BUSINESS PLAN CEN/TC 301 ROAD VEHICLES EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

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1 Page: 1 BUSINESS PLAN CEN/TC 301 ROAD VEHICLES EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Business Environment Europe represents about 20% of vehicles of the world market. However the automotive industry is acting globally, the international level (ISO/TC 22 Road vehicles) shall have top priority for any other standardization projects. Although vehicles are designed for global sales, European market may require specific technical specifications which ones are most frequently induced by existing EU regulations and particularly by the European Commission Mandates. Usually European Commission offers mandates to the European standardization organization, regarding the automotive issues, with the exception of CEN/TC 301, there is no general technical committee dealing with automotive standardization; therefore, the scope of this TC has been consequently adapted to welcome the technical work decided by CEN through these mandates. Involved sectors: general public, industry, reparation, transport, energy, communication vehicle/infrastructure, European Governments, European Commission); Parties involved: Vehicle manufacturers; Vehicle repairers; Vehicle users: consumers, administrations, companies; Services and ITS (Intelligent Transport System) operators Environmental, Consumers representatives; Public authorities. Benefits To define the necessary standards to be used to reply European Commission mandates or in European regulations. Confidence of consumers in respect of security, safety, quality, interoperability and ergonomics, The need of European governments to reinforce safety, environmental issues, free competition and to ensure interoperability. Priorities To use as often as possible the CEN / ISO Vienna Agreement to develop Standards which become international standards and conversely to implement ISO standards as EN.

2 Page: 2 1 BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT OF THE CEN/TC Description of the Business Environment The following political, economic, technical, regulatory, legal and social dynamics describe the business environment of the industry sector, products, materials, disciplines or practices related to the scope of the CEN/TC 301, and they may significantly influence how the relevant standards development processes are conducted and the content of the resulting standards: The road vehicle has known an uninterrupted advance in technology to improve the performances of the product and offer to its various clients a mobility package as efficient as possible at the lowest cost possible. Since the 80 s, though, political demand for a greater safety in transportation and a reduced environmental impact of the use of road vehicles has deeply influenced the orientation of this technological evolution. Some major technological leaps forward have been accomplished in this period of thirty years, both in safety and environment. Due to the European Commission requirements which are foreseen to move along with the technical progress, so that new outstanding developments are already planned and will happen in the very next years. Until now, the road vehicle standardization has been internationally developed through ISO. Even so is in selected area a need to specified European standards requested by the European Commission. Therefore a European counterpart of ISO/TC 22 is needed with which the CEN/ISO Vienna Agreement will be used to facilitate technical co-operation. The scope of CEN/TC 301 it is adapted accordingly. So that, the major trends of today are: - The growing need to care for indirect environment impacts of road vehicles during their life cycle that is their energy consumption and their ability to be recycled. - The gradual integration of telecommunications and information technologies on board the road vehicle, which begun some years ago and has not reached its full extension yet. This integration in the vehicle is complemented by wider scale networks and systems dealt with other standardization bodies. Electronic systems to enhance the stability of vehicles or to predict and mitigate collisions are in rapid evolution in view of their collision management; not only vehicle producers are interested in this process. It is obviously also true for the industry as close as the suppliers of parts and subsystems for the vehicle manufacturers, the manufacturers for those vehicles that are built in several stages from a base vehicle, the maintenance and repair services enterprises, and the manufacturers of testing facilities, control, repair and dismantling equipment or tools. In parallel to the standardization, road vehicles must follow regulatory and legal issues such as: Design regulations have been implemented since the very beginning of the 20th century to care for the crucial safety aspects of the use of vehicles, in every industrialized country. In the 1950s began international discussions to harmonize these national regulations. In 1953 a subgroup of the Economy and Social Council of the United Nations Organization was created, named Working Party (WP) 29, to deal with road motor vehicles and their trailers. WP29 drafted an international harmonization agreement, later referred to as the 1958 Agreement. Regulations on several aspects of the design of road vehicles have been internationally adopted and annexed to the 1958 Agreement, implemented in various countries of the world, and updated according to technical progress and political demand. The number of regulations exceeds now a hundred and fifteen, in three fields: safety, environment, and security.

3 Page: 3 In the field of periodical testing of vehicles in use, WP29 decided upon an international agreement to harmonize testing procedures and requirements, referred as the 1997 Agreement. This agreement entered into force in 2000 and will result in harmonized regulations, of which 12 GTR already exist. At a regional level, the European Community decided by the Treaty of Rome in 1957 to ensure the free circulation of goods, and especially to harmonize design requirements of goods, including road vehicles. A European framework directive on harmonized approval of road vehicles was published in This framework of type approval directive governs today more than fifty separate directives for design requirements of road vehicles, some of them close to corresponding regulations of the 1958 Agreement. Conformity to these requirements allows a vehicle to be sold in the all States of the Community. In 1998, these technical requirements became mandatory for passenger cars in the Community. Other categories of road vehicles were committed to comply also. It must be noted that EC also signed the UN agreements of 1958 and Quantitative Indicators of the Business Environment The following list of quantitative indicators describes the business environment in order to provide adequate information to support actions of the CEN /TC 301. The following figures are given under international basis (From various sources, as CCFA, OICA, WTO, etc.): In 2012, the world automotive market continued to grow (+5% to 81.8 million vehicles), setting a new record. 3/8

4 Page: 4 Leader for many years, since 2010 the European Union (27 countries) has become the world s second production zone, whilst remaining open. The collapse of its domestic market since 2008 explains the reduction of imports as well as production.

5 Page: 5 After falling by 31% in 2009 due to the crisis, world trade of products from the automotive industry, according to the WTO, continued to recover (+17% in 2011, following +29% in 2010). It stood at US$1,287 billion, exceeding the previous record, set in 2008, by 4%. Between 2005 and 2011, however very different changes were detected between countries and regions in the balances of products from the automotive industry. 5/8

6 Page: 6 2 BENEFITS EXPECTED FROM THE WORK OF THE CEN/TC 301 The vehicle industry is a world-wide industry and the implementation of international standards should limit the cost of producing vehicles and their parts. In every country the construction of the vehicles is widely regulated but the harmonization of the regulations is under way at the UN WP29 whose 1958 agreement, which is open to every country and paved the way for the 1998 agreement. Therefore, specific needs from European Commission may generate new standardization subjects as for example the automotive repair information which regulation EURO 5 and 6 (new emission regulation) will refer to. 3 PARTICIPATION IN THE CEN/TC 301 All the CEN national members are entitled to nominate delegates to CEN Technical Committees and experts to Working Groups, ensuring a balance of all interested parties. Participation as observers of recognized European or international organizations is also possible under certain conditions. To participate in the activities of this CEN/TC, please contact the national standards organization in your country. 4 OBJECTIVES OF THE CEN/TC 301 AND STRATEGIES FOR THEIR ACHIEVEMENT 4.1 Defined objectives of the CEN/TC Take full responsibility and ensure European involvement for handling work items relating to road vehicles and their equipment according to European Commission mandates. Produce cost-effective standards, which correspond to user and market needs, in due time Support the technical progress of the sector. 4.2 Identified strategies to achieve the CEN/TC 301 The CEN/TC 301 will propose the transfer some of ISO standards dealing with road vehicle as EN standards. Any work duplication between CEN/TC 301 and ISO/TC 22 shall be avoided. The work initiated through the mandates to CEN will be considered, if there is common opportunity with ISO, under the CEN/ISO Vienna agreement. 4.3 Environmental aspects 1) As still mentioned, the scope of work covered by the CEN/TC 301 is the preparation of road vehicle European Standards answering essentially to European Commission/EFTA mandates. Since the automotive industry is acting globally, the international level (ISO/TC 22 Road vehicles) shall have top priority for any other standardization projects. The environmental issues associated with this scope are thus to be defined for each mandate. 2) For each New Work Item Proposal (NWIP) and the related formatted resolution when new work item is adopted by the CEN/TC 301 to reply a mandate, the environmental issues are listed at each stage of the product life-cycle (acquisition, production, use and end-of-life) and objectives are defined for these identified environmental issues. 3) The reports built by the Working Groups for the TC 301 plenaries have to inform of progress in achieving these objectives.

7 Page: 7 5 FACTORS AFFECTING COMPLETION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CEN/TC 301 WORK PROGRAMME The European Commission needs might not necessarily be in suitability of the international stakeholders. 6 EUROPEAN PUBLICATIONS FOR THE CEN/TC 301 This section gives in Table 1 a list of European Publications that have been published by the CEN/TC and standards under development. The information whether or not their references have been published in the Official Journal of the European Communities. In Table 2 the ISO corresponding standard when referenced. Table 1 - European Developments and Publications EN EN EN EN EN EN EN EN : 2012 EN Tyre pressure measuring instruments - Devices for inspection of pressure and/or inflation / Deflation of tyres for motor vehicles - Metrology, requirements and testing Tyre Pressure Management Systems and Tyre Pressure Gauges - Interoperability between TPMS/vehicle and TPG - Interfaces and Requirements Supplementary grip devices for tyre of passenger cars light and light duty vehicles Safety requirements and test methods Road vehicles Standardized access to automotive repair and maintenance information (RMI) Part 1: General Information and Use Case Definition Road vehicles Standardized access to automotive repair and maintenance information (RMI) Part 2: Technical requirements Road vehicles Standardized access to automotive repair and maintenance information (RMI) Part 3: Functional user interface requirements Road vehicles Standardized access to automotive repair and maintenance information (RMI) Part 4: Conformance test Road vehicles Standardized repair and maintenance information (RMI) terminology Part 1: General information and use case definition Road vehicles Standardized repair and maintenance information (RMI) terminology Part 2: Standardized process implementation requirements, Registration authority Standards subject to enquiries for revision or withdrawal EN 12736:2001 EN :2001 Electrically propelled road vehicles - Airborne acoustical noise of vehicle during charging with on-board chargers - Determination of sound power level Electrically propelled road vehicles - Measurement of emissions of hybrid vehicles - Part 1: Thermal electric hybrid vehicles EN 13447:2001 Electrically propelled road vehicles - Terminology 7/8

8 Page: 8 EN :1996 EN :1999 EN :1997 EN :2001 EN :1997 EN :1997 EN :1998 Electrically propelled road vehicles - Measurement of road operating ability - Part 1: Pure electric vehicles Electrically propelled road vehicles - Measurement of road operating ability Part 2: Thermal electric hybrid vehicles Electrically propelled road vehicles - Measurement of energy performances Part 1: Pure electric vehicles Electrically propelled road vehicles - Measurement of energy performances - Part 2: Thermal electric hybrid vehicles Electrically propelled road vehicles - Specific requirements for safety - Part 1: On board energy storage Electrically propelled road vehicles - Specific requirements for safety - Part 2: Functional safety means and protection against failures Electrically propelled road vehicles - Specific requirements for safety - Part 3: Protection of users against electrical hazards Table 2 European Referenced ISO Publications ISO ISO :2013 ISO ISO ISO ISO ISO ISO ISO ISO Electrically propelled road vehicles Connection to an external electric power supply Safety requirements 1: General information and use-case definition 2: Network and application protocol requirements Road vehicles Vehicle to grid Communication Interface Part 3: Physical and data link layer requirements 4: Network and application protocol conformance test 5: Physical layer and data link layer conformance test 6: General information and use case definition for wireless communication 7: Network and application protocol requirements for wireless communication 8: Physical layer and data link layer requirements for wireless communication Electrically propelled mopeds and motorcycles Safety requirements for conductive connection to an external electric power supply