37. GRRF noted that the report ECE/TRANS/WP.29/1093 of the November 2011 session of WP.29 was available at the WP.29 website. The following major issues were highlighted (reference to the report of WP.29):

(a) Situation on the delays in publishing procedure of documentation (paras. 4 and 14);
(b) Availability of documentation in the three authentic languages (paras. 15-17);
(c) Instructions and rules of the UN Office of Legal Affairs (OLA) for Corrigenda (para. 19), specifying that Corrigenda should aim exclusively at correcting, without modifying the meaning or substance of the text of the treaty:

• (a) physical errors on typing, printing, spelling
• (b) lack of conformity of the treaty with the official records, and/or
• (c) lack of concordance between the texts of the different authentic languages.

(d) Recommendations from OLA that the terms “UN Regulations”, “UN Global Technical Regulations” and “UN Rules” could be used in administrative and informative documents, but not in legal documents (subject to a revision of the text of the 1958, 1997 and 1998 Agreements) (para. 20).

13. The World Forum noted the programme of work and availability of documentation (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2012/1). WP.29 representatives were invited to revise the programme of work and to communicate to the secretariat any amendment deemed necessary.

14. The secretariat informed the World Forum about some corrections to the calendar of sessions for 2012 (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/1093/Corr.3). The World Forum noted a draft calendar of sessions for the year 2013 (WP.29-156-01). The Chair of GRSG suggested advancing the April 2013 session by one week. The secretariat was invited to submit to WP.29 the final calendar of sessions for 2013 when Conference Services confirms the availability of meeting rooms.

15. The World Forum noted the list of informal working groups of the World Forum and its subsidiary Working Parties (WP.29-156-02). The Chair of GRB indicated that the informal working group on motorcycle noise emissions had concluded its work and that a new mandate was in the process of adoption for the informal working group on Quiet Road Transport Vehicles.

16. The World Forum adopted the instructions of the GRs for preparing Corrigenda (WP.29-156-03) as reproduced in Annex II to this report. The secretariat was requested to transmit the instructions to all subsidiary Working Parties.