Mr. Michael Olechiw, Chair of the informal working group, welcomed participants to the meeting. The meeting was well attended, with over 50 participants from contracting parties, other WP.29 working groups, and industry organizations. In addition to Mr. Olechiw, Mr. Narusawa (Co-Chair) and Ms. Marchington (acting Secretary) were present at the meeting, and Mr. Meng Xiangfeng (Co-Chair, acting on behalf of Ms. Chunmei) and Mr. Couroux (Secretary) participated in the meeting by teleconference.

Mr. Olechiw outlined the primary goals for the meeting, which were to:

a) review changes made to the EV Regulatory Reference Guide from the EVE-9 meeting (February 2014) to its submission as a formal document to the GRPE Secretariat (early March 2014), ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRPE/2014/13, and

b) discuss a new EVE mandate proposal, informal document GRPE-69-14.

The agenda for the meeting (EVE-10-02e) was reviewed and accepted by all participants. The final agenda for the meeting (EVE-10-02-Rev1e) contains an updated list of Agenda item 5 presenters.

Mr. Peter Mock, representing the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT), presented EVE-10-03e, “ICCT Report on EV Financial Incentives”, which was well received.

Summary report of the informal working group on electric vehicles and the environment on its session during 2 June 2014.