Proposal to insert new paragraphs 0. and 0.1. to 0.1.2., and amend footnotes 1 and 2 in UN R18. Supplement 5 to the 03 series of amendments is introduced to take into account vehicles of categories X and Y, as well as vehicles with a manual mode operating at speeds above 6 km/h which are equipped with an Automated Driving System. The amendment extends application to vehicles without driver and without manual driving controls. In case of vehicles equipped with an ADS, in any driving mode no special provisions or exemptions apply. Footnotes are amended to reference the Consolidated Resolution on the Construction of Vehicles (R.E.3).

Proposal prepared by the Task Force on Automated Vehicles Regulatory Screening (TF-AVRS), with the aim to amend and supersede document
ECE/TRANS/GRSG/2025/14.

Proposal from the GRSG task force on Automated Vehicles Regulatory Screening to exempt vehicles without manual driving controls from provisions of UN R18 applicable only to vehicles with manual driving controls.

Proposal to ensure the recognition of approvals according to the new regulations created pursuant to the splitting of UN R116 into three new UN Regulations. The proposal corrects the unintentional omission of the reference to UN R161 in the text formally adopted by WP.29 during its March 2021 session (document WP.29/2021/23).

Proposal to ensure the recognition of approvals according to the new regulations created pursuant to the splitting of UN R116 into three new UN Regulations.

Proposal to ensure the recognition of approvals according to the new regulations created pursuant to the splitting of UN R116 into three new UN Regulations.

Proposal to clarify that the regulation applies to the type approval of anti-theft devices if fitted in the vehicle (and therefore is not meant to render such devices compulsory in vehicles).

Proposal to clarify that the regulation applies to the type approval of anti-theft devices if fitted in the vehicle (and therefore is not meant to render such devices compulsory in vehicles).

Proposal to introduce an “if fitted” clause into the regulation scope in order to clarify that installation of devices to prevent unauthorized vehicle use is not mandatory.

Text prepared by the International Organization of Motor Vehicle Manufacturers (OICA) to introduce the concept of “revision of approvals” in the UN Regulations under the responsibility of the Working Party on General Safety Provisions (GRSG).

WP.29 voted to align UN Regulation procedures with the EU Whole Vehicle Approval Directive 2007/46/EC. This document proposes revisions to regulations under the purview of GRSG per the revised UN Regulatory Procedures and Transitional Provisions (document WP.29/1044/Rev.1).