94. WP.29 noted the consolidated document (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/1074/Rev.10) on the status of the agreement, including the status of the UN Rules annexed to the agreement, the list of the Contracting Parties (CP) to the agreement and of their administrative departments. No new CP has acceded to the agreement since the 173rd session of WP.29, nor has the secretariat received new notification on Periodical Technical Inspection (PTI) authorities.

95. The CPs were reminded to notify the secretariat of any relevant update.

96. The representative of the Russian Federation, Co-Chair of the IWG on PTI, updated the World Forum on the work of the group (informal documents WP.29-175-09 and WP.29-175-24). He reported to the World Forum on the eleventh meetings of the IWG on PTI held in 6 June 2018 at the OICA headquarters in Paris, France.

97. He presented the draft revised Terms of Reference (ToR) for the IWG on PTI (WP.29-175-10). All provisions of the ToR, but one, reached consensus at the IWG on PTI, which was still presented in square brackets. Following a remark from the representative of OICA, the representative of CITA clarified that PTI did not aim to redo type approval testing.

98. After a short discussion among delegates, it was agreed to remove the square brackets, the text remaining the same, and WP.29 adopted the ToR. The Chair of WP.29 requested the ToR to be reproduced in Annex VI to the session report.

99. The representative of Japan expressed his appreciation for the discussions on upgrading PTI for automated and connected vehicles. He also introduced that Japan is considering domestic PTI methods corresponding to electric devices.