142. Submitted for consideration and vote Amendments 1 to UN GTR No. 18 – On-Board Diagnostic (OBD) systems for L-category vehicles (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2020/129, ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2020/130, and ECE/TRANS/WP.29/AC.3/36/Rev.1) were adopted on 11 November 2020 by consensus vote of the following contracting parties present and voting: Australia, Canada, China, the European Union (representing Cyprus, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), India, Japan, Nigeria, the Russian Federation, South Africa, and the United States of America.

143. Malaysia, Norway, Tunisia and the Republic of Korea abstained from voting.

43. The Chair of IWG on Environmental and Propulsion Performance Requirements for L-category vehicles (EPPR) introduced ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRPE/2020/17, as amended by GRPE-81-24-Rev.2, containing a draft Amendment 1 to UN GTR No. 18. He added that the technical report coming together with draft Amendment 1 to UN GTR No. 18 would be submitted subsequently by some of the CPs involved in the development of this new amendment. He thanked the contributions from all parties.

44. GRPE adopted ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRPE/2020/17 and GRPE-81-24-Rev.2 as amended by Addendum 3 to this chair’s notes. GRPE also took note regarding the later submission of the technical report. GRPE requested the secretariat to submit Addendum 3 to WP.29 and Executive Committee of the 1998 Agreement (AC.3) for consideration and vote at their November 2020 sessions as draft Amendment 1 to UN GTR No. 18.