UK stated vehicles cannot be registered with a type approval certificate only. UK approved the proposed revision of Article 3 as a working document provided that the wording should be subject to careful scrutiny.

Japan would support the proposed revision of Article 3 with an understanding that this sentence will not prohibit Contracting Parties from requiring testing, etc. relating to administrative procedures other than type approval.

The Chairman concluded that the Informal Group basically approved the proposed revision of Article 3 even though the group is not required to finalize the text at this stage.