85. The Chair of GRE reported on the results of the eighty-third session of GRE (for details, see the report in ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRE/83). Note: GRE/83 was unavailable at the time of the session.

86. In particular, the GRE chair informed WP.29 about GRE activities towards preparing new series of amendments to UN Regulation No. 48 with new requirements for the headlamp aiming and levelling and for the switching conditions of various lamps. He pointed out that GRE intended to finalize these amendment proposals at its next session in April 2021.

87. The GRE chair also mentioned amendment proposals to various UN Regulations that had been prepared by the IWG on Simplification of Lighting and Light-Signalling UN Regulations (SLR) and subsequently approved by GRE. He added that, for the use of the Unique Identifier (UI), GRE had agreed with the IWG on SLR proposal to include new information in DETA and to provide access to this information to new categories of stakeholders and mandated IWG on SLR to bring this proposal to IWG on DETA for consideration.

88. WP.29 noted that GRE had elected Mr. Timo Kärkkäinen (Finland) as Chair and Mr. Derwin Rovers (Netherlands) as Vice-Chair for the year 2021. WP.29 thanked Mr. Michel Loccufier (Belgium), who had chaired GRE from 2015 to 2020, for his contributions.