The fifth meeting of the informal group TPMS was a special meeting with a limited number of participants (Attached to the meeting report). The aim of this meeting was the preparation of a final text for a daft regulation on TPMS for passenger cars and light commercial vehicles.

As the chairman of GRRF expressed the urgency of a draft regulation which can be discussed and possibly adopted during the 65th GRRF meeting in February 2009 the group had to concentrate on the elaboration of the text and could not have lengthy discussions about technical matters which are not yet agreed by the whole group.

The chairman informed the group that he will formulate the draft text according to the results of this meeting and send it to the GRRF secretariat before 15. November 2008 that it will become an official document and all interested parties will have sufficient time to send written comments to GRRF for discussion at its 65. meeting.

This procedure seemed to be a reasonable way to comply with the wishes of the GRRF chairman and the EU Commission as the important stakeholders of TPMS , namely the EU Commission, interested governments, OICA, CLEPA and ETRTO were present at this meeting. Items where no agreement could be achieved amongst all members of the TPMS group will be put into square brackets and left open for decision by GRRF. The most important item for GRRF to decide upon will be the warning thresholds of the systems.

Furthermore GRRF will have to give advice how to proceed with vehicle categories other than M1/N1 and systems which will be offered as retrofit systems on the aftermarket.