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8.3. Second Decade of Action for Road Safety

122. WP.29 noted ECE/TRANS/2023/7/Rev.1, concerning the UNECE Road Safety Action Plan 2023 – 2030. WP.29 further noted that ITC had invited, at its February 2024 session all its relevant Working Parties to submit in the course of 2023 their first inputs to the secretariat in the corresponding areas of the action plan that were relevant to their work and contributions. The secretariat stressed that further input was essential from the Contracting Parties to make the document comprehensive and be completed and presented at the ITC 2025 session. The representative of OICA appreciated the holistic approach of the document; however, he underlined that the terminology of crashworthiness was very open and needed clarifications including as concerns several proposals being made under the “safe vehicles” section of the document. The representative of Canada explained that the primary goal of the decade of action for road safety was to reduce road casualties by half for this decade. Following interventions by the representatives of Cameroon, Canada, France, Germany and the Secretariat, WP.29 agreed to request its members to provide comments by 20 March, 2024 to the secretariat in order to prepare an updated document (based on comments provided thus far and those provided by 20 March 2024, including a focus on WP29 activities in the Program of Work related to the Decade of Action) to be discussed during a virtual meeting among interested parties as a start.. At the same time the secretariat was requested to share the updated document with GRSP experts to touch basis on topics covering its remit. Finally, it was agreed to resume discussion on this topic at the June 2024 session of WP.29 on the basis of a revised document as a result of the above-mentioned consultations and to finalize it by November 2024 session of the World Forum.