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GENERAL

TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2000/2

28 January 2000

Original: ENGLISH

ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR EUROPE

INLAND TRANSPORT COMMITTEE

Working Party on the Construction of Vehicles

Working Party on General Safety Provisions (GRSG)

(Seventy-eighth session, 10-14 April 2000,

agenda item 1.)

PROPOSAL FOR AN ADDITIONAL AMENDMENT TO THE

PROPOSAL FOR A DRAFT AMENDMENTS TO REGULATION No. 36

(Public service vehicles)

(TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/1999/20)

Transmitted by the Expert from the International Organization

of Motor Vehicle Manufacturers (OICA)

Note: The text reproduced below was prepared by the expert from OICA in order to amend paragraph 3.6.1. of the proposed annex 7 to Regulation No. 36. It refers to document TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/1999/20 and it is based on a document distributed without a symbol (informal document No. 11) during the seventy- seventh session of GRSG (TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/56, para. 8).

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Note: This document is distributed to the Experts on General Safety Provisions only.

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Annex 7, paragraph 3.6.1., amend to read:

"3.6.1.	For each wheelchair user there shall be a wheelchair area at least 750 mm wide and 1300 mm long. The space for the wheelchair may be shortened by 150 mm from a height of at least 350 mm above floor level, at the end where the feet of the wheelchair user are. The longitudinal plane of the wheelchair area shall be parallel to the longitudinal plane of the vehicle and the floor- surface of the special area shall be slip-resistant;"

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