Mr. Albus introduced his new colleague at the German ministry responsible for L-category vehicles: Mr. Walter Bleuler.

Mr. Albus said he would not be able to follow the meeting (remotely) the whole, and raised two points:

1. Regarding introduction of new requirements based on EU-requirement, Mr. Albus commented it is very important that we don’t introduce L-cat. issues in existing regulations for passenger cars. He gave the example of R68, R85 and R101 and suggested to maintain the scope of these regulations limited to M- (and N-) category.
2. Scope of UN regulations and gtr’s:
   
   • Under ’58 agreement, there can be an overlap of the scope.
   • But under ’98, overlap of category of vehicles is not allowed.

To the 1st point of Mr. Albus the chair replied it was his understanding that the group agreed at the 1st EPPR meeting not to mix requirements of L- and M- category vehicles. But that the group will of course look at existing specifications for cars.

TRL explained that in their interim report they indeed suggested to introducing L-cat in R68 and 85, by adding separate annex/annexes for L-cat.

Detailed discussion on this topic was then closed at that time, and it was agreed to continue the discussion under the respective agenda items (7, 8 and 9).