This GRPE session, including the IWG meetings, is scheduled to be held in Geneva, Palais des Nations, starting on Monday, 7 January 2019, from 9.30 a.m. until Friday, 11 January 2019, at 5.30 p.m. Interpretation services would be provided from 8 January (2.30 p.m.) to 11 January (12.30 p.m.) 2019. The deadline for the submission of official working documents to this session is 16 October 2018.
The following meetings have been scheduled in conjunction with this session:
| Date | Event | Times |
| Monday, 7 January 2019 | Worldwide harmonized Light vehicles Test Procedure (WLTP) | 9.30 a.m. – 12.30 p.m. 2.30 p.m. – 5.30 p.m. |
| Heavy Duty Fuel Economy measurement Workshop | 9.30 a.m. – 12.30 p.m. 2.30 p.m. – 5.30 p.m. | |
| Tuesday, 8 January 2019 | Worldwide harmonized Light vehicles Test Procedure (WLTP) | 9.30 a.m. – 12.30 p.m. |
| Electric Vehicles and the Environment (EVE) | 2.30 p.m. – 5.30 p.m. | |
| Environmental and Propulsion Performance Requirements of L-category vehicles – OBD2 (OBD2 CG) | 2.30 p.m. – 5.30 p.m. | |
| Particle Measurement Programme (PMP) | 2.30 p.m. – 5.30 p.m. | |
| Wednesday, 9 January 2019 | Environmental and Propulsion Performance Requirements of L-category vehicles (EPPR) | 9.30 a.m. – 12.30 p.m. 2.30 p.m. – 5.30 p.m. |
| Global Real Driving Emissions (RDE) | 9.30 a.m. – 12.30 p.m. 2.30 p.m. – 5.30 p.m. | |
| Vehicle Interior Air Quality (VIAQ) | 2.30 p.m. – 5.30 p.m. |
2. Mr. Rijnders, Chair of GRPE, opened the meeting, welcomed the participants and expressed the best wishes for the New Year. GRPE adopted the provisional agenda of the seventy-eighth session (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRPE/2019/1), as updated and consolidated in GRPE-78-11-Rev.3. GRPE took note of GRPE-78-01-Rev.1 on the organization of GRPE Informal Working Group (IWG) meetings held during the week.
3. The informal documents distributed before and during the GRPE session are listed in Annex I of the session report. Annex II lists the informal meetings held in conjunction with this GRPE session. Annex III lists IWGs of GRPE, task forces and subgroups, giving details on their Chairs, Secretaries and the end of their mandates.
4. The secretariat introduced GRPE-78-02, announcing that the next GRPE session would take place on from 21 to 24 May 2019 and recalling the corresponding deadline (25 February 2019) for the submission of official documents. The Chairs and Secretaries of IWGs were invited to approach the secretariat to define the calendar of IWGs meetings for the May 2019 GRPE session.
5. The Chair recalled the importance of emissions regulations and that, together with the emergence of automated, autonomous and connected vehicles, the work of GRPE remained a high priority of the parties involved in WP.29. He highlighted the need to deliver on the regulatory provisions under the responsibility of GRPE.