Drafting issues:
Chair introduced the process of amending the gtr text and announced to schedule a drafting meeting. Report (WLTP-08-40e) was given by S. Dubuc.

WLTP IWG received several comments from JPN, T&E and OICA members on the expert proposals in the current gtr draft (WLTP-08-04e) which were foreseen to be adopted by written procedure with deadline 31.10.2015. B. Coleman suggested to schedule drafting team meetings to have a peer review of the complete gtr draft. WLTP IWG concluded that a Drafting TF shall deal with the open points regarding expert proposals (editorial stuff, minor technical amendments, etc.) and conduct a peer review of the complete gtr. Drafting meetings to be arranged by the Drafting Coordinator. Brief introduction of new Expert Proposals to be adopted by written procedure will be in drafting taskforce if needed. Schedule for drafting taskforce will be established by Chair until 12/2014.

Chair clarified that all amendments from Drafting task force still need to be adopted formally by WLTP IWG later on. More fundamental issues need to be reported separately to WLTP IWG and will be added as separate discussions points to an IWG agenda, if necessary.

Indication of temperatures (°C / K, “273[.15] K”) has to be consistent within the gtr. Systematic approach will be developed by expert group (M. Bergmann, A. Feucht) and submitted to the WLTP IWG. To ensure consistency with other gtr’s, Chair will inform other GRPE IWGs, e.g. EPPR, by progress report in January GRPE.

79. Submitted for consideration and vote, the proposed draft UN GTR on WLTP (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2014/27 and its Corr.1) was established in the UN Global Registry on 12 March 2014 by consensus vote of the following Contracting Parties present and voting: Australia, China, European Union (voting for Cyprus, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom), India, Japan, Norway, Republic of Korea, Republic of Moldova, Russian Federation, South Africa and Turkey.

80. The technical report (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2014/28) and the adopted proposal for the development of the UN GTR (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/AC.3/26 and its Add.1) will be appended to the established UN GTR.

81. The representative of the Republic of Korea welcomed this new UN GTR which is closely related to fuel efficiency. He stated that his country was making every effort to provide consumers with accurate information. He announced that his country would contribute in the work of the IWG for developing Phase 2 of the UN GTR.

82. The representative of the United States of America abstained. He explained that the existing requirements in his country provided significant controls, covered many different operating systems and applied to various pile requirements. It was also explained that his
country still needed to verify the equivalence of the provisions of the UN GTR with their current national regulations. However, he stated that his country supported the UN GTR and looked forward to further contributing to aligning the two sets of regulations as part of future WLTP work. The representative of Canada also abstained providing similar justifications.

83. The representative of Germany welcomed the establishment of the UN GTR on WLTP which completes the emissions requirements for all categories of vehicles covered by UN GTRs. He thanked the co-sponsors of the UN GTR, all experts of GRPE, WLTP informal groups and task forces for their longstanding efforts.

4. Following a brief introduction from the GRPE Chair and the Technical Secretary of the WLTP informal working group, the draft manager of the WLTP UN GTR presented GRPE-67-07, outlining the development of ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRPE/2013/13 and describing the amendments proposed in GRPE-67-04-Rev.1.

6. GRPE adopted ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRPE/2013/13, as amended by GRPE-67-04- Rev.1, and requested the secretariat to submit the adopted proposal to WP.29 and AC.3 for consideration at their March 2014 session. GRPE also adopted GRPE-67-05-Rev.3, as reproduced in Annex II of the session report, including explicit references to GRPE-68-03 and GRPE-68-04 in paragraphs 51 and 73, respectively. The Chair of GRPE expressed his appreciation for the contribution of all experts that took part in the WLTP UN GTR development.