2. Mr. Rijnders, Chair of GRPE, opened the meeting, held as hybrid session, with approximately a third of participants being physically present, and welcomed the participants.

3. GRPE adopted the provisional agenda of the eighty-sixth session (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRPE/2022/9), as updated and consolidated in GRPE-86-01-Rev.2, and GRPE-86-02 as a tentative running order.

4. The informal documents distributed before and during the GRPE session are listed in Annex I of the session report. Annex II lists the informal meetings held in conjunction with this GRPE session. Annex III lists the Informal Working Groups (IWGs) of GRPE, task forces and subgroups, giving details on their Chairs, Secretaries and the end of their mandates.

5. The secretariat introduced GRPE-86-03, announcing details for the next GRPE session. He informed GRPE the corresponding deadline for the submission of official documents would therefore be Tuesday 18 October 2022.

6. The representatives from Australia, Japan and the European Commission requested to keep the possibility for remote connection to the GRPE sessions in 2023, to allow for potential uncertainties linked with the still unstable sanitary situation.