58. The secretariat informed the World Forum about the latest update of the status of the 1958 Agreement (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/343/Rev.26 and Corr.1) that contain the information received by the secretariat up to 20 February 2018. WP.29 noted that contracting parties should notify the secretariat about any amendments needed to the status document via the new established online data base only.

59. WP.29 noted the insertion of a new column in Part I of the status document for the purpose of the minimum acceptable version(s) for limited IWVTA. Contracting parties were invited to fill in their corresponding data, once the new UN Regulation No. 0 entered into force on 19 July 2018. Guidelines on how to fill in the requested data into the blank column may be found in informal document IWVTA-26-08.

60. The representative of the Russian Federation reported about the results of the work on aligning of national procedures for the designation of technical services and for issuing type approval communications in line with Revision 3 of the 1958 Agreement.   He also informed about the current status of technical services, which competence was confirmed in 2017. This information was sent to the secretariat of Transport Division in January 2018, and also posted on the official website of the Federal Agency for Technical Regulation and Metrology, which is the Administrative Body of the Russian Federation in accordance with the 1958 Agreement.