Saudi Arabia: New eCall requirements for vehicles

 

The Saudi Standards, Metrology and Quality Organization (SASO) has prepared a draft of the updated standard SASO 2944 , for “Motor vehicle – Technical Requirements for Emergency Calls “eCall” which concerned with development of technical requirements for emergency calls system in the motor vehicle.

This standard regulates the Emergency calls and Connectivity Technical Requirements for new light duty vehicle (LDVs) imported to KSA.

The major changes related to this standard are:

– Inclusion of the 4G requirements and references;

– Exemption of the vehicles produced in small series with an aggregated volume of less than 75 vehicles annually to be equipped with an eCall in-vehicle system;

– Postponement of the application date of the standard to be starting from 01/01/2027.

The eCall is defined in the standard as “emergency call that is made either automatically via activation of in-vehicle sensors or manually by the vehicle occupants; when activated , it provides notification and relevant location information to the most appropriate Public Safety Answering Point, by means of mobile wireless communications network ‘, and carries a defined standardized Minimum Set of Data, notifying that there has been an incident that requires response from the emergency services and establishes an audio channel between the occupants of the vehicle and the most appropriate Public Safety Answering Point.”

The full text of the proposed rule can be found HERE.

To find out more about vehicle regulations in Saudi Arabia, please contact the Product Compliance Institute directly.