© Kostiantyn Zharov, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Head of the Center of Conformity Assess-ment of Vehicles and Researches of the Technical Regulation System, ORCID: 0000-0003-0552-5239, e-mail: kzharov@insat.org.ua; © Antonina Prokhorova-Glibova, lead engineer of the Department of Researches of the Technical Regulation System, e-mail: aprokhorova@insat.org.ua; © Natalia Zhuravel, 1st category engineer of the Department of Researches of the Technical Regula-tion System, e-mail: nzhuravel@insat.org.ua, © Larisa Stuchinska, 1st category engineer of the Department of Researches of the Technical Regulation System, e-mail: lstuchinska@insat.org.ua (SE «State Road Transport Research Institute»)
REQUIREMENTS TO VEHICLE’S DESIGN: UKRAINIAN AND GLOBAL TRENDS DOI: 10.33868/0365-8392-2024-4-281-88-100
Abstract. The article describes the current state of the technical regulation system in the field of vehicles and outlines the main directions of development of this system. Practical recommendations are provided for improving the require-ments for the design of vehicles and the further development of conformity assessment procedures. The main aspects that affect the safety of the road transport industry and the intensity of the industry’s negative impact on the environment are shown. Attention is also focused on the place that vehicle design safety requirements have among all other factors that affect the safety of the industry. The relevance of the issues of technical regulation in the field of vehicles is substantiated and the connection of the need to carry out this activity with the social, economic and environmental aspects of people’s lives and the quality of life is shown. The scope of activities of the UN’ World Forum for the harmonization of vehicle regulations WP.29 and the connection of this activity with the establishment of norms and procedures for assessing the conformity of vehicles in Ukraine are presented. International agreements administered by WP.29 are listed. Recommendations are given regarding the future scientific interaction of Ukraine with the bodies of WP.29. A comparative analysis of the main provisions of the regulatory legal acts of Ukraine with the relevant provisions of the EU legislative acts is provided. The main provisions of the Constitution of Ukraine, in accordance with which the system of regulatory legal acts is built, are outlined, with a focus on the unaccounted provisions of the EU acts. The main provi-sions of international UN Agreements are given, which establish the framework for procedures for assessing the conform-ity of the design and technical condition of vehicles. At the same time, considerable attention is paid to substantiating the expediency of Ukraine’s accession to the “1998 UN Global Agreement”. The connection between the achieved scientific results at the global level, presented in the form of global technical regulations established within the framework of the 1998 UN Global Agreement, and the regulatory acts implemented in the form of UN Regulations annexed to the 1958 Geneva Agreement and implemented in the legislation of many countries of the world, including the EU Member States, is shown. Keywords: technical regulation, conformity assessment, 1958 Geneva Agreement, 1998 Global Agreement, vehicle, UN Regulations, UN global technical regulations.
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