- Chairman said it was not his intention to have final agreement on this today but to exchange views in order to have a document to be submitted in June (GRPE).
- IMMA suggested the potential need for sub-groups to be mentioned in the ToR, and added that the timing foreseen (2016) seems challenging.
- The chairman replied that the timeline needs to be discussed within the group. Regarding the need for subgroups
the chairman argued for a simple structure where ad-hoc groups could be formed based on the need
during the work (see agenda item #7).
- India commented that the timeline is connected to the scope. If the entire L-category would be in the scope, finishing the work in 2016 will be difficult.
- As outlined in their position document (EPPR-01-06e) Japan supports the amendments (Inf.doc.GRPE-64-26) that UK submitted at last GRPE and would like to amend 2© as follows;
- UK said they put trust on the chairman to put that trough.
- It was generally agreed that the ToR text is acceptable however the document will be discussed and decided at the next meeting of the IWG in April before submitted to GRPE.