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UN R28 | Amendment 5 (2018)
7 Feb 2018 2018-05-04 08:41:06 UTC 5 Original text | Supplement 5 Based upon the adopted proposal: WP.29/2017/3

Proposal to update and clarify the regulation. The proposal refines definitions, removes the “AWD” abbeviation for “audible warning device” to avoid confusion with its more common use for “all wheel drive”, modifies some administrative communications, and proposes three-direction acoustic measurements. The proposal also aims to structure the regulation to enable its application to additional sound warning devices not presently regulated at the international level, excluding acoustic vehicle alerting systems (AVAS) which will be subject to a separate regulation on minimum vehicle sound levels.

UN R28 | Amendment 6 (2020)
30 Oct 2020 2021-01-03 18:10:25 UTC 6 Original text | Supplement 6 Based upon the adopted proposal: WP.29/2020/3

Proposal to define “electronic” as a “principle of operation by electric or electro-magnetic force with amplifier and speaker or resonator”.

UN R28 (1972)
31 Oct 1972 2011-01-06 09:59:00 UTC Original text
UN R28 | Amendment 1 (1984)
21 Feb 1984 2011-01-06 10:02:29 UTC 1 Original text | Supplement 1
UN R28 | Amendment 2 (1992)
30 Oct 1992 2011-01-06 10:03:00 UTC 2 Original text | Supplement 2 Original text | Supplement 2 | Corrigendum 1
UN R28 | Amendment 3 (2001)
13 Jul 2001 2011-01-06 10:03:40 UTC 3 Original text | Supplement 3
UN R28 | Amendment 4 (2016)
5 Feb 2016 2016-02-10 10:24:14 UTC 4 Original text | Supplement 4 Based upon the adopted proposal: WP.29/2015/60

Proposal to allow vehicles to be run at idle during the test procedures and to change the minimum sound level requirement for vehicles of category M and N and motorcycles of a power greater than 7 kW from 93 dB to 87 dB.

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