UNITED

NATIONS

Distr.

GENERAL

TRANS/1999/1/Add.1

20 November 1998

Original: ENGLISH

ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR EUROPE

INLAND TRANSPORT COMMITTEE

(Sixty-first session, 8-11 February 1999)

NOTES ON THE PROVISIONAL AGENDA AND SUGGESTED TIMETABLE

FOR THE COMMITTEE'S SIXTY-FIRST SESSION

Note by the secretariat

Addendum 1

11.	REGULATIONS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF	ECE/TRANS/132 and	Corr.1

VEHICLES	TRANS/WP.29/78/Rev.1/Amend.1

TRANS/WP.29/609

TRANS/WP.29/638 and Add.1

TRANS/WP.29/640

(TRANS/WP.29/641)

(ECE/RCTE/CONF./4)

(a)	Development of new Regulations annexed to the 1958 Agreement and Recommendations and updating of those existing

In relation to the Agreement of 20 March 1958, amended as from 16 October 1995, the Committee will be informed about the work carried out by the Working Party on the Construction of Vehicles (WP.29) and by its subsidiary bodies (GRPE, GRSG, GRRF, GRE, GRB, GRSP) during 1998, as reflected in the reports on the one-hundred-and-fourteenth (TRANS/WP.29/609) one-hundred-and-fifteenth (TRANS/WP.29/638) and one-hundred-and-sixteenth (TRANS/WP.29/640) sessions.

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The report of the one-hundred-and-sixteenth session refers also to the adoption of the draft programme of work for 1999-2003, including the tentative list of meetings for 1999 (TRANS/WP.29/641).

(b)	Agreement Concerning the Establishing of Global Technical Regulations for Wheeled Vehicles, Equipment and Parts which can be fitted and/or be used on Wheeled Vehicles (done at Geneva on 25 June 1998)

Referring to the reports of the Working Party on its three sessions held in 1998 (see (a) above), the Committee will be informed about developing this new Agreement (ECE/TRANS/132 and Corr.1), which has been signed to date by the United States of America on 25 June 1998.

The Committee may wish to take note of the information and invite Governments to become Contracting Parties to the Agreement.

(c)	Agreement Concerning the Adoption of Uniform Conditions for Periodical Technical Inspections of Wheeled Vehicles and the Reciprocal Recognition of such Inspections (done at Vienna on 13 November 1997)

The Committee may wish to be informed about ratifications, if any, by the signatory countries to this Agreement (ECE/RCTE/CONF./4), signalled to the secretariat by the time of the Committee's sixty-first session: the Agreement has been signed by 23 ECE member countries during and after the ECE Regional Conference on Transport and the Environment (Vienna, November 1997). To date an instrument of accession has been deposited by Estonia.

The Committee may wish to take note of the information and invite Governments to become Contracting Parties to the Agreement.

(d)	Updates to the Consolidated Resolution on the Construction of Vehicles (R.E.3)

The Committee may wish to draw the attention of Governments to document TRANS/WP.29/78/Rev.1/Amend.1, adopted by WP.29 at its one-hundred-and- fifteenth session, and the insertion in the Consolidated Resolution on the Construction of Vehicles (R.E.3) of a new Annex, containing Guidelines for the design and installation of information and communications systems in motor vehicles.

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