57. The Chair of IWG on Vehicle Interior Air Quality (VIAQ) presented a status report on the ongoing activities of the group (GRPE-81-08). He detailed the proposed revision to Mutual Resolution No. 3 (M.R.3) as found in ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRPE/2020/16 containing new provisions to measure interior vehicle air quality, for example the description of the test procedure for emissions entering to the vehicle cabin with exhaust gases.

58. GRPE adopted ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRPE/2020/16 and requested the secretariat to submit it to WP.29 and AC.3 for consideration and vote at their November 2020 sessions as a proposal for Amendment 1 to M.R.3.

151. Submitted for consideration and vote Amendments 1 to Mutual Resolution No.3 Concerning Vehicle Interior Air Quality (VIAQ) was adopted on 11 November 2020 by consensus vote of the following contracting parties present and voting: Australia, 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, the Russian Federation and South Africa.

152. Canada, Nigeria, Tunisia and United States of America abstained from voting.