UNITED

NATIONS

Distr.

Economic and Social	GENERAL

Council

TRANS/WP.29/2001/41

14 August 2001

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ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR EUROPE

INLAND TRANSPORT COMMITTEE

World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations (WP.29)

(One-hundred-and-twenty-fifth session,

6-9 November 2001, agenda item 5.2.2.)

PROPOSAL FOR DRAFT SUPPLEMENT 9 TO REGULATION No. 4

(Rear registration plate illumination)

Transmitted by the Working Party on Lighting

and Light-Signalling (GRE)

Note: The text reproduced below was adopted by GRE at its forty-fourth and forty-fifth sessions, however, a decision concerning its transmission for consideration to WP.29 and AC.1 has only been taken at the forty-sixth session. It is based on documents TRANS/WP.29/GRE/2000/4, not amended, and TRANS/WP.29/GRE/2000/5, as amended (TRANS/WP.29/GRE/44, paras. 19 and 21; TRANS/WP.29/GRE/45, para. 34; TRANS/WP.29/GRE/46, para. 32).

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Paragraph 2., amend to read:

"........ or forestry tractors (120 x 165 mm) or any combination of those plates. At the choice of the applicant, it will also specify that the device may be fitted in more than one or a field of positions in relation to the space to be occupied by the registration plate; these different positions shall be indicated by the applicant in the communication form. It shall be accompanied by the following, ......."

Paragraph 7., amend to read:

"7.	Incidence of the light

The manufacturer of the illuminating device shall specify one or more or a field of positions in which the device is to be fitted in relation to the space for the registration plate; when the lamp is placed in the position(s) specified by the manufacturer the angle of incidence of the light on the surface of the plate shall not exceed 82 at any point of ........"

Annex 2, item 9., amend to read:

"9.	Concise description: 3/

Device for illuminating:	a tall plate

a wide plate

a plate for agricultural or

forestry tractor 2/

Number and category of filament lamp(s): .................

Geometrical conditions of installation (position(s) and inclination(s) of the device in relation to the space to be occupied by the registration plate and/or different inclinations of this space): ......................."

Annex 5, paragraph 1.2., amend to read:

"1.2.	For replaceable filament lamps:

when equipped with filament lamps at 6.75 V, 13.5 V or 28.0 V the luminous intensity values produced shall be corrected. The correction factor is the ratio between the reference luminous flux and the mean value of the luminous flux found at the voltage applied (6.75 V, 13.5 V or 28.0 V). The actual luminous fluxes of each filament lamp used shall not deviate more than ± 5 per cent from the mean value. Alternatively a standard filament lamp may be used in turn, in each of the individual positions, operated at its reference flux, the individual measurements in each position being added together."

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