11. The Chair of GRSP, co-Chair of the IWG on Electric Vehicle Safety (EVS), reported on the progress of work of the IWG (GRSP-57-19). He informed GRSP that the most recent meeting of the IWG was held in Paris, March 2015. He added that despite the good progress made by the nine task forces, the expert from the United States of America participating in the IWG was of the opinion that more data was still required and as such the deadline (December 2015) of the mandate of the IWG would be of a secondary importance to delivering a robust UN GTR that would be acceptable to all Contracting Parties. The expert from Japan strongly recommended that the deadline would be respected and that a draft UN GTR would be submitted at the December 2015 session of GRSP. The expert from Germany made a similar statement. The IWG co-Chair expressed openness to a possible 2-phase approach with a one-year extension of the mandate such as: (i) deliver a draft UN GTR by December 2016 session of GRSP covering 90 per cent of the issues and then (ii) the second phase will address long term research items. The experts from Japan and Germany expressed their preference for the above proposed two-steps approach. Future meetings are planned as follows: (i) eighth meeting on 15 June 2015, Washington D.C, (ii) ninth meeting on 14-18 September 2015, Changchun, China and (iii) tenth meeting to be determined.