115. The representative of the EU stated that the credibility of the 1998 Agreement concerning the implementation of the UN GTRs, was based on two pillars: (i) the capacity of adopting regulations and the implementation of them, and (ii) following the rules of the Agreement. He considered that the monitoring of the implementation of the UN GTRs was not completely satisfactory and, in order to improve the situation, he offered as an example to present at the next session of AC.3 the state of the art of the status of the Agreement in the EU regarding their transposition, including the difficulties encountered during this process. He suggested giving this presentation at every AC.3 session. He requested that all the sessions include the monitoring as an agenda item. He asked for comments from the other Contracting Parties. The representative of the United Kingdom questioned the feasibility, in terms of workload and time, to perform this exercise three times a year. He suggested that AC.3 requests Contracting Parties to produce annual status reports instead. The secretariat informed AC.3 that the current status document of the 1998 Agreement (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/1073/Rev.5) contained all the information on the implementation, which had been reported by the Contracting Parties for each of the UN GTRs. This status document clearly shows that the obligation of annual information given by all Contracting Parties had not been properly fulfilled by some Contracting Parties. The Chair invited the Contracting Parties to check the information available in ECE/TRANS/WP.29/1073/Rev.5 and its Amendment 1. AC.3 delegates were urged to provide updated information to the secretariat. As a further possible solution, the representative of the Russian Federation suggested laying out the situation on the progress of transposition of all UN GTRs into the national legislation as done by his country in one single status report sent through the electronic system.

116. The secretariat invited the Contracting Parties to use, for the transmission of notifications in the framework of the 1998 Agreement, the existing communication system through their Permanent Missions in Geneva, which had been developed following the instructions provided by the Office of Legal Affairs (OLA). AC.3 noted that all the notifications were available on line.