Mr. Kaganov, delegate from the Ministry of Industry and trade of the Russian Federation started the meeting and introduced Mr. Alexander Gurko, President of GLONASS UNION and the expert responsible for Era-GLONASS project.

The attendees were informed that infrastructure in the Russian Federation (RUS) is currently being completed. RUS is confident that the RUS system achieved good compromises. 2014 will see the start of the complete testing. The system should be in place for processing real emergency calls by 2015.

The UNECE Secretariat recalled the discussions which took place at WP29 at its June 2013 session (see document ECE/TRANS/WP29/1104, paragraphs 74-76).