31. GRSP resumed discussion on the proposal that had been tabled by the expert from EC (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSP/2019/29), on behalf of the task force to align the UN Regulation to the revised General Safety Regulation of the European Union (see ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSP/65, para. 27). The expert from EC explained that the proposal could be considered a supplement since it would mostly imply a change of the scope. The expert from OICA endorsed the statement of the EC expert and said that proposal was in agreement with General Guidelines of ECE/TRANS/WP.29/1044/Rev.2. GRSP adopted ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSP/2019/29, as amended by Annex VI to the session report. The secretariat was requested to submit the proposal as Supplement 2 to the 03 series of amendments to UN Regulation No. 94, for consideration and vote at the June 2020 sessions of WP.29 and AC.1.

32. The expert from Japan introduced a presentation (GRSP-66-31) on behalf of the task force of EC, to explain five informal documents (GRSP-66-32 to GRSP-66-36) that proposed to transpose GTR No. 20, Phase1 into the framework of the 58 Agreement and therefore amend a number of UN Regulations (e.g. GRSP-66-32 proposed a new series of amendments to UN Regulation No. 94). He added that his administration and EC intend to take the administrative action in accordance with the 98 Agreement through the application of relevant UN Regulations and therefore were initiating this task. He added that these proposals had been reviewed and confirmed at a side meeting of the last session of EVS IWG, and therefore the submission was rather late. However, he clarified that these proposals were the first introduction to GRSP experts, and aimed to gather comments from experts by the dates of the May 2020 session of GRSP. He also stressed the need to receive these comments at the earliest convenience to allow their submission to the November 2020 session of WP.29.

33. The expert from Sweden introduced GRSP-66-09, showing frontal impact testing at 40 per cent overlap against a barrier at 64 km/h. Conducted in May 2019 by his Administration, the test followed-up several fatal accidents in recent years and noted the increased popularity of motor caravans. He indicated that the crash test video was available in Swedish at: https://youtu.be/JuNOarORALM. Finally, GRSP agreed on the relevance of this topic and agreed to resume discussion after more information from the expert of Sweden.