UNITED

NATIONS

Distr.

Economic and Social	GENERAL

Council	TRANS/WP.29/649
16 February 1999
ENGLISH

Original: ENGLISH

and FRENCH

ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR EUROPE

INLAND TRANSPORT COMMITTEE

Working Party on the Construction of Vehicles

DRAFT SUPPLEMENT 17 TO THE 03 SERIES OF AMENDMENTS

TO REGULATION No. 37

(Filament lamps)

Note: The text reproduced below was adopted by the Administrative Committee (AC.1) of the amended 1958 Agreement at its tenth session, following the recommendation by the Working Party at its one-hundred-and-sixteenth session. It is based on document TRANS/WP.29/1998/51, as amended by the Working Party (RANS/WP.29/640, para. 160).

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GE.99-

Contents, Annex 1, amend to read (deleting also sheets S4 and inserting a new footnote */)

"Annex 1

Sheets R2

Sheets H1

Sheets H2

Sheets H3

Sheets H4

Sheets P21W	(only for signalling lamps)

Sheet P21/4W	(only for signalling lamps)

Sheets P21/5W	(only for signalling lamps)

Sheet R5W	(only for signalling lamps)

Sheet R10W	(only for signalling lamps)

Sheet C5W	(only for signalling lamps)

Sheets C21W	(only for signalling lamps)

Sheet T4W	(only for signalling lamps)

Sheet W5W	(only for signalling lamps)

Sheet W3W	(only for signalling lamps)

Sheets S1 and S2

Sheet S3

Sheets HS1

Sheets HS2

Sheets PY21W	(only for signalling lamps)

Sheet H6W	(only for signalling lamps)

Sheets HB3

Sheets HB4

Sheet T1.4W	(only for signalling lamps)

Sheets H7

Sheets H27W/1 and H27W/2

Sheets P27W	(only for signalling lamps)

Sheets P27/7W	(only for signalling lamps)

Sheet WY5W	(only for signalling lamps)

Sheets H21W	(only for signalling lamps)

Sheets W21W	(only for signalling lamps)

Sheets W21/5W	(only for signalling lamps)

Sheets W2.3W	(only for signalling lamps)

Sheets H8

Sheets W16W	(only for signalling lamps)

Sheets HIR1 */

Sheets PY27/7W	(only for signalling lamps)

Sheets HIR2

Sheets H9 */

Sheets H10

Sheets H11

Sheets H12

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*/	HIR1 and/or H9 filament lamps shall only be permitted to produce passing beam in conjunction with the installation of headlamp cleaning device(s) conforming to Regulation No. 45. In addition, with respect to vertical inclination, the provision of paragraph 6.2.6.2.2. of Regulation No. 48, 01 series of amendments, shall not be applied when these lamps are installed.

This restriction shall apply as long as there is no general agreement on the use of levelling devices and headlamp cleaners with respect to the level of the performance of the headlamp."

The text of the Regulation,

Annex 1,

Sheets S4, should be deleted.

Sheet PY21W/1 (existing), replace by the new sheet PY21W/1.

Add at the end new sheets H12/1 to H12/3, to read:

(Pages 4-8 offset)