82. The representative of Germany, on behalf of the IWG on DETA presented the status report (WP.29-178-22) of the activities of the group, and the report of the last session (WP.29-178-23). He informed WP.29 that DETA was operational for the exchange of type approval documentation and that 16 contracting parties already had notified [Germany of] their DETA focal point. He explained that DETA was still being developed to include the Unique Identifier (UI) and the Declaration of Conformance (DoC) functionalities. He presented the expected timeline for their implementation. He invited WP.29 to consider for endorsement the specifications of UI (WP.29-178-26/Rev.1) and DoC (WP.29-178-25). He recommended that WP.29 invite GRs, in the context of UI, to consider whether current additional marking provisions were still to be considered part of the approval marking and could be replaced by the UI marking, or these additional markings have an information character and could be provided by alternative means (e.g. insertion in the Communication Form). WP.29 agreed with this suggestion. This was necessary as the current version of the software was not able to render all marking variations

83. The secretariat insisted on the need to review the specifications of the DETA software extensions (delivering UI and DoC) as these would be the basis for developing these functions and as future amendments to them could have financial implications. He added that IWG was informed of difficulties for the involved parties, software house and sponsors, to establish contracts because contractual clauses would involve parties not being signatories of the contact (e.g. the DETA host).

84. The Chair of the IWG on IWVTA presented, on behalf of the IWG on DETA, WP.29-178-21 proposing amendments to the proposed Annex 6 of draft 02 series of amendments to UN Regulation No. 0. The representatives of the United Kingdom and OICA noted the additional workload required from the industry in order to generate the DoC because the storage format of Type Approval documents currently does not allow automatic generation from already available data. WP.29 requested the secretariat to distribute WP.29-178-21 and WP.29-178-05 with an official symbol at the November 2019 session of WP.29/AC.1.

85. WP.29 took note of the specifications and application guidelines for UI and DoC (WP.29-178-24, WP.29-178-25 and WP.29-178-26/Rev.1) and requested the secretariat to issue them as official documents.

Status report on the development and operation of the DETA system. The DETA system, based at KBA in Germany, is now operational for the purpose of exchanging type approval documentation among Contracting Parties to the 1958 Agreement.

T-Systems input regarding extension of the DETA application to include the IWVTA DoC.

Discussion of the UI use and functions within the DETA software application.

DETA functionalities based on document DETA-26-08 including cost and lead time estimations.

Update on the development of the DETA database application.

The representative of the software house T-Systems explains the state of play. There is no issue with regard to the first step of exchanging approvals (pdf files) between Type Approval Authorities. With regard to the second step, where manufacturers are involved exchanging information on single vehicles (DoC), the representative requests, for technical reasons, to include the variant/version into the attributes. However, as the “type” refers to one conformance level only, it is concluded that the attribute “type” should be sufficient. The representative of T-Systems will confirm before next meeting if this is achievable.

Also it is decided that the grey coloured solutions in document DETA-21-04e need to be deleted as these solutions are not yet agreed with.
The group furthermore confirmed that it is the manufacturers responsibility to upload the correct VIN information to DETA.