The secretary presented working paper HDH-10-07. On page 5, he referred to the Terms of Reference and the timing of the work program. According to the original timing, HDH IWG should submit the final report incl. the assessment of chassis dyno and powerpack testing at the 65th GRPE in January 2013. In addition, WP.29 should review the target completion date in June 2013. Taking the current timetable into account, it will not be possible to meet these deadlines. The secretary therefore proposed to submit the final report at the 67th GRPE in January 2014, which consequently would delay GRPE adoption to June 2014. The updated roadmap, which is shown on page 6, was agreed by the IWG.

In order to start drafting the gtr, it was agreed to establish a drafting group. The chairman volunteered to chair this group, but to cope with the expected high workload a technical secretary needs to be installed. The EU Com was asked to provide the necessary budget.

Nomination of experts to the drafting group should be communicated to the secretary by the next HDH meeting. It was also agreed that beyond a couple of face-to-face meetings, web meetings will be held. The IWG considered it important that EPA and JASIC will nominate drafting group members. Basis for the gtr is the Japanese procedure in Kokujikan n° 281. JASIC will check if it can be uploaded to the HDH webpage. The first meeting of the drafting group will take place in conjunction with the 13th HDH meeting on 19 and 20 March 2013 in Borlänge.

As regards the component library, Sweden announced the availability of budget for Chalmers University to start working in parallel to validation test program 1. The main work would be done during spring 2013. The IWG members welcomed the Swedish offer and agreed to the proposal.

As regards PTO operation, EPA agreed to exclude it for the time being. Inclusion of PTO operation would be left to the Contracting Parties.

EPA agreed to send their procedure for full load powerpack mapping (pre-TM only) to the secretary for being uploaded to the HDH webpage.

Validation test program 2 can be conducted by JRC in the second half of 2013. Mr. Perujo was asked to confirm the test slot by the next meeting. He asked if engine testing would be necessary in addition to vehicle testing on the chassis dyno. TNO indicated that they have a powertrain test bench, but would need budget for running the tests. EC will test a Freightliner M2E and asked what kind of data would be useful for the HDH group. EPA asked which acceptance criteria would be applied. The secretary responded that this would be determined at the 13th HDH meeting, but any proposals would be welcome.