The Vehicle Standards Harmonisation Sub-group aims to promote the harmonisation of road vehicle regulations for safety and emissions with international requirements together with mutual recognition arrangements to facilitate trade of automotive product in APEC. The sub-group is chaired by Mr Kwang Youl Park, Korea, and Mr Allan Jonas, Australia (Deputy Chair).

• Where applicable, economies to develop action plans, including timelines, to incorporate UNECE Regulations and Global Technical Regulations (GTRs) for motor vehicles into domestic legislation.
• VSHG to assist in capacity building to support efforts of economies in harmonizing regulations and developing certification and regulatory systems.
• VSHG to provide a forum for knowledge transfer to improve transparency of vehicle regulations and associated processes under the 1958 and 1998 agreements.
• In parallel, VSHG’s efforts shall complement the development of GTRs and the human resource development efforts of JASIC in providing detailed technical training on UNECE Regulations.

Intersessional papers

• No papers were submitted.

Papers for the next meeting

35th:

• Next Meeting

Papers from the last Meeting

34th:

Final Report:

• TPTWG34 LEG-VSHG Final Report (Word Document)

Other Documents:

• 4.1_Overall Status of recent UNECEWP29 sessions_Korea (PPT)
• 4.3_Status of adopted ECE Regulations of each economy_Korea (PPT)
• 5.1_Latest discussion about International Whole Vehicle Type Approval_Japan (PPT)
• 5.2_Pole Side Impact Test-The Safety case_Australia (PPT)
• 5.3_Progress Report on Vehicle Safety Testing Regulations in Chinese Taipei_Chinese Taipei (PPT)
• 5.4_ASEAN-JAPAN cooperation on development of technical regulations and establishment of type approval system for vehicle_Japan (PPT)
• 6.1_Development in Environmental Standards in Australia_Australia (PPT)

Reference Documents and Links

• No papers were submitted.

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