32. The Chair of GRRF informed WP.29 about the results achieved by GRRF during its seventy-seventh and seventy-eighth sessions (for more details see the session’s reports ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRRF/77 and ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRRF/78).

33. On behalf of GRRF, [the GRRF chair] recommended the establishment of the draft global technical regulation (gtr) on tyres into the Global Registry, on the basis of ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2013/63, as amended by ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2014/83 and WP.29‑164-04. He also recommended amending the final report on Phase I on the development of the gtr (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2013/122) as indicated in WP.29-164-04. He announced that France had indicated that it would not sponsor Phase II of the gtr.

34. The Chair of GRRF announced the submission by GRRF of the updated ToR of the Informal Working Group on Automatic Coupling Vehicles (ACV), as reproduced in the session’s report (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRRF/78, Annex II), renaming it Modular Vehicle Combinations (MVC) and expanding its mandate.

35. On behalf of GRRF, [the GRRF chair] sought the guidance of WP.29 on the way to address proposals permitting highway autopilot and valet parking. On this subject, WP.29 referred back to its discussion on autonomous vehicles under agenda item 2.4 (para. 21 above).

36. WP.29 noted that Mr. B. Frost (United Kingdom) was re-elected as Chair and Mr. H. Kubota (Japan) as Vice-Chair for the GRRF sessions of 2015.