85. The secretary of the IWG on Periodic Technical Inspection (PTI), representative from CITA, on behalf of the Co-Chairs of the IWG on PTI (the Netherlands and the Russian Federation), introduced ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRPE/2023/9 and GRPE-89-24-Rev.2. He reminded the adoption of ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRPE/2023/9 had been postponed at the January 2023 session of GRPE.

86. The representative of the European Commission asked whether this proposal would be formally adopted by GRPE. The Chair confirmed GRPE can adopt documents pertaining to any of the three agreements, and he encouraged GRPE to adopt this proposal during this session if possible.

87. The representative of the UK asked to elaborate on the square brackets around the emission limit still present in the proposal. The Chair confirmed this has to be agreed by GRPE.

88. The representative of the Netherlands explained the country as adopted a high limit value to avoid false negative and ask about the legal meaning of the sentence about mutual recognition under para. 3.2.2.

89. The representative of Germany informed GRPE that the country was about to start PN measurement at PTI in July 2023 and asked whether there was any discrepancy between the EU recommendation published recently and this proposal. The secretary of the IWG on PTI confirmed both text contained identical provisions.

90. The representative of the European Commission and Germany requested to make sure the PN limit would only be available from Euro 5b onwards for light duty vehicles. The representative of Australia also request to ensure the PN limit would only be available from Euro VI trucks.

91. GRPE adopted ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRPE/2023/9 as amended by GRPE-89-24-Rev.2 as reflected in Annexes V and VI to the session report and requested the secretariat to submit it to the November 2023 session of WP.29 and AC.4.