Switzerland abstained during the vote on this new regulation.

112. The World Forum considered the proposal for a new UN Regulation on Event Data Recorders for Heavy-Duty Vehicles under agenda items 4.13.1 and recommended its submission to AC.1 for voting.

113. The representative of OICA noted that there were some inconsistencies for vehicles between 8,000 kg and 12,000 kg and highlighted that work would be needed to be done to resolve these inconsistencies as quickly as possible .

114. The representative of Canada encouraged countries who will be implementing this regulation to share the information with those countries who were developing the UN GTR of the same nature on the applicability of this regulation. He noted that crash data were important to obtain and encouraged countries to try to share their collective experience.