9. The 127th session of WP.29/AC.2 (18 June 2018) was chaired by Mr. A. Erario (Italy) and was attended, in accordance to Rule 29 of the terms of reference and rules of procedure of WP.29 (TRANS/WP.29/690/Rev.1) by the Chairs of GRB (France), GRE (Belgium), GRPE (Netherlands), GRRF (United Kingdom), GRSP (United States of America), GRSG (Italy), the Chair of the Executive Committee (AC.3) of the 1998 Agreement (Japan), the Vice-Chair of WP.29 (Russian Federation), by the representatives of Canada, Germany, Japan, Republic of Korea, the United States of America and the European Union.

10. AC.2 reviewed and adopted the provisional agenda of the 175th session of the World Forum, and reviewed the draft agenda of the 176th session of the World Forum, scheduled to be held in Geneva from 13 to 16 November 2018.

11. AC.2 reviewed the proposed calendar for 2019.

12. AC.2 noted that a task force meeting took place in May 2018 on the preparation of a joint WP.1 and WP.29 meeting on issues of automated / autonomous driving. Such a joint meeting was aimed at implementation of decision No. 13 of the eightieth ITC requesting closer cooperation of the two Working Parties in this area. AC.2 was informed about the next meeting of this task force scheduled on 21 June 2018. The representative of the United States of America suggested that the group should review the draft Global Forum for Road Traffic Safety (WP.1) resolution on the area of highly automated vehicles.

13. AC.2 reviewed documents on a new vehicle category in the Consolidated Resolution R.E.3 and on artificial intelligence, and asked the secretariat to prepare informal documents to be submitted for consideration by WP.29.

14. AC.2 approved the participation at the World Forum, under Rule 1(d) of the Rules of Procedure of WP.29, of the following Non-Governmental Organizations for the 2018-2019 biennium: European Association for Electro Mobility (AVERE) and UL Transaction Security.

15. AC.2 considered different proposals regarding the creation of a dedicated Groupe de Rapporteurs (GR) on automated vehicles implementing ITC decision No. 19. Deliberations focused on three different options:

1. renaming existing GRRF to Groupe de Rapporteurs pour les Véhicules Autonomes (GRVA) and transferring certain tasks such as tyres and coupling devices to other existing GRs;


2. renaming GRRF into GRVA, transferring tasks not related to automated vehicles to other GRs and tasking GRVA with a coordinating role as an intermediate layer between WP.29 and the remaining five GRs; and


3. establishment of an additional new GR, GRVA and maintain the existing six GRs.

16. AC.2 agreed to submit the informal document WP.29-175-25, presenting and assessing the three options as a discussion document from AC.2 to WP.29 for further consideration and possible adoption of one of the options.

17. AC.2 noted that the draft update of the “Blue Book” publication was prepared and requested the secretariat to circulate it as a new informal document for this WP.29 session.