138. The secretariat informed WP.29 that the English language version of the fourth edition of the “Blue Book” ECE/TRANS/289 had been published. WP.29 welcomed the distribution of the publication and noted that the translation of the publication into the other official UN languages was still in process, that French and Russian language versions were expected to be available during the 178th session of WP.29 in June 2019, while the Arabic, Chinese and Spanish language versions were expected to be available during the 179th session of WP.29 in November 2019.

139. The Secretary of WP.29 presented informal document WP.29-177-09, the List of Adopted Proposals at the November 2018, 176th session of WP.29 and their entry into force, recalling that AC.1 had adopted at the time 38 amendments and five corrigenda to UN Regulations under the 1958 Agreement, that the corrigenda had already entered into force while the amendments would enter into force on 28 May 2019, following the delivery of notifications.

140. WP.29 was informed that document ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2019/30 contains a road map for accession of the 1998 Agreement which had been presented at its 176th session.