60. The Chair of the informal group on DETA reported on the outcome of the ninth meeting of the informal group held in Geneva on 21 June 2010 and announced that concrete proposals for the financing and administration of the system would be transmitted for consideration by the World Forum at its November 2010 session. He recalled that the documentation was available at the website of the DETA informal group at: http://www.unece.org/trans/main/wp29/wp29wgs/wp29gen/gendeta09.html. He requested the authorization to start a trial of the system.

He clarified that access to the database would be password secured. He confirmed that one of the objectives of the informal group was the simplification of type approval markings. He offered the support of the DETA informal group to the IWVTA informal group to ease the deployment of the documentation of IWVTA in an electronic format. The World Forum gave the authorization for the trial and agreed to resume consideration of these matters at its next session under the items covering the 1958 Agreement.