3. In her opening statement, the Director of the Sustainable Transport Division informed WP.29 about the cut of a G-Post which directly affects the vehicle regulations section. The Division’s management is working on a temporary arrangement until additional resources arrive. To this end and as requested by the Inland Transport Committee (ITC) a strategy paper will be prepared for the next ITC session that will include issues about financing the secretariat’s activities. She further highlighted that the next year’s ITC will be the seventieth anniversary of ITC. As the big challenges ahead, she recalled the important role of safe vehicles to achieve the road safety target, the Revision 3 of the 1958 Agreement, the increased accession to all of the three agreements serviced by WP.29 and to facilitate their implementation. For the latter, important elements are the up-coming GA resolution on road safety where member States are invited to support the request for accession to and implementation of the three United Nations vehicle agreements. Finally, the Director referred to the options paper for the establishment of a United Nations Road Safety Fund (WP.29-168-14) .