4. Regarding the proposal to remove from global technical regulation (gtr) No. 4 on the Worldwide harmonized Heavy Duty Certification procedure (WHDC) the remaining options on hot soak period and cold start weighting factors, GRPE noted that the proposal ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2010/48 had been submitted to WP.29 and AC.3, for consideration at their June 2010 sessions and establishing into the Global Registry as Amendment 2 to the gtr. With regard to the corresponding alignment of Regulation No. 49, GRPE welcomed the anticipated adoption by WP.29 at its March 2010 session of ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2010/51.

77. Submitted for consideration and vote, the proposed Amendment 2 (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2010/48) to global technical regulation No. 4 was established in the Global Registry on 23 June 2010 by consensus vote of the following Contracting Parties present and voting: Australia, Canada, People’s Republic of China, European Union (voting for Cyprus, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom), India, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Republic of Korea, Russian Federation, South Africa and the United States of America.

78. The technical report (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2010/49) and the adopted proposal for the development of the gtr (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/AC.3/20) will be appended to the established gtr.