99. The forty-sixth session of the Executive Committee (AC.3) was held on 10 March 2016 and chaired by the representative of the United Kingdom. The representatives of 13 of the 36 Contracting Parties to the Agreement attended: Australia, Canada, China, the European Union (representing Cyprus, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom), India, Japan, Kazakhstan, Norway, Republic of Korea, Republic of Moldova, the Russian Federation, Turkey and the United States of America.

100. At the proposal of the representative from the European Commission, Mr. I. Yarnold (EU) was unanimously elected as Chair and Mr. H. Inomata (Japan) was elected as Vice-Chair for 2016.