WP29 Secretariat pointed out that the wording “(i)-a: whether the said UN Regulation is valid or not (some of the UN Regulations are out of fashion and almost no Contracting Parties adopt them)” in paragraph 16 should be amended to be, for example, “(i)-a: whether the said UN Regulation is valid or not (some UN Regulations are old and need amendments)”.

EC recommended that the wording should be “(i)-a: whether the said UN Regulation is valid or not (whether the requirements are suitable as IWVTA purpose)”.

OICA requested to delete paragraph 17 and 18 and also Annex 3 and 4 because further consideration would be necessary on the candidate list for technical regulation items to be applied to IWVTA and the guideline for GRs to review technical regulations applicable to IWVTA.

Japan explained that the candidate list and the guideline were annexed because they need to be reviewed and checked by GR experts as soon as possible in order to complete the work, i.e., making all the UN Regulations applicable to IWVTA by 2016. Japan continued that OICA’s request was a surprise but could be acceptable provided that OICA believed that it is better to delete these annexes in order to complete the work by 2016. The Informal Group concluded to delete theses annexes.

Major changes in the roadmap are as follows:

• - making a draft revision of the 1958 Agreement: changed from June, 2012 to November, 2012
• - submission of proposed revision of the 1958 Agreement to WP.29: changed from November, 2012 to March, 2013

WP.29 Secretariat asked what inquiries should be addressed to NY Legal Division.

EC responded that inquiries should be addressed after the contents of placeholder should be made clear.

Germany proposed to number the envisaged actions in the paragraphs of the document.