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5. Review Terms of Reference and Rules and Rules of Procedure

- Chairman said it was not his intention to have final agreement on this today but to exchange views in order to have a document to be submitted in June (GRPE).
- IMMA suggested the potential need for sub-groups to be mentioned in the ToR, and added that the timing foreseen (2016) seems challenging.
- The chairman replied that the timeline needs to be discussed within the group. Regarding the need for subgroups
the chairman argued for a simple structure where ad-hoc groups could be formed based on the need
during the work (see agenda item #7).
- India commented that the timeline is connected to the scope. If the entire L-category would be in the scope, finishing the work in 2016 will be difficult.
- As outlined in their position document (EPPR-01-06e) Japan supports the amendments (Inf.doc.GRPE-64-26) that UK submitted at last GRPE and would like to amend 2© as follows;

  • o “c) work both on Regulation under the 1958 and in particular 1998 Agreements, bearing in mind…”

- UK said they put trust on the chairman to put that trough.
- It was generally agreed that the ToR text is acceptable however the document will be discussed and decided at the next meeting of the IWG in April before submitted to GRPE.

EPPR-01-02 | Review Terms of Reference and Rules of Procedure for the EPPR informal group