48. Following the request of a number of experts, the secretariat explained the difficult situation within the Transport Division about publishing the legal text of new amendments to existing Regulations. He informed GRPE about the overall delay in the publication procedure and about the current status especially of the 06 series of amendments to Regulation No. 83 which had been adopted by the World Forum in March 2010 and already entered into force in December 2010. GRPE urged the secretariat to undertake all possible measures to anticipate any delay in the publishing procedure and invited the secretariat to make publicly available, as soon as possible, the legal text of the new series of amendments starting with the english version.

49. The expert from Japan introduced GRPE-61-07 outlining the intention of his Government to focus in future, on the further reduction of limit values for exhaust gas emissions from heavy duty vehicles.