2. Mr. Rijnders, Chair of GRPE, opened the meeting, held as hybrid session, with all participants attending virtually because of the still on-going sanitary situation, and welcomed the participants.

3. GRPE adopted the provisional agenda of the eighty-fifth session (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRPE/2022/1), as updated and consolidated in GRPE-85-05-Rev.2, and GRPE-85-06-Rev.1 as a tentative running order.

4. The informal documents distributed before and during the GRPE session are listed in Annex I of the session report. Annex II lists the informal meetings held in conjunction with this GRPE session. Annex III lists IWGs of GRPE, task forces and subgroups, giving details on their Chairs, Secretaries and the end of their mandates.

5. The secretariat introduced GRPE-85-08, announcing details for the next GRPE session. Following a request from the representatives from the UK, GRPE agreed to move the next session forward by one day. After consultation with colleagues to swap meetings (thanking them for their flexibility) and with conference services, the secretariat confirmed the next session would start on Monday 30 May 2022 at 2.00 p.m. and finish on Thursday 2 June 2022 at 12.30 p.m. He informed GRPE the corresponding deadline for the submission of official documents would therefore be Monday 7 March 2022.