117. The Chair of GRVA noted the effort made during the last 12 months from the delegations in Asia and in the Americas, due to numerous meetings taking place at unfavourable times outside regular business hours. He informed that he consulted these delegations and that it would be a clear signal of global collaboration and a promotion of the WP.29 work if GRVA meetings would take place in other regions of the world, too. He invited GRVA to consider organizing sessions in Asia and in America in 2022. The expert from Canada expressed strong support for this idea.

118. The secretariat announced that the adoption of a list of decision would take place via a silence procedure, following the recommendations of the Executive Committee of UNECE. He explained that the next session of GRVA would be organized in May or June 2021 but that no information on the precise date and duration was available to date.