The Administrative Committee, according to the procedure indicated in Appendix 1 of the 1958 Agreement, shall establish new Regulations and amendments to Regulations. Proposed Regulations and amendments to Regulations shall be voted on: (i) In case of new Regulations, each country, Contracting Party to the Agreement, shall have one vote. A quorum of not less than one-half of the Contracting Parties is required for the purpose of taking decisions. For determining the quorum, regional economic integration organizations being Contracting Parties to the Agreement, vote with the number of votes of their member States. The representative of a regional economic integration organization may deliver the votes of its constituent sovereign countries. Draft new Regulations shall be established by a four-fifths majority of those present and voting (Article 1 and Appendix); (ii) In case of amendments to existing Regulations, each country, Contracting Party to the Agreement applying the Regulation, shall have one vote. A quorum of not less than one-half of the Contracting Parties applying the Regulation is required for the purpose of taking decisions. For determining the quorum, regional economic integration organizations being Contracting Parties to the Agreement, vote with the number of votes of their member States. The representative of a regional economic integration organization may deliver the votes of its constituent sovereign countries, which apply the Regulation. Draft amendments to Regulations shall be established by a four-fifths majority of those present and voting (Article 12 and Appendix).

Contracting Parties experiencing difficulties in attending the sessions of the Administrative Committee (AC.1) may, exceptionally, be allowed to express their views on items considered in writing, or by delegation of their voting power to other Contracting Parties attending the session (TRANS/WP.29/482, para. 11).

If all Contracting Parties to the Agreement agree, any Regulation adopted under the terms of the previous versions of the Agreement may be treated as though it were a Regulation adopted under the terms of the current version of the Agreement (Article 15, para. 3).

AC.1 will vote on the proposed amendments and corrigenda to existing Regulations of agenda items 4.6 to 4.14, taking into account the recommendations of the World Forum.