Note explaining procedures for WP.29 officer elections when consensus is not reached. By default, elections are decided by secret ballot unless the WP.29 decides to proceed without a ballot on an agreed candidate. Nominations for Chairperson and Vice Chairperson(s) should be submitted to the secretariat at least ten days before the session. Prerequisites for secret ballot elections include attendance in person by a quorum of representatives, registration of voters, ballot infrastructure, and secretariat processing of the vote.
Document lists one candidate nominated for WP.29 Chair and six candidates nominated for WP.29 Vice-Chair, with their names and nationalities. The election is scheduled for Wednesday, 18 November starting at 14:30 in Room XII.
Draft working document describing nine common concepts for managing AI risks in automotive regulated products: risk-informed lifecycle approaches, intended purpose and operational assumptions, building upon established sectoral engineering practices, traceability and documentation, data as a safety-relevant engineering artefact, confidence through multiple sources of evidence, organizational capacity and governance, continuous monitoring and improvement, and assurance arguments. The document presumes that existing regulations and established automotive safety engineering practices remain applicable where AI is part of a regulated product, and management of AI risks builds upon those regulations and practices.
This document provides the informal schedule and running order for the 200th session of WP.29, to be held in-person in Room XII from 17 to 20 November 2026. It outlines the timing and agenda items for each day, including adoption of the agenda, coordination of work, consideration of reports, 1958 Agreement discussions, AC.1 and AC.3 voting, election of officers, monitoring of the 1998 Agreement, progress on UN GTRs, 1997 Agreement items, and adoption of the report. The schedule may be adjusted during the session depending on progress of work.
Report on the secure internet database for exchanging approval documentation between Contracting Parties of the 1958 Agreement. Forty-one Contracting Parties have notified their DETA Focal Point. Approximately 153,300 approvals have been uploaded by 23 Technical Approval Authorities, with approximately 8,700 manufacturers uploaded. Twenty manufacturers and four Technical Services have access to DETA. Migration to a new software version is underway with internal and external testing. New features include two-factor authentication, mailing and notification functions, additional languages, and easier administrator adaptations.
Guidance document for approval authorities on using DETA to implement UN Regulation No. 155. Notifying authorities shall upload cyber security information as PDF files no later than 14 days before granting a first-time approval, complete mandatory fields including approval number and date, and send a notification message to other authorities via DETA. Other approval authorities may submit comments within 14 days of notification by email and DETA message. Notifying authorities shall upload received comments to DETA without undue delay. These procedures apply before first-time approvals and each time assessment methods or criteria are updated.
The 57th session of the Informal Working Group on DETA will be held on Friday 13 November 2026, 9:30-12:30 (CET), as a hybrid meeting at the OICA office in Paris. The provisional agenda includes approval of DETA-57-01e rev1, approval of draft minutes DETA-57-02e, state of play, new DETA software version, widening DETA’s scope, potential use for sharing technical information regarding proposed GRPE UN Regulation on brake emission of non-original parts, adding an attribute to indicate latest series of amendments of approvals, potential update of the IWG’s Terms of Reference (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2008/117) per DETA-54-03e-rev1, initial draft amending Guidelines for use of DETA regarding Cyber Security exchange due to new DETA software version per DETA-57-03e, report to WP.29 per DETA-57-04e, and next meetings.
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86. WP.29 noted that no document had been submitted under this agenda item.