2. Mr. Rijnders, Chair of GRPE, opened the meeting, held as hybrid session, with all participants attending virtually because of the sanitary situation, and welcomed the participants. GRPE adopted the provisional agenda of the eighty-second session (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRPE/2021/1), as updated and consolidated in GRPE-82-02-Rev.2, and GRPE-82-03-Rev.2 as a tentative running order. GRPE took note of GRPE-82-01-Rev.1 on the organization of GRPE Informal Working Group (IWG) meetings held during the weeks prior to this meeting.

3. The informal documents distributed before and during the GRPE session are listed in Annex I of the session report. Annex II lists the informal meetings held in conjunction with this GRPE session. Annex III lists IWGs of GRPE, task forces and subgroups, giving details on their Chairs, Secretaries and the end of their mandates.

4. The secretariat introduced GRPE-82-05, announcing that the next GRPE session would tentatively take place on from 1 to 4 June 2021 and recalling the corresponding deadline (9 March 2021) for the submission of official documents. The Chairs and Secretaries of IWGs were invited to approach the secretariat to define the calendar of IWGs meetings in conjunction with the June 2021 GRPE session.