10. The expert from the United States of America, Co-Chair of the Informal Working Group (IWG) on Functional Requirements for Automated and Autonomous Vehicles (FRAV), presented GRVA-09-27 with a status report of the activities of the group and a summary of the white paper prepared by the group (GRVA-09-28). He highlighted that the white paper contained definitions and addressed the development of a structure for ADS safety requirements. He added that the Group’s work followed a top-down approach, based on five mains aspects of ADS performance. He explained that, from these five categories, the group derived 40 inter-related safety topics. He concluded his presentation by stating that the group was collecting data supporting the elaboration of safety requirements and ADS description requirements and was coordinating activities together with the IWG on Validation Methods for Automated Driving (VMAD).

11. The expert from OICA presented GRVA-09-10, a document tabled by CLEPA and OICA, on certification of automated vehicles. He stated that the ideas proposed in the presentation were suitable for both the 1958 and 1998 Agreements, type approval and self-certification and were not in contradiction with the activities under the IWGs on FRAV and VMAD. He explained that the ADS certification could be based on two tools: (a) the Automated Driving Management System dealing with the capability of a manufacturer to develop, validate, verify and maintain ADS in the field by evaluating its processes regarding risk assessment and treatment, validation and verification, and field monitoring and response; (b) the ADS Validation dealing with scenario based ADS validation approach with flexible testing configurations using virtual, physical and real-world test methods as well as safety assessments to cover the safety aspects of complex electronic ADS. GRVA agreed to further discuss the ideas proposed in this document.