18. The Chair of GRVA introduced the inventory of best Automated Driving Systems (ADS) storage practices titled “Review of the national / regional activities and a proposed way forward for DSSAD” (WP.29-188-06), GRVA recommendations on ADS external light-signalling (WP.29-188-10) and the amendment proposal to the Framework Document on Automated Vehicles (FDAV) (WP.29-188-12). WP.29 endorsed these documents and requested the secretariat to distribute WP.29-188-06 (unchanged) and WP.29-188-12 (amending the mandate extension of the IWG on Cyber Security and Over the Air (CS/OTA) issues to November 2024), with official symbols at the next WP.29 session.

19. WP.29 reviewed WP.29-188-21, summarizing the guidance provided by AC.2 on the items raised by GRVA at its September 2022 session. Following AC.2 recommendations, (i) WP.29 recommended that GRE conducts analysis of research and establishes high level principles related to light-signalling for ADS operational status, (ii) WP.29 endorsed the amendment proposal to the table in the FDAV, (iii) WP.29 noted the coordination of work between the different GRs regarding the screening of UN Regulations and UN Global Technical Regulations (UN GTRs) as requested by WP.29 in March 2022 (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/1164, para. 30), (iv) WP.29 requested the Informal Working Group (IWG) on Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) to perform preparatory activities and to explore the potential role of WP.29 regarding to related to on Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) communication and (v) WP.29 invited GRSG and GRVA to collaborate on developing new vehicle categories (or subcategories) dedicated to ADS.

20. The expert from the United Kingdom and Great Britain, Co-Chair of the IWG on ITS, informed that the next meeting of the IWG on ITS would be organized in January or early February 2023 to perform the first preparatory activities related to V2V communication and to explore the potential role of WP.29 on this matter. He also informed WP.29 of the involvement of the leadership team of the IWG in the Future Networked Car 2023 symposium co-organized by the International Telecommunication Union and UNECE.