Draft form for pre-testing participants to use in reporting errors, concerns, or other issues during the validation phase of the international whole vehicle type approval regulation.

The informal group noted a presentation by the representative of the UK type approval authority on a position paper, which explains key elements of the system which have been discussed in the informal group. It deals with the objectives, the stakeholders, the progress to date, the approval marking, the benefits of the system, the legal basis, the financing, the database design inclusive access, inputs, outputs and the database administration. It was stressed that there might be legal problems related to the liability of the data when that is used for other purposes than type approval, like for enforcment. The position paper contains points for which further action is needed.