Information and status report on the European Commission Cooperative ITS Deployment Platform established in 2014 to define the European framework for connected vehicles and on the Commission Decision C(2015) 6943 of 19 October 2015 establishing a High Level Group on the Competitiveness and Sustainable Growth of the Automotive Industry in the European Union (GEAR 2030) with particular attention to the evolution of connected and autonomous vehicles.
47. The expert from EC informed (GRRF-81-30) GRRF about the Collaborative ITS (C-ITS) platform report. The secretariat noted that the so-called “Day 1 list” in the report contained mainly systems directly related to road vehicles or indirectly, by interacting with road vehicles through their connectivity. He wondered whether EC would wish to contribute at the World Forum level on these systems. The expert from EC explained that no strategy was decided at this stage but he expected that the type-approval requirements for theses vehicle-related systems could be handled by the World Forum, if non-EU Contracting Parties would express their interest in these activities and would wish to contribute.
64. The expert from EC reported (GRRF-81-30) on Gear 2030, being a high level group consisting of the executives of the European automotive sector, relevant Ministers and Commissioners of the European Commission. He added that one of the goals of the group was to develop a roadmap for highly automated driving, within two years.