4. The chairman recalled his report to the 69th GRRF (GRRF-69-20 (AMEVSC-04-11e)) and gave a short report of the subsequent discussion (reference AMEVSC-05-02e) highlighting the following main points.
In discussing the “legality” issue, the “signing of test reports by the approval authority” as raised by Mr. Paeslack was addressed, with the following being the main points of the discussion.
The KBA advised that it had reservations with regard to being able to support the test report approach, and that it would be conducting an investigation into the legal aspects surrounding the use of test reports.
As a result of this forthcoming KBA/Germany study the Chairman held over any further discussion until the next meeting by which time the outcome of the study would be known.