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GENERAL

TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2000/13

20 July 2000

Original: ENGLISH

ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR EUROPE

INLAND TRANSPORT COMMITTEE

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

Working Party on General Safety Provisions (GRSG)

(Seventy-ninth session, 16-20 October 2000,

agenda item 6.)

PROPOSAL FOR DRAFT AMENDMENTS TO REGULATION No. 43

(Safety glazing)

Transmitted by the Expert from Spain

Note: The text reproduced below was prepared by the expert from Spain with the aim of clarifying the affixing of a plastic film to glass panes. It is based on a document distributed without a symbol (informal document No. 22) during the seventy-eighth session (TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/57 para. 56). This document refers to document TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/1999/12.

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

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A.	PROPOSAL

Annex 21,

Insert a new paragraph 2.2.1., to read:

"2.2.1.	The light transmission of a glass pane, component type approved in accordance with the requirements set out in the Regulation and bearing the appropriate type approval mark, shall not be modified subsequently through the affixing of a plastic film."

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B.	JUSTIFICATION

The addition of a plastic film, in an approved glass, is becoming customary in Spain.

It is considered by Spain that this practice invalidates the original glass approval. Therefore, it would be appropriate to indicate in the Regulation that after a glass pane approval, plastic film cannot be added.

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