Speaking to agenda item 2, Ms. Marchington reviewed two decisions from the 164th WP.29 meeting relevant to the EVE group: 1) the new EVE mandate, ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2014/88 as amended by WP.29-164-15, was approved, and 2) the final version of the EVE reference Guide, ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2014/81, was also approved.

Concerning the Guide, the WP.29 Secretariat requested the EVE group to consider how the Guide should be filed on the UNECE website and presented two proposals: 1) The Guide could receive a new document number and be placed in the folder “Final documents”; or, 2) The Guide could be kept with the current symbol and be placed under “Reference material”, as well as on the homepage of WP.29 website. No preference for either proposal was expressed by the EVE group. The EVE leadership expressed a preference for option 2 and committed to following up with the WP.29 Secretariat.

ACTION 1: The EVE Secretary will inform the WP.29 Secretariat that the second proposal for filing the Guide on the UNECE website is preferable.

Ms. Marchington also reviewed the action items from the EVE-12 meeting (EVE-12-13e). Most of the 7 action items were related to the WP.29 approval of the new EVE mandate, so they were completed, or the EVE-13 meeting (see ongoing EVE-12 Action 3 below). Regarding EVE-12 Action 6 (The EVE Secretariat will edit document EVE-11-03e-Rev1 (‘path forward’ document) to incorporate the changes to the new EVE mandate outlined in EVE-12-12e and add this issue to the next EVE meeting agenda), the EVE group was informed this action item would not be addressed during the EVE-13 meeting. Upon approval of the new EVE mandate by WP.29, there does not seem to be a need for the path forward document any longer; it was useful for discussion of the new mandate, but it is now redundant. Instead, a roadmap for Part A of the new EVE mandate was developed and placed on the EVE-13 agenda for discussion (agenda item 6).

ACTION 2 (EVE-12 Action 3, ongoing): Concerning future work under Topic 2, the EVE group will consider the development of a technical report that could be added into the SR1 and/or RE3 documents and discuss further at the next EVE meeting.