For the try-out period of the system KBA offers to take care of the costs. However a solution is needed for the financing of the final DETA application which should be simple and fair. The simplest way would be that the Contracting Parties to the 1958 Agreement pay a flat rate for all the costs; depending on the number of participants that rate might vary between $1,000 and $3,000 per year. For a fair system the costs should be shared by those who have benefits from the application.

Depending on the content of DETA, the representative of OICA sees certain benefits for his members and stated that a cost of $3,000 per year would not be such a problem. He also pointed out that his members do not need the first page.

Some Contracting Parties are of the opinion that, until the IWVTA becomes possible, there are no benefits for the approval authorities.

The representative from GTB indicated that his members have learned to cope with the long approval marking during the last years and that a contribution to the financing would be problematic.

Japan needs more information to define its benefits and needs more time to reflect the new situation.

Australia sees the availability of more approval information, recalls and availability of information for the police as benefits from DETA; sharing the costs is acceptable.

IMMA regards the reduction of paperwork as a real benefit of the system, but could not yet take a position of the financing.

DETA might firstly focus on a database with type approvals for a limited number of regulations without the first page and without the unique identifier. The developments on the IWVTA would still justify the DETA system and a road map for the development of DETA in line with the road map for IWVTA should be made available for presenting it to WP.29 in March 2012.

Finally the chair requests all delegates to make an inventory of possible benefits of the system, where the questionnaire (that has been performed earlier by DETA) can be helpful.