UNITED

NATIONS

Distr.

Economic and Social	GENERAL

Council	TRANS/WP.29/763
31 January 2001

ENGLISH

Original: ENGLISH

and FRENCH

ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR EUROPE

INLAND TRANSPORT COMMITTEE

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

DRAFT 02 SERIES OF AMENDMENTS	TO REGULATION No. 1

(Headlamps (R2 and HS1))

Note: The text reproduced below was adopted by the Administrative Committee (AC.1) of the amended 1958 Agreement at its sixteenth session, following the recommendation by WP.29 at its one-hundred-and-twenty-second session. It is based on document TRANS/WP.29/1998/43, as amended (TRANS/WP.29/743, para. 167).

__________

GE.01-

Insert new paragraphs 14. to 14.7., to read:

"14.	TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS

14.1.	As from six months after the official date of entry into force of Regulation No. [112] */, Contracting Parties applying this Regulation shall cease to grant ECE approvals according to this Regulation.

14.2.	Contracting Parties applying this Regulation shall not refuse to grant extensions of approval to this and any previous series of amendments of this Regulation.

14.3.	Approvals granted under this Regulation before the date of entry into force of Regulation No. [112] */ and all extensions of approvals, including those to a preceding series of amendments to this Regulation granted subsequently, shall remain valid indefinitely.

14.4.	Contracting Parties applying this Regulation shall continue to issue approvals for headlamps on the basis of this and any previous series of amendments to this Regulation, provided that the headlamps are intended as replacements for fitting to vehicles in use.

14.5.	As from the official date of entry into force of Regulation

No. [112] */, no Contracting Party applying this Regulation shall prohibit the fitting on a new vehicle type of a headlamp approved under Regulation No. [112] */.

14.6.	Contracting Parties applying this Regulation shall continue to allow fitting on a vehicle type or vehicle of a headlamp approved to this Regulation.

14.7.	Contracting Parties applying this Regulation shall continue to allow fitting or use on a vehicle in use of a headlamp approved to this Regulation as amended by any previous series of amendments, provided that the headlamp is intended for replacement."

______________

_______________________

*/	The number of the Regulation (proposed in document TRANS/WP.29/773) shall be confirmed after its entry into force.