2. Mr. Rijnders, Chair of GRPE, opened the meeting, welcomed the participants and expressed the best wishes for the New Year. GRPE adopted the provisional agenda of the seventy-eighth session (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRPE/2019/1), as updated and consolidated in GRPE-78-11-Rev.3. GRPE took note of GRPE-78-01-Rev.1 on the organization of GRPE Informal Working Group (IWG) meetings held during the week.