48. The secretariat informed the World Forum about the latest update of the status of the 1958 Agreement (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/343/Rev.25) that contains the information received by the secretariat up to 20 May 2017, and which is available on the WP.29 website at: www.unece.org/trans/main/wp29/wp29wgs/wp29gen/wp29fdocstts.html. WP.29 noted that Contracting Parties should notify the secretariat about any amendments needed to the status document.

49. The secretariat, following the discussions of the March 2017 session, presented a user-manual (WP.29-172-07) of the web-based application that had been established in the Sustainable Transport Division on the exchange of information between the Contracting Parties and the secretariat for information relevant to Part 1 and Annex 1 of the status of the 1958 Agreement document, that aimed to replace paper notification of the above-mentioned information.

50. WP.29 decided that the heads of delegations should provide the secretariat with the Single Point Of Contact (SPOC) on the designation of Type Approval Authorities and Technical Services that would receive credentials for accessing the application for introducing new or changes to existing information. WP.29 agreed that the objective was to manage the exchange of information with the secretariat, exclusively through the web-based application from 2018 onwards.