91. The Secretary of the Working Party on Road Traffic Safety (WP.1) reported on the entry into force on 23 March 2016 of the amendments to Articles 8 and 39 of the 1968 Vienna Convention and that a similar amendment was proposed for the 1949 Geneva Convention on Road Traffic. He also reported on the progress during its recent session, held on 5-7 October 2015, on substantive issues on the amendment to align the provisions on lighting and light-signalling with those of the 1958 Agreement. He informed the World Forum about the document tabled by the experts from Belgium and Sweden exploring the role of the driver in a vehicle with high levels of automation. He added that WP.1 discussed whether the Convention allows testing of autonomous vehicles on public roads and that the expert from Belgium volunteered to prepare an amendment to the Convention to clarify this issue. He concluded his report, informing WP.29 of the recent establishment of an IWG dealing with automated vehicles.

92. WP.29 recalled its wish to avoid task overlap and duplication between groups. The Chair informed the Secretary of WP.1 that the IWG on ITS/AD had elected the representative of Finland to act as ambassador between ITS/AD and the informal group of experts of WP.1. WP.29 decided that the IWG on ITS/AD would be mandated by WP.29 to be the interface with the informal group of experts of WP.1.