Proposal for a Council Decision on the position to be taken by the European Union within the relevant Committees of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe regarding the adaptation to technical progress of Regulations Nos 11, 13H, 30, 44, 49, 54, 64, 101, 106 and 121 and regarding the adaptation to technical progress of Global Technical Regulation No 1 concerning door locks and retention components of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe

At international level, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) develops harmonised requirements, intended to remove technical barriers to the trade in motor vehicles between the Contracting Parties to the Revised 1958 Agreement and to ensure that such vehicles offer a high level of safety and environmental protection.

The meetings of UNECE WP29, the World Forum for Harmonisation of Vehicle Regulations, are held three times per year. In each meeting session new amendments to existing UNECE Regulations or Global Technical Regulations are adopted in order to allow for technical progress.

Subsequently in a WP29 meeting the final vote for adoption of the amendments, supplements and corrigenda are made, providing the quorum is reached and there is a qualified majority among contracting parties. The EU is contracting party to 2 Agreements under WP29 and votes on behalf of the Member States. A Council Decision, containing the list of amendments, supplements and corrigenda, is prepared each time and permits the Commission to vote on behalf of Member States in each WP29 meeting.

This Council Decision defines the Union's position in the voting of the amendments, supplements and corrigenda submitted for vote in the June 2012 WP29 meeting.

EUR-Lex: COM(2012)263: Follow the progress of this document through the decision-making procedure http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2012:263:FIN

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