The secretariat gave feedback from the meetings on the IWVTA that were held on 20 to 22 June in Paris. The proposals from DETA (DETA-15-03) were not discussed in the 2 working groups but only in the informal group IWVTA, which expressed its concerns on the proposed mandatory use of DETA for all approvals.

DETA took note of a proposal (DETA-15-06) from the chairman and the secretariat for a more limited amendment of the 1958 Agreement, which has been changed during the meeting according DETA-15-06rev.1. In addition the UN secretariat suggested to align the wording with document ECE/TRANS/WP.29/1044/Rev.1 and replace “ equipment” by “systems and components”.

After a discussion the DETA group concluded that the following approach could be suggested to IWVTA:

• - a limited amendments to article 5 of the Agreement stating that the notification concerning approvals should be according the procedures in a new appendix (placeholder) with administrative provisions;
• - the administrative provisions should give several options for the distribution of type approval data including the possibility of the use of a common secure electronic data exchange system (DETA),
• - the specification in each regulation which procedure might or has to be used (for Regulation 0 the DETA system) and
• - in cases where the Unique Identifier will be used or otherwise requested in a separate Regulation the DETA system shall be applied.

The ECE stressed this to be structured in the DETA meetings for showing the benefits of DETA.

To give further input to the next meetings of the two IWVTA subgroups all delegated will inform the secretariat before the end of August with topic that has to be dealt with in the relevant placeholder, which the chair and secretariat will convert into a proposal for IWVTA in September.

The IWVTA subgroup SG58 that is drafting the new text of the 1958 Agreement in order to make the agreement more attraction for new counties will propose that once a new country has become a Contracting Party it acceeds to a Regulation, it can grant approvals to all series of amendments provided it has the technical competence and has to accept approvals to the latest version of the regulation. When approvals are granted to previous series of amendments (the text of former series will be cast in stone) it will be including all supplements for that series of amendments.

The IWVTA subgroup SGR0 prepares a new Regulation 0 for an international whole vehicle type approval. For making it attractive for new countries a certain level of flexibility is needed; two suggestions are made:

• - the secretariat of UNECE suggested a two levels of stringency, level 00 on the lowest level and level 01 of the highest level for the European Union; amendments would have the format of a supplement,

and

• - OICA suggested the approach of a universal type approval with the application of several separate regulation and a lower level on the basis is (some) previous versions of separate UN regulation as a type approval with limited acceptance.

Both subgroups will meet again in January 2013, where the suggestions for amending the 1958 Agreement and the draft Regulation should include proposals from DETA on the application of DETA and the Unique Identifier. These groups might also discuss a proposal from the Netherlands on the numbering of type approvals and their marking.

As one of the major tasks the informal group DETA also considered document DETA-16-04 from the expert from the UK in which an entry will be introduced in the revised 1958 Agreement for the use of the DETA system in article 5 and an Unique Identifier in article 2. Further details (like the use of DETA) should be specified in an appendix [X] to the Agreement.

DETA shall be used where a regulation requires so or when a copy of an approval is requested. The documents to be stored in the database shall be those specified in each Regulation. Where the approval is stored in the database the “standard” approval marking may be replaced by the Unique Identifier. The document is after discussion revised as DETA-16-04rev.1 . Up to 7 December it is possible to send comments on this document to the secretariat of DETA; after that, the result will be sent to WP.29 as official document and to the subgroups of IWVTA as well for discussion in their January meetings. Document DETA-15-06 has been superseded by DETA-16-04Rev.1.

IG-DETA also discussed the topic of access rights and concluded that, once the systems is operational, this has to arranged in a guidance document.

The IG also agreed that document DETA-15-03-rev.1 with amendments to the draft Regulation 0 should be forwarded to the IWVTA-SGR0 as input from the DETA group. If adopted by that SGR0 there is no need to send it to WP.29 as well.