9. AC.2 considered the revised calendar of sessions for 2020, and the calendar of sessions for 2021. Due to the COVID-19 circumstances, the sixty-seventh session of GRSP, scheduled for July 20-24, 2020, would be held in a virtual format. The chair of GRSG requested the secretariat to inform GRSG delegates as soon as possible about the format under which the 118th session of GRSG, scheduled for July 15-17, 2020, would be held (hybrid or fully virtual). Representatives of Contracting parties requested the rescheduling of meetings in the draft calendar for 2021 that coincide with national holidays in their countries.

19. The secretariat presented the revised 2020 calendar for WP.29 and its subsidiary bodies (WP.29-179-02/Rev.2) and the calendar of work for WP.29 for 2021 (WP.29-181-02). Contracting Parties requested the rescheduling of meetings envisaged for February, September and November of 2021, which coincide with their national holidays.