GRE proposal to amend the transitional provisions to cease granting new type approvals for the “Sealed Beam” headlamps and to correct the title of UN Regulation No. 31.

[Proposal adopted.]

Summary of Canada’s acceptance of certain UN Regulations in whole or in part as alternatives to the requirements of Canada Motor Vehicle Safety Standards.

43. The World Forum noted the status of the 1958 Agreement (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/343/Rev.21) at 15 February 2013. From that date, a list of modifications to the original status document would be available in the document: “Related list of modifications of the informal updated version of ECE/TRANS/WP.29/343/Rev.21”. Both documents will be available on the WP.29 website. The World Forum acknowledged the considerable work done by Ms. L. Bachelard in keeping the status document updated, which is important for the well-functioning of the Agreement. WP.29 noted the unilateral application of certain UN Regulations by Canada (WP.29-159-03), as well as the communications concerning Technical Services of the Slovak Republic (WP.29-159-05), of the Czech Republic (WP.29-159-09) and of Belgium (WP.29-159-23). The secretariat reported that the European Union had initiated the process for the application of UN Regulations Nos. 29 and 61 and that the Republic of Korea was in the process of ceasing the application of the UN Regulations in force. As soon as the Office of Legal Affairs (OLA) had issued the corresponding Depositary Notifications, the status of the Agreement document would be updated consequently.

Text prepared by the International Automotive Lighting and Light Signalling Expert Group (GTB) to amend the transitional provisions to cease granting new type approvals for the “Sealed Beam” headlamps and to correct the title of UN Regulation No. 31.

22. The expert from GTB introduced ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRE/2013/5, proposing to cease the granting of new type approvals to the “Sealed Beam” headlamps and to correct the title of Regulation No. 31. The expert from Italy introduced GRE-69-37 amending the original proposal. He also introduced GRE-69-38 proposing similar amendments to Regulations Nos. 53 and 74. GRE requested the secretariat to distribute GRE-69-38 with an official symbol at its October 2013 session. GRE adopted ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRE/2013/5 as amended by Annex VII to the report and requested the secretariat to submit it to WP.29 and AC.1 for consideration at their November 2013 sessions as draft (see paras. 6, 7, 9, 11, 15 and 16):

(a) new 03 series of amendments to Regulation No. 5;
(b) new 03 series of amendments to Regulation No. 31;
(c) Supplement 3 to the 06 series of amendments to Regulation No. 48.

Proposal to amend the title of UN R31 by inserting “Halogen” and using the abbreviation “HSB” in order to distiguish the regulation from UN R5. In its justification, GTB also raises the “freezing” of both these regulations as they relate to outdated technologies for future consideration.

33. The expert from GTB introduced ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRE/2012/33, proposing to amend the title of the regulation. GTB volunteered to check a number of UN Regulations that are not used anymore for new type and to prevent their use in the future. GRE agreed to resume consideration at its April 2013 session.

Text adopted by the Working Party on Lighting and Light-Signalling (GRE) to update the definition of “type”.

Proposal unanimously adopted.