48. The Chair of GRRF stressed the need for clarifying the referencing of UN Regulations (WP.29-155-05). He underlined that both, static and dynamic, references were currently used in UN Regulations. He suggested considering this issue in detail with the Chairs of the other Working Parties. The Chair of GRPE welcomed this initiative and suggested also adding this subject to the agenda of the forthcoming sessions of GRSP, GRPE and GRB for detailed consideration. The representatives of CLEPA and OICA underlined the importance of this matter, with the representative of OICA indicating that this issue was reviewed in detail internally, resulting in the recommendation that a case by case approach would be appropriate in view of the difficulty of defining a universal solution. WP.29 agreed to resume consideration of this issue at its next session in March 2012 and to keep WP.29-155-05 on the agenda as a reference document.

49. The Chair of GRRF also added that the reproduction of parts of standards and the use of references in UN Regulations to private standards should be clarified, especially for those standards which were not freely available (WP.29-155-33). The representative of the United States of America stated that in references to private standards in the US legislation, these standards have to be made freely available. The World Forum agreed to resume consideration of this subject at its next session and invited the secretariat to contact the different standardization bodies for their positions.

70. Referring to WP.29-155-05 and WP.29-155-33, the GRPE Chair illustrated the issues on referencing of UN Regulations and standards with documents, inviting experts from GRPE to provide him with any information or opinion.