The Chairman of SGR0 explained the paper “Progress towards an International Whole Vehicle Type Approval Scheme” (doc.No. WP.29-161-17) to be submitted to WP.29 in the following week.
The Russian Federation asked about the permanent working group to oversee UN R0 mentioned in the paper from the viewpoints of its organization (new or existing one) and budgetary background. The Chairman of SGR0 responded that it would be necessary to consider the issues by the Sub-group.
Germany reminded the Sub-group members of its proposal submitted to the 9th IWVTA Informal Group meeting back in March 2012 to establish a permanent group for the IWVTA process (refer to doc.No. IWVTA-09-06). Germany continued that establishing a permanent informal group linked to WP.29 and AC1 might be a practical approach and that it had an intention to submit a document on this issue at the next Sub-group meeting.
EC recommended attaching a hyperlink to doc .No. IWVTA-SGR0-08-13 (the latest version of draft UN R0) at the last slide of this paper.
The Chairman of SG58 explained the paper “Review of the 1958 Agreement” (doc. No. WP.29-161-16) to be submitted to WP.29 in the following week.