ETRTO detected an issue in document ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2022/7 with the insertion of paragraph 3.5.1. that is the consequence of the alignment between UN Regulation No. 54 and UN Regulation No. 109. This new requirement regarding the marking position in the sidewall for retreaded tyres is creating a burden for the retread industry that will potentially need to adapt all their moulds accordingly, without considering transitional provisions.

78. The World Forum considered the draft amendments under agenda items 4.6.1, 4.6.3, 4.6.4 and 4.6.6 to 4.6.8. and recommended their submission to AC.1 for voting.

79. The World Forum recalled that it had accepted the request of the GRBP Chair to postpone to the June 2022 session consideration of the draft amendments under agenda items 4.6.2 and 4.6.9 (see para 60. above).

80. The representative of ETRTO proposed a modification to the draft amendments in ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2022/7 under agenda item 4.6.5 (WP.29-186-07). The representatives of the European Commission and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland commented on the ETRTO proposal. Based on the received comments, the World Forum requested ETRTO to revise WP.29-186-07 and decided to postpone consideration of the draft amendments in ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2022/7 to the June 2022 session. In the interim, the World Forum requested the secretariat to arrange a written consultation of GRBP experts on the ETRTO proposal.

Proposal to avoid placing requirements in the Definitions section and to facilitate the text by making use of the definition of “service description” that was introduced by Supplement 24.

17. GRBP recalled that, at its previous session, it decided to continue consideration of ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRBP/2021/13 in view of other draft amendments to UN Regulation No. 54 (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRBP/72, para. 16). The expert from ETRTO tabled a proposal that aimed to consolidate the calculation of reference dimensions with that provided in United Nations Global Technical Regulation (UN GTR) No. 16 (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRBP/2022/6).

18. GRBP adopted ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRBP/2022/6 and ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRBP/2021/13, as amended by GRBP-75-31-Rev.2, and requested the secretariat to submit it for consideration and vote at the June 2022 sessions of WP.29 and AC.1 as draft Supplement 25 to the original series of amendments to UN Regulation No. 54.

16. The expert from ETRTO reported on their ongoing assessment (GRBP-75-22) of the new definition of “radial tyre” that had been proposed by the experts from France and EC at the previous session (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRBP/2021/9). GRBP looked forward to the outcome of the ETRTO activities and expected that a final proposal would be submitted to the next session. The experts from the Netherlands and Russian Federation pointed out that the radial tyre definition may not necessarily cover new types of tyre structures and that adding a new subgroup of tyres with their own definition should be considered as an alternative.

Proposal to remove an inconsistency in the marking provisions and extend production of the “regroovable” symbol or word “REGROOVABLE” beyond moudling (i.e., enable use of other technologies) for tyres that can be regrooved and to consolidate the calculation of reference dimensions with that provided in GTR 16 to allow measuring tyres with size designations listed in Annex 5 on rims whose width code differs from the measuring rim width code listed in the tables of Annex 5.

17. GRBP recalled that, at its previous session, it decided to continue consideration of ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRBP/2021/13 in view of other draft amendments to UN Regulation No. 54 (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRBP/72, para. 16). The expert from ETRTO tabled a proposal that aimed to consolidate the calculation of reference dimensions with that provided in United Nations Global Technical Regulation (UN GTR) No. 16 (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRBP/2022/6).

18. GRBP adopted ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRBP/2022/6 and ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRBP/2021/13, as amended by GRBP-75-31-Rev.2, and requested the secretariat to submit it for consideration and vote at the June 2022 sessions of WP.29 and AC.1 as draft Supplement 25 to the original series of amendments to UN Regulation No. 54.

Proposal to align the definitions of “diagonal” or “bias-ply” and “bias belted” tyre structures to the definitions given in UNvR30 and R75, to improve the text with regard to description of the composition of the size designation for metric tyres, and to resolve an apparent contradiction regarding the prefixes IF and VF.

19. GRBP considered a proposal that had been prepared by the expert from ETRTO with the aim to align the definitions of “diagonal”, “bias-ply” and “bias belted” tyre structures with the definitions in UN Regulations Nos. 30 and 75 (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRBP/2022/7). GRBP adopted the proposal and requested the secretariat to submit it for consideration and vote at the June 2022 sessions of WP.29 and AC.1 as draft Supplement 20 to UN Regulation No. 106.