7. The 119th session of WP.29/AC.2 was held on 9 November 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 including its 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 Kingdom (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). Canada, as recently new elected Vice-Chair of GRSG, participated on invitation by the secretariat.

8. The Committee reviewed the draft agenda of the 167th session of the World Forum and recommended the amendments as indicated in paragraph 5 above. The Committee recommended that the Administrative Committee of the 1997 Agreement (AC.4) not convene. WP.29/AC.2 also reviewed the draft agenda for the 168th session of the World Forum, scheduled to be held in Geneva from 8 to 11 March 2016.

9. The representative of Japan reported on the progress of the Informal Working Group on International Whole Vehicle Type Approval (IWVTA-IG). He reported that IWVTA-IG would request WP.29 to extend the mandate of the group by 15 months, until June 2017. The representative of the United Kingdom reminded AC.2 that the extension of the mandate would affect the work of GRs, especially when preparing documents with transitional provisions that need to be aligned with the introduction of Regulation No. 0.

10. Following presentations from the secretariat, the Committee decided to continue discussions on the coordination work on ITS and revisions/recasts of UN regulations at the next AC.2 session in March 2016. The Committee noted concerns raised about the proposal tabled on market fuel quality.

11. The secretariat reminded GRs to inform the secretariat about any new abbreviations brought into use in their documents.

12. The secretariat informed GRs about the deadline of 7 December 2015 for the submission of documents for the 168th WP.29 (8-11 March 2016).

13. The Committee elected Mr. Boris Kisulenko (Russian Federation) as Chair of the AC.2 for the sessions of the year 2016.