70. The World Forum noted the consolidated document containing the status of the Agreement (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/1073/Rev.8). WP.29 noted that some Contracting Parties had fulfilled their obligation to send their status and final reports on the progress of transposition of the UN GTRs and their amendments into their domestic law. The representatives of the Contracting Parties were reminded of their obligation to send the mandatory reports on the transposition process through their Permanent Missions in Geneva via the “1998 AGREEMENT-MISSIONS List” electronic system to the secretariat. The World Forum agreed that a more detailed consideration of the monitoring of the 1998 Agreement, including details of the notification obligation would be considered under agenda item 13 of the Executive Committee AC.3 session (see para. 85 below). The representative of Japan stated that his country would transpose UN GTR No. 13 (Hydrogen and Fuel-cell vehicles) into its national legislation and confirmed that listing No. 10 of the Compendium of Candidates could be deleted as a candidate UN GTR.

71. WP.29 agreed that agenda items 5.2 to 5.5 should be considered by AC.3.

85. The Executive Committee noted the information, as of 28 October 2013, on the status of the 1998 Agreement (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/1073/Rev.8). AC.3 also noted that some Contracting Parties had not voted on a UN GTR but had voted on its Corrigenda or Amendments. AC.3 agreed to further clarify, at the next session, the notification obligations of the Contracting Parties. Representatives were reminded of their obligation to send the mandatory reports on the transposition process through their Permanent Missions in Geneva via the “1998 AGREEMENT-MISSIONS List” electronic system to the secretariat to ensure updating of the status document which is the monitoring tool of the Agreement. Assistance may be obtained from the secretariat. AC.3 considered WP.29-161-20, containing communication information from the secretariat to the Missions and to the AC.3 Heads of Delegations to new Contracting Parties to the Agreement.