25. GRE was informed that the Global Forum for Road Traffic Safety (WP.1), at its recent session in March 2022, had completed its review of the amendments to the Vienna Convention and requested that the secretariat create a final, formal document for a possible adoption at the next session. The Government of Italy declared that it intended to formally submit this amendment proposal to the Depository, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, for dissemination to all contracting parties.

26. GRE also noted that the International Federation of Pedestrians (IFP) had submitted to WP.1 an informal document outlining its position on the safety requirements for automated vehicles (AVs) to indicate their status and to communicate their intended actions. IFP opposed the introduction of signals (optical or audible) indicating AVs intended actions to pedestrians. At the same time, IFP was not opposed to signals indicating the status of the vehicle (whether the autonomous mode is on or not) as long as pedestrians were not expected to change their behaviour in the presence of this signal.