7. The expert from the United States of America, on behalf of the co-sponsors (Japan, Republic of Korea and European Union) informed GRSP about the work progress of IWG on Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Vehicles (HFCV) UN GTR No. 13, Phase 2 (GRSP-67-38). He informed GRSP that the last IWG meeting of UN GTR on HFCV Phase 2 had been held in November 2019. He added that since then, IWG held only limited virtual meetings through WebEx and that the most recent meeting of co-sponsors was on 4 June 2020, which included experts from the contracting parties and some representatives from the industry and standards-setting organizations. He clarified that the main purpose was to assess the current status, to inform each other of any developments in the domestic regulatory or research side and to advance, to the extent possible, the work in the task forces who were the main actors in developing the amendment, as complemented with the test and research results. He clarified some of the recent technical issues in IWG work: (a) the sled test criteria for heavy duty vehicles, (b) direction of the thermo-pressure release valve, © the fuelling receptacle and (d) reduction of NWP from 225 per cent to 200 per cent. Moreover, he added that given the constraints, IWG had progressed and had begun a Drafting Task Force to formulate the text of the amendments to the UN GTR. He had estimated back in November 2019 that additional time might be needed to complete the task beyond the current mandate, but that the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) had led most government and industry labs, and test facilities to close for a significant amount of time – and that the need for an extension of the mandate was inevitable. He concluded by informing GRSP that IWG had planned its next virtual meeting for the end of August or beginning of September 2020.