The 70th GRPE session is scheduled to be held in Geneva, starting on Monday, 12 January 2015, from 2.30 p.m. until Friday, 16 January 2015, at 12.30 p.m., subject to the confirmation by the secretariat (to be confirmed via the eventual publication of document GRPE-70-01). Interpretation would be provided from 13 January to 16 January 2015.
40. The Chair of the IWG on EVE introduced GRPE-70-23 providing information about the decisions of WP.29 in March 2014 on the activities of the IWG on EVE and reporting on the Part A work in each topic area of the new EVE mandate. China would lead the work item on the method of stating energy consumption. USA and Canada would lead the work on the battery performance and durability provisions. Germany and Korea would lead the work on the determination of the power of electric vehicles. The group was targeting fall 2015 to complete this phase of work.
41. GRPE acknowledged the progress of the Group and noted the request for a meeting room during the GRPE week in June 2015.