52. GRSG noted the submission by the Russian Federation of an official proposal (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2013/67) for an new UN Regulation on e-call systems and the decision of WP.29 (see report ECE/TRANS/WP.29/1104, paras. 74-76) to establish a new informal working group on Automatic Emergency Call System (AECS) under the responsibility of GRSG.

53. The expert from the Russian Federation, chairing the informal working group on AECS reported on the results of the first meeting, which was held on 8 October 2013 in Geneva. It was noted that the further development of the new draft UN Regulation on AECS should be based on a single document. The experts from the Russian Federation and OICA volunteered to jointly prepare a new proposal based on ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2013/67, including provisions for the type approval of such systems, their installation on vehicles and the approval of vehicles with respect to their AECS. It was recommended to limit the scope, in a first step, to vehicles of categories M1 and N1 and that Contracting Parties may extend the application of the new Regulation to other categories of vehicles on their national level. He added that all related working papers are publicly available on: https://www2.unece.org/wiki/display/trans/AECS+1st+meeting.

[Information concerning AECS has been consolidated by GAR on the AECS project pages.]

54. The AECS Chair underlined the tough time schedule to develop the new draft UN Regulation and invited all interested experts to participate in the next meeting of the informal working group, scheduled to be held in Paris on 5-6 December 2013. The GRSG Chair reminded the informal group of the need to adopt, at the next session of GRSG, the final Terms of Reference for AECS.