30. The GRSG Chair informed WP.29 about the results achieved during the 109th session of GRSG (for more details see the report of the session ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/88 and Add.1).

31. The GRSG chair recalled that GRSG had already adopted at its previous session in May 2015 a new 02 series of amendments proposing provisions on a directional discharge of the pressure relief devices of CNG containers (submitted as ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2015/90 to the November 2015 session of WP.29). He added that GRSG had just adopted another amendment removing the provisions on welded cylinders and raising again the stringency of Regulation No. 110. Instead of adopting that amendment as a further new series of amendments, GRSG had agreed to remove ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2015/90 from the WP.29 agenda in November 2015 and to submit a new draft 02 series of amendments to UN Regulation No. 110, incorporating both proposals (directional discharge and removal of welded cylinders) for consideration at the March 2016 session of WP.29.

32. The GRSG chair added that GRSG had considered the results of a study carried out by Germany on blind spot accidents of heavy goods vehicles and that GRSG had agreed on the need to develop a new regulation on the installation on heavy goods vehicles of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) to avoid such blind spot accidents.

33. The GRSG chair reported that GRSG had adopted a minor amendment to the Terms of Reference of the IWG on Panoramic Sunroof Glazing (PSG) to clarify the current scope of UN GTR No. 6.

34. As the mandate of the IWG on AECS was limited to October 2015 and due to the delay in the development of the new Regulation, the GRSG Chair sought the endorsement of WP.29 on the extension of the mandate of IWG by one year. WP.29 gave its consent to extend the mandate. The representative of the Russian Federation, chairing the informal group, reported on the progress made by the IWG. He pointed out that the IWG was working on new items. He did not exclude that other issues would arise. Such questions should be discussed at the stage of the work of IWG to avoid their consideration in the later stages in GRSG or WP.29. The representative of OICA underlined the urgent need to finalize the draft Regulation and to conclude consideration of the remaining open issues, without continuously adding new ones.

35. WP.29 noted that GRSG had re-elected Mr. A. Erario (Italy) as Chair and Mr. K. Hendershot (Canada) as Vice-Chair for the year 2016.

36. GRSG learned that Mr. Matyas Matolcsy (Hungary) was retiring at the end of this year and thanked him for his considerable contributions to the activities of GRSG over the last four decades and his dedication since 2001 as Vice-Chair of GRSG.