(F) presented this document, which proposes to separate CAT D and CAT E in a new regulation. Their intend is to concentrate only the lateral requirements in the “Steering” Regulation 79. Every system, which also have modules for longitudinal control should be defined in the new regulation. ACSF Categories A-C should remain in the Regulation 79.

(Chair-Germany, in the following “C-D”): shares many of his principles. It is clear, that for CAT E we need more that steering requirements. He agreed, that the a new regulation should be available “at the end”.
He proposes to finalize the current work in the regulation 79 and to transfer in a second step these requirements in a new regulation.
(OICA): is also taking care to look in a solution of the horizontal approach. The time-line, to have such a regulation is too long, so that the proposal is to continue the current work.
(C-D): The Chairman of the GRRF, Bernie Frost explained the “process” of the current work in the working group to WP.29 in the past. Also in the G7 meeting in Germany in September 2015 the consensus was to continue the work as it is.
He proposes to make the new regulation as the second step, but he also shares the opinion of F, that this is a misuse of the Regulation 79. To take out CAT D-E would bring us nearly back to start and will jeopardize to have the systems on the market in 2020.
(F): today it is not clear, which position F will have in the GRRF81.
(D): expects, that the work can be finalized until mid-2017. So 2020 would be possible to have systems on the market. With a separation of CAT D-E, 2020 would be not possible anymore.
(CLEPA): The delay, if separation CAT D-E would be a big problem for the industry.
(EC): agrees to the approach from F. We should continue the current work, but we should not lose sight of the separate regulation
(OICA): ToR requires CAT B-E, so we should continue the work as defined.
(Chair-Japan, in the following “C-J”): fully shares the F proposal. Because of restrictions in the timing, he supports the amendments of Regulation 79 – as an intermediate solution.
(F): will support the current way, but driver monitoring will be an essential issue. He will bring this document as an informal document to GRRF81, where he will present this issue, to share this item with the delegates.