA Informal Group, taking into account views expressed in the June session of WP. 29. IWVTA Informal Group plans to submit final proposal to WP.29 for consideration at its November session.

Responses from Vietnam to questions provided by Japan during the 15th ASEAN Consultative Committee on Standards and Quality-Automotive Products Working Group (ACCSQ-APWG) in Cambodia concerning the 1958 Agreement and IWVTA. (ASEAN and Vietnam are working towards accession to the Agreement.)

Responses from Singapore to questions provided by Japan during the 15th ASEAN Consultative Committee on Standards and Quality-Automotive Products Working Group (ACCSQ-APWG) in Cambodia concerning the 1958 Agreement and IWVTA. (ASEAN and Singapore are working towards accession to the Agreement.)

Survey of selected Contracting Parties to the 1958 Agreement (responses in blue) concerning IWVTA and related proposed revisions to the agreement.

Comments on the consolidated working draft of the revised 1958 Agreement in view of the proposed implementation of an International Whole Vehicle Type Approval system.

Proposal for Article 12.2 of the revised 1958 Agreement.

Comments on the consolidated draft proposal for revision of the 1958 Agreement pursuant to the development of the IWVTA system.

Japan comments on the proposal for a procedure by which a new technology could be exempted from certain requirements of a UN Regulation with which it is incompatible.

Japan comments on the proposal for a procedure by which a new technology could be exempted from certain requirements of a UN Regulation with which it is incompatible.

PowerPoint presentation for a flexible scheme to permit different levels of requirements among Contracting Parties to the international whole vehicle type approval system.

PowerPoint presentation of concepts for permitting flexibility within the international whole vehicle type approval system.