61. The Chair of the informal group on developing DETA reported on the work progress made by the group at its meeting held in Geneva, on 12 March 2012. Referring to the discussion at the November 2011 session of WP.29, he reiterated the need for consent or a decision from WP.29 on a number of administrative and legal issues listed in ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2012/35. He introduced WP.29-156-24 proposing a feasible roadmap for the further development of DETA. The representative of the Netherlands recalled that the initial goal of DETA was aimed at simplifying the markings of components and, therefore, especially invited CLEPA and GTB to participate in the informal meetings. The representative of United States of America raised concerns on the prioritization of requested financing scheme for DETA, given the limited resources of the WP.29 secretariat.

42. The Chair of the informal group on DETA reported on the progress made by the group at its meeting held in Geneva on 25 June 2012. He underlined that one of the main final objectives of DETA was the simplification of the markings required in UN Regulations and the establishment of the future IWVTA. He announced the informal group’s intention to develop a further Appendix to the 1958 Agreement clarifying the administrative procedure for possible use of DETA. Referring to WP.29-156-24, he volunteered to prepare a more detailed and updated road map for the development of DETA. He also announced the group’s intention to develop a concrete financing scheme for the launching phase (three years) of the DETA system, taking into account the possibility of UNECE to take over hosting the DETA system after the launching phase.

43. Recalling the discussion at the previous session of WP.29, the Chair of DETA reiterated the need for decisions by the World Forum, at its November 2012 session, on a number of administrative and legal issues listed in ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2012/35.

The secretariat of the UN reports that AC2 has decided to defer the decision on the questions raised in document (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2012/35) on the legal basis of DETA in the 1958 Agreement, the steering committee, implementing of DETA in different stages, financing, the server and unique identifier to the November meeting. Especially the European Commission needs more time to decide on the link with the International Whole Vehicle Type Approval (IWVTA).

He also informed that the chairman and secretariat will get mandate to upload documents on the website of DETA in order to reduce the workload for the UN secretariat.

41. The Chair of the informal working group on DETA reported on the progress made by the group at its meeting held in Geneva on 12 November 2012. He withdrew ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2012/35 and WP.29-156-24. He announced the intention of the informal group to present an interim report, including an updated road map, on the way to move forward with the establishment of DETA, for consideration by WP.29 at its March 2013 session. He expressed the intention of DETA to submit in due time proposals to both subgroups of IWVTA for consideration in January 2013. The representative of OICA referred to informal document WP.29-150-20 and to document ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2010/143, referring to a possible simplification of marking.

42. The Chair of the group informed WP.29 that the testing phase was launched and that all interested Contracting Parties could now have access to the DETA database.

As the question list did not lead to the respective answers in WP.29 the chairman proposes to withdraw document ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2012/35 and to replace it by an interim report on the future approach. The representatives of the UK, Germany and the Netherlands will prepare within 3 weeks a first draft which will be finalised by a correspondence group. It will contain the work done by the informal DETA group, a final proposal for DETA and proposal for amending – in parallel the IWVTA will be informed about the DETA outcome- the text of the 1958 Agreement and the draft Regulation 0. As a solution is found for the financing of the DETA system there is no more need for a special steering group; adjustments of the system can be done through an informal group under WP.29. The interim report will either be an informal document for the March 2013 session of WP.29 or an official document for June 2012; it will also suggest to set the informal group on an idling stage.