24. The secretariat recalled the discussion at the November 2015 session of the Executive Committee of the 1998 Agreement (AC.3). He recalled that the 1998 Agreement specifies, in order to amend a Global Technical Regulation (GTR), that a request for authorization to develop an amendment would be adopted by AC.3 GRRF agreed to first make further progress on the work under agenda item 5(a) and then proceed with the development of amendments to GTR No. 3 and the corresponding request for authorization to develop an amendment to GTR No. 3.