53. The secretariat recalled the decision taken by the ITC (decision No.26) highlighting that DETA should be financed by the regular budget. In a follow-up, the secretariat would prepare the relevant budget proposals.

54. Germany reported on behalf of the Chair and Secretary about the last meeting of the IWG DETA that was held on 02 March in Paris. He informed delegates that the IWG welcomes the decision of the ITC to finance DETA via the regular budget. He reported that the IWG discussed the content of administrative data sets within DETA as well as the rights to access the database.

55. The representative of Germany informed WP.29 that Germany had to resign from chairing the IWG on DETA and that the offer to host the DETA database until the financing and hosting at the UNECE was guaranteed, has to be withdrawn with immediate effect.