The informal group noted two presentations by OICA on the rights (creating, reading, deleting) and the benefits of a DETA system for approval authorities, vehicle manufactures and part manufactures. A further discussion on both topics is needed in November.

Finally the informal group noted a clarification by GTB on its informal document 12 of the 157th meeting of WP.29. There are concerns in WP.29 that the present regulations are design restrictive and that many amendments are needed to facilitate innovations, very often for design reasons. Long procedures for implementing the amendments of the regulations in some countries prevent innovations to be quickly applied in those markets. Therefor GTB wants to make the regulations performance based what could result in grouping several individual device regulations into one regulation having general provisions and specific requirements for each device in an Annex. As the series of amendments will most likely be different for each device it is important to replace the approval marking by a unique identifier/number as foreseen by DETA.