7. The secretariat introduced GRPE-86-04 and reported on relevant items discussed during the 84th annual session of the Inland Transport Committee, in particular with respect to decision 34.© where ITC “invited its Working Parties to submit to the secretariat until 14 October 2022 their ongoing contributions, future plans and suggestions in support of climate change mitigation”, and decision 48. where ITC “requested WP.5 to take into consideration the new trend towards electric charging infrastructure and, in coordination with the chairs of the relevant working parties, to prepare a first assessment of issues that need addressing in the realm of the ITC to be presented at the 85th session of the ITC” .

8. GRPE agreed to let the GRPE leadership team coordinates inputs on its behalf on those two requests from ITC. The Chair and secretariat prepared a draft contribution to be submitted to ITC (GRPE-86-47). GRPE also invited the Informal Working Groups (IWGs) on Electric Vehicles and the Environment and on Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) to contribute to the relevant topic, if appropriate. The Chair also invited any interested party to approach him in case they would want to provide inputs to any of these documents.

9. The secretariat informed about relevant items discussed during the 186th sessions of the World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations (WP.29). He referred to ECE/TRANS/WP.29/1164 for further details.

10. The representative from France asked further information on the request from WP.29 for each GR to perform a screening of UN Regulations, GTRs and Rules with regards to their fitness for Automated Driving Systems (ADS), incl. for driverless systems, and asked whether a dedicated task force would be needed, as done by other GRs. The representative from the US raised the questions about how ADS systems will impact typical driving behaviours, in terms of speed, acceleration. The representative from OICA shared a concrete example where regulation would need to be amended to give the permission for autonomous vehicle to drive emission test cycles. The representative from the European Commission (EC) stated she was hesitant to create a dedicated task force on this topic, given the workload of GRPE and invited GRPE to consider the best time to do it in the future.

11. The Chair invited all interested parties to provide a list of potential impacted regulations by ADS, to be shared as informal documents during the next session of GRPE in January 2023.