11. GRVA received a progress report (GRVA-12-22) from the expert of the United States of America, Co-Chair of the IWG on Functional Requirements for Automated and Autonomous Vehicles (FRAV), on the activities of the group. He introduced GRVA-12-23, highlighting the significant progress made on the draft proposal for guidelines and recommendations concerning Safety Requirements for Automated Driving Systems (ADS). He detailed the four sections of the document, the purpose, the terms and definitions, the guidelines to describe an ADS and recommendations. He explained that these draft guidelines were providing a safety driven framework.

12. GRVA went through GRVA-12-03. The Co-Chair of the IWG explained that Table 1 in the document provided recommendations that would be expended with a third column, that would include criteria against which the safety recommendations in the column one and the detailed provisions in column two could be assessed.

13. The expert from ETSC highlighted the importance of the coordination between the IWGs on FRAV and on Validation Method for Automated Driving (VMAD) and advised that the coordination meetings involving the leadership of the two groups should systematically review the user requirements as the latter were not fitting the current VMAD structure.

14. The experts from OICA and CLEPA welcomed the progress made by the IWG on FRAV.

15. GRVA requested the secretariat to submit GRVA-12-23 to WP.29 at its March 2022 session.