Adopted technical report on the development of draft Amendment 1 to global technical regulation No. 15 on Worldwide harmonized Light vehicles Test Procedures (WLTP)
25. The expert from EC presented the technical report on the further development of WLTP (GRPE-72-02-Rev.1). He clarified that the technical report contained the development of the test procedure combining both Phase 1A and Phase 1B activities. He also mentioned that the test cycle development under Phase 1A had been considered in the technical report provided for the original version of GTR No. 15 and it was again referred to in GRPE-72-02-Rev.1.
26. GRPE adopted GRPE-72-10-Rev.2 as reproduced in Addendum 1 to this report and requested the secretariat to submit it to WP.29 and the Executive Committee of the 1998 Agreement (AC.3) for consideration and vote at their June 2016 sessions as draft Amendment 1 to GTR No. 15. GRPE also adopted the technical report (GRPE-72-02-Rev.1) as reproduced in Addendum 2 to this report and requested the secretariat to submit it to WP.29 and AC.3 for consideration and vote at their June 2016 sessions.
26. GRPE adopted GRPE-72-10-Rev.2 as reproduced in Addendum 1 to this report and requested the secretariat to submit it to WP.29 and the Executive Committee of the 1998 Agreement (AC.3) for consideration and vote at their June 2016 sessions as draft Amendment 1 to GTR No. 15. GRPE also adopted the technical report (GRPE-72-02-Rev.1) as reproduced in Addendum 2 to this report and requested the secretariat to submit it to WP.29 and AC.3 for consideration and vote at their June 2016 sessions.
29. The Chair of GRPE, Mr. C. Albus (Germany), reported to WP.29 about the results of GRPE during its seventy-second session (for more details see the report of the session ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRPE/72).
25. The World Forum recalled the oral report of the Chair of GRE given during the 168th session (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/1120, para. 29) and approved the report and addenda 1, 2 and 3.
107. AC.3 agreed to defer this subject to its November 2016 session.
114. Submitted for consideration and vote, the proposal for Amendment 1 to UN GTR No. 15 on WLTP (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2016/68, ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2016/69, ECE/TRANS/WP.29/AC.3/39) was established in the UN Global Registry on 17 November 2016 by consensus vote of the following Contracting Parties present and voting: Australia, China, European Union (voting for Cyprus, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom), India, Japan, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Norway, Republic of Korea, Russian Federation, South Africa and Tunisia.
115. The representatives of Canada and the United States of America abstained from voting.