6. The 117th session of WP.29/AC.2 was held on 9 March 2015, chaired by Mr. B. Kisulenko (Russian Federation) and was attended, in accordance to Rule 29 of the terms of reference and rules of procedure of WP.29 (TRANS/WP.29/690 and including Amends.1 and 2), by the Chairs of WP.29 (Russian Federation), GRB (France), GRE (Belgium), GRSP (United States of America), GRPE (Germany), GRRF (United Kingdom), GRSG (Italy), the Administrative/Executive Committees of the three agreements administered by WP.29 (Russian Federation (AC.1), Russian Federation (AC.4) and the United States of America (AC.3), by the representatives of the European Union, Japan and the United States of America and by the Vice-Chairs of WP.29 (Italy), GRSG (Hungary), GRPE (India) and GRSP (Republic of Korea).

7. The Committee reviewed the draft agenda of the 165th session of the World Forum and recommended the amendments as indicated in para. 3 above. The Committee also recommended that agenda item 4.3 be considered by the World Forum, that and items 4.6 to 4.15 be considered by the Administrative Committee of the 1958 Agreement (AC.1) and that the rest of the agenda items of the 1998 Agreement be considered by the Executive Committee of the 1998 Agreement (AC.3). It was also recommended that the Administrative Committee of the 1997 Agreement (AC.4) not convene. WP.29/AC.2 also reviewed the draft agenda for the 166th session of the World Forum, scheduled to be held in Geneva from 23 to 26 June 2015.

8. WP.29/AC.2 noted the secretariat’s intention to include a new agenda item on documents for publication to resolve the problem of translation of documents into different languages.

9. WP.2/AC.2 considered WP.29-165-03 on further development of the 1997 Agreement and recommended that it be considered by the World Forum together with additional documents submitted by the representative of the Russian Federation under agenda item 7.

10. Given the importance of Intelligent Transport Systems and Automated Driving, WP.29/AC.2 was of the opinion that WP.29 could consider allocating more time in its schedule to this item to further develop the vision on how to tackle this item. WP.29/AC.2 also recommended the secretariat to strengthen the relationship with the Working Party on Road Traffic Safety for the sake of a better transparency.

11. The World Forum adopted the report of the Administrative Committee on its 117th session and its recommendations.