Proposal to correct the improper or confusing provisions described in Amendment 3 to UN GTR No.4.

30. The representative from Japan introduced ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRPE/2021/7, as amended by GRPE-82-09-Rev.1. The representative from EC highlighted an error that had been omitted, and a correction had been introduced during the meeting in GRPE-82-09-Rev.1.

31. GRPE adopted ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRPE/2021/7 and GRPE-82-09-Rev.1 as amended by Addendum 2 to this report. GRPE also adopted the technical report (based on extracts from ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRPE/2021/7) as reproduced in Annex V. GRPE requested the secretariat to submit Addendum 2 and Annex V to WP.29 and Executive Committee of the 1998 Agreement (AC.3) for consideration and vote at their June 2021 sessions as draft Amendment 4 to UN GTR No. 4.

Proposal to improve the text of provisions introduced in Amendment 3 to UN GTR No. 4.

136. Submitted for consideration and vote, the proposal for Amendment 4 to UN GTR No. 4 on WHDC (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2021/79 and ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2021/80) was adopted on 22 June 2021 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 and Sweden), India, Japan, Norway, the Russian Federation, South Africa, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and United States of America.

137. The representatives from the Republic of Korea, Malaysia and Tunisia abstained from voting.