49. GRSG welcomed the good news that the World Forum WP.29 had endorsed, at its June 2016 session, the text of draft Revision 3 to the 1958 Agreement as reflected in ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2016/2 and that no objection had been raised from the represented Contracting Parties to the 1958 Agreement (report ECE/TRANS/WP.29/1123, paras. 48 and 49). GRSG noted that WP.29 had invited the representative of EU to proceed with the notification process of Revision 3 to United Nations Office for Legal Affairs (OLA). It was also noted that the corresponding EU decision as well as the text of Revision 3 had been published on 11 October 2016 in the EU official journal L274.

50. GRSG recalled the discussion during its previous session on GRSG-110-24 and its decision to split Regulation No. 116 into three UN Regulations, specifically on

1. anti-theft devices,
2. alarm systems and
3. immobilizers.

GRSG noted that the Task Force was still working on concrete proposals that were expected to be submitted for consideration at the next GRSG session. GRSG also noted that UN Regulations Nos. 18 and 97 would be incorporated into the new proposals. GRSG agreed to keep UN Regulation No. 116, but to remove some provisions and to insert the latter ones into two new UN Regulations.

51. The Chair suggested deferring the discussion of this subject to the next GRSG session in April 2017 awaiting the proposals by the Task Force.