141. AC.3 noted the information, as of 9 November 2022, on the status of the Agreement of the Global Registry and of the Compendium of Candidates (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/1073/Rev.34), the status of the priorities of the 1998 Agreement (based on WP.29-188-08 as reproduced in Annex V to this report) and items on which the exchange of views should continue. AC.3 noted that notifications and the mandatory reports on the transposition process through their Permanent Missions in Geneva to the secretariat, are publicly accessible at: https://wiki.unece.org/display/TRAN/Home. AC.3 recalled its agreement to always send the above-mentioned reports and notifications through their Permanent Missions in Geneva and directly to the secretariat (email: edoardo.gianotti@un.org) to ensure updating of the status document, which is the monitoring tool of the agreement.

142. AC.3 warmly reiterated its request to its Contracting Parties to send the above-mentioned status report and notifications as one of the main obligations of the 1998 Agreement (Articles 7.4 to 7.4.1. of the Agreement) and be provided to the secretariat for each one-year period if action or no action had been taken in the process of transposition of UN GTRs into domestic legislations. AC.3 noted that such information would be integrated into the Status of the Agreement document and that such information would not be only administrative but also relevant to all interested parties, including the industry, to understand the type of vehicle certification needed in the different Contracting Parties to the Agreement.

143. The Chair of AC.3 welcomed Uganda, who recently became a contracting party to the 1958 and 1997 Agreements and looked forward to their active participation. The representative of the United States of America echoed the Chair and expressed the wish to support the secretariat in the outreach in discussions with potential contracting parties.

144. The representative of the United States of America congratulated the accession of Uganda to the Agreement and stated the willingness of Contracting Parties to work with the secretariat to support prospective contracting parties.

145. AC.3 endorsed ECE/TRANS/WP.29/1073/Rev.34.