72. The World Forum considered draft amendments under agenda items 4.14.1 to 4.14.3 and recommended their submission to AC.1 for voting.
73. The representative of ETRTO highlighted the importance of a new UN Regulation on tyre abrasion for C1 tyres (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2026/138), being a result of more than 8 years of the tyre industry internal work and 4 years of the intense work of GRBP and the dedicated task force. He considered the new Regulation as a major contribution to combatting microplastic pollution and stressed the active participation of EU, Japan, ETRTO, JATMA and OICA in this work.
74. The representative of JATMA expressed its long-standing dedication to the development of the indoor drum test method. He called for a technology-neutral solution for test methods and stressed the necessity to continue working on improving the equivalence criteria. He also pointed out the need for technology-neutrality in the deliberations for C2 and C3 tyres, which present greater complexity across countries.