Messrs. Renders (Co-vice-chairman/Chairman of SG58/EC),
Onoda (Co-vice-chairman/Chairman of SGR0/Japan), Hubert (UNECE TD), Australia, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, the Russian Federation, South Africa, Spain, United Kingdom, OICA, CLEPA, ETRTO, JASIC
Total: 29 participants

1 Mr. J. Renders, European Commission / Co-vice-chairman
2 Mr. Takao Onoda, JAPAN / Co-vice-chairman
3 Mr. Romain Hubert, UNECE TD
4 Mr. Harry Jongenelen, The Netherlands / RDW
5 Mr. Richard Damm, Germany / BMVBS
6 Mr. Sven Paeslack, Germany / KBA
7 Mr. Steve Morgan, South Africa
8 Mr. Lluis Sans, Spain/ IDIADA
9 Mr. Boris Kisulenko, The Russian Federation
10 Mr. Andrey Bocharov, The Russian Federation
11 Mr. Robert Hogan, Australia/VSS
12 Mr. Steven Hoy, Australia/VSS
13 Mr. Ian Yarnold, UK/ DOT
14 Mr. Akihiro Ban, Japan/ MLIT
15 Mr. Kenichi Hayashi, Japan/ NTSEL
16 Mr. Yves van der Straaten, OICA/ Secretariat
17 Mr. Peter Schramm, OICA/ Daimler
18 Mr. Haldun Turan, OICA/ Renault
19 Mr. Tadaomi Akiba, OICA/ JAMA
20 Mr. Yoshiyuki Bessho, OICA/ JAMA
21 Mr. Toshiharu Matsuoka, OICA/ JAMA Europe
22 Mr. Torsten Janzyk, OICA/ VW
23 Mr. Piet Renneboog, OICA/ Honda
24 Mr. Louis-Sylvain Ayral, CLEPA
25 Mr. Jean-Claude Noirhomme , ETRTO
26 Mr. Takahiro Ikari, Japan/ JASIC
27 Mr. Michio Miyamoto, Japan/ JASIC
28 Mr. Yoshihiro Morita, Japan/ JASIC
29 Mr. Ryuzo Oshita, Japan/ JASIC, Technical Secretary

Co-vice-chairmen chaired the 14th session of the IG meeting on behalf of its Chairman. The provisional agenda was adopted without any comments.

The report of the 13th IWVTA Informal Group meeting was adopted without any comments.

IWVTA-14-01 | Minutes of the 13th IWVTA informal group session

The Chairman of SGR0 explained the paper “Progress towards an International Whole Vehicle Type Approval Scheme” (doc.No. WP.29-161-17) to be submitted to WP.29 in the following week.

WP.29-161-17 | Progress Towards an International Whole Vehicle Type Approval Scheme Progress report from the expert group working on the IWVTA regulation providing on overview of the proposed whole vehicle regulation, issues for attention of the World Forum, and consideration of future development.

The Russian Federation asked about the permanent working group to oversee UN R0 mentioned in the paper from the viewpoints of its organization (new or existing one) and budgetary background. The Chairman of SGR0 responded that it would be necessary to consider the issues by the Sub-group.

WP.29-161-17 | Progress Towards an International Whole Vehicle Type Approval Scheme Progress report from the expert group working on the IWVTA regulation providing on overview of the proposed whole vehicle regulation, issues for attention of the World Forum, and consideration of future development.

Germany reminded the Sub-group members of its proposal submitted to the 9th IWVTA Informal Group meeting back in March 2012 to establish a permanent group for the IWVTA process (refer to doc.No. IWVTA-09-06). Germany continued that establishing a permanent informal group linked to WP.29 and AC1 might be a practical approach and that it had an intention to submit a document on this issue at the next Sub-group meeting.

IWVTA-09-06 | Proposal to establish a permanent group for the IWVTA process At the 7th IWVTA group meeting, Germany suggested the creation of a permanent group to guide the IWVTA process after the adoption of UN R0. The group would manage the procedure, ensure a certain level of quality of IWVTA approvals and be an open platform for exchange of information.

EC recommended attaching a hyperlink to doc .No. IWVTA-SGR0-08-13 (the latest version of draft UN R0) at the last slide of this paper.

SGR0-08-13/Rev.1 | Updated Regulation No. 0 (International Whole Vehicle Type Approval) draft Transmitted by the experts of the subgroup on UN R0 pursuant to their 9th session held during 21-22 January 2014 (Document SGR0-08-13-rev.1).

The Chairman of SG58 explained the paper “Review of the 1958 Agreement” (doc. No. WP.29-161-16) to be submitted to WP.29 in the following week.

WP.29-161-16 | Review of the 1958 Agreement Progress report on the revision to the 1958 Agreement to enable the International Whole Vehicle Type Approval system.

The Chairman of SG58 explained that the work schedule on the next steps for the review of revision 3 of the 1958 Agreement was already illustrated in slide 5 and 6 of doc.No.WP.29-161-16. It was agreed that the work schedule for IWVTA Informal Group in 2014 would be discussed at the next Sub-group meetings. It was agreed that the next Sub-group meetings will be held on 21-23 January 2014 in Sendai, Japan.

WP.29-161-16 | Review of the 1958 Agreement Progress report on the revision to the 1958 Agreement to enable the International Whole Vehicle Type Approval system.