Overview of proposed system to permit whole vehicle type approvals among countries (Contracting Parties) with different requirements.

OICA-submitted working draft of the international whole vehicle type approval regulation.

The intention of this document is to explain important concepts and to provide guidance for Contracting Parties in order to enable effective and consistent application of the IWVTA process. This revision incorporates discussions from the 8th SGR0 group meeting.

Consideration of “optional requirements” of UN Regulations within the context of the proposed International Whole Vehicle Type Approval system.

Presentation to review the draft regulation that would enable the international type approval of whole vehicles.

Presentation on the proposed procedures for updating UN R0. This regulation would govern the International Whole Vehicle Type Approval process and as such, would need to be updated (annually under the proposal) in line with changes to the various component or system level UN Regulations that are included within the scope of the whole vehicle type approval.

OICA-proposed revisions to the draft Q&A document intended to help explain the international whole vehicle type approval system and the proposed “UN Regulation No. 0” (document SGR0-08-06).

Revisions to the proposed paragraphs 11, 12, and 13 concerning, respectively, Technical Services, procedures for amending the draft regulation on international whole vehicle type approvals, and provisions for Contracting Party acceptance of approvals. The document also addresses Annex 2 on approval markings and Annex 4 on limited whole vehicle approvals (L-IWVTA).

The proposed text is submitted for insertion into the draft Regulation (SGR0-11-03) in response to the action items noted in document SGR0-11-01.

Proposal for revised guidelines and procedures for UN Regulations pursuant to the development of the International Whole Vehicle Type Approval system, including a procedure for exemptions of new technologies from current UN Regulation requirements and the procedure for updating the IWVTA regulation (proposed UN R0).

OICA strongly supports the German proposal and seeks clarification of certain points.

OICA proposal for the “Information document for the purpose of IWVTA” that retains in the document only those entries that are essential for the identification of a vehicle type and its variants or describe important properties of the whole vehicle. This proposal also deletes entries not relevant for category M1 vehicles.

Annex 4 (“List of requirements for the purpose of IWVTA: List of regulatory acts”) contains the list of UN Regulations that would comprise the whole vehicle type approvals.

OICA request to omit the proposed declaration of conformity provisions from the first phase implementation of the IWVTA, essentially arguing that the additional declaration is not justified in the context of type approval.

Proposal to insert language into the definition of a vehicle type clarifying the application (or non-application) of regulations included in the IWVTA across variants of a single type-approved vehicle in order to avoid scenarios where a single vehicle type could have more than one type approval or an approval under a non-applicable regulation (say, electrified vehicle requirements for a non-electrified variant of a vehicle type) could be demanded for a vehicle variant.

Proposal for provisions concerning a “Declaration of Conformance” for vehicles approved under the International Whole Vehicle Type Approval regulation.

Proposal to amend the paragraph concerning the modification of a vehicle type and extension or modification of approval.

This document proposes to replace an item in the information document for IWVTA. The reason is that the previous entry “maximum hourly output” is not defined anywhere in the UN Regulations whereas the newly proposed item “maximum 30 min. power” is defined in UN R85.

Proposed text to explain procedures for the withdrawal or revocation of a whole vehicle type approval, including differences between a universal (U-IWVTA) approval and a limited (L-IWVTA) approval.

Second proposal from the UN R0 Pre-testing Task Force for validating the international whole vehicle type approval regulation.

A complete and comprehensive review of the UN R0 base document for the 19th SGR0 meeting performed by experts from OICA.

Presentation concerning how an IWVTA could relate to the structure of individual national or regional whole vehicle approval systems. In some cases, there may be a one-to-one relationship between the international and local whole vehicle approvals. In others, a single IWVTA may correspond to more than one local approval while in others, multiple IWVTA may be required to correspond to a broader local definition of a whole vehicle approval.

OICA proposal, updated by the SGR0 Pre-test task force coordinator, for the organization and rules of procedure for validating the proposed whole vehicle type approval regulation.

Presentation of a proposal for type approval authority “attestations” to address cases where a UN Regulation contains provisions not required in all markets. For example, UN R48 contains provisions for daytime running lamps presently required in the EU but not in Japan. An attestation would declare a vehicle compliant with all aspects of UN R48 except that the vehicle is not fitted with DRL.

Concept for addressing vehicle approvals incorporating regulated equipment that is mandatory under some jurisdictions while optional under others.

Proposal to clarify that a vehicle type under the IWVTA regulation can only exist if there is at least one IWVTA whole vehicle approval associated with it.

Proposal to clarify that a vehicle type under the IWVTA regulation can only exist if there is at least one IWVTA whole vehicle approval associated with it.