Mr. Kaganov, delegate from the Ministry of Industry and trade of the Russian Federation started the meeting and introduced Mr. Alexander Gurko, President of GLONASS UNION and the expert responsible for Era-GLONASS project.

The attendees were informed that infrastructure in the Russian Federation (RUS) is currently being completed. RUS is confident that the RUS system achieved good compromises. 2014 will see the start of the complete testing. The system should be in place for processing real emergency calls by 2015.

The UNECE Secretariat recalled the discussions which took place at WP29 at its June 2013 session (see document ECE/TRANS/WP29/1104, paragraphs 74-76).

52. GRSG noted the submission by the Russian Federation of an official proposal (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2013/67) for an new UN Regulation on e-call systems and the decision of WP.29 (see report ECE/TRANS/WP.29/1104, paras. 74-76) to establish a new informal working group on Automatic Emergency Call System (AECS) under the responsibility of GRSG.

46. GRSG noted the outcome of the discussion on this subject at the June 2013 session of WP.29 (see report ECE/TRANS/WP.29/1104, paras. 56-61). The expert from Japan introduced GRSG-105-12 proposing updated review of all candidate Regulations identified for the IWVTA scheme under the responsibility of GRSG.

42. GRSG noted a recommendation by the Chairs of the Working Parties subsidiary to WP.29 to insert the new provisions for granting revisions and extension to type approvals into the Consolidated Resolution on the Construction of Vehicles (R.E.3) and to refer in the corresponding UN Regulations to that part of R.E.3 (see report ECE/TRANS/WP.29/1104, para. 19). GRSG also noted that the World Forum was expected to consider a concrete proposal for a new Annex A.5 to the R.E.3 (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2013/126) during the forthcoming session in November 2013. The expert from OICA announced that the informal group on the International Whole Vehicle Type Approval (IWVTA) already inserted the new provisions on revisions and extension to type approvals into draft Revision 3 to the 1958 Agreement (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2013/134).

43. Recalling the adoption of draft amendments to UN Regulations Nos. 18, 34, 35, 43 and 58 at its previous session, GRSG agreed to reconsider the follow-up actions of ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2013/8, awaiting the decision of WP.29.

6. The Secretary provided an update on the approval of the terms of reference by AC.3. The Secretary reminded participants that at the 158th session of the WP.29, held in November 2012, the AC.3/WP.29 requested that the Terms of Reference and a Progress Report for the EVE be presented at the 159th session, to be held in March 2013. The EVE Secretariat has submitted and obtained approval of documents GRPE-65-03 and GRPE-65-04 by GRPE in January 2013. The Terms of Reference were subsequently added to the GRPE 65th session report for presentation at AC.3 (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRPE/65). The GRPE report was, however, not submitted in time for presentation to AC.3 at the 159th session in March and was instead submitted for adoption at the 160th session in June 2013. The Secretary confirmed the 65th GRPE report was approved by WP.29 in June 2013, and as a result the terms of reference were also approved (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/1104).