52. The secretariat informed the World Forum about the latest update of the status of the 1958 Agreement (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/343/Rev.24) containing the information received by the secretariat up to 21 October 2016. WP.29 noted that Contracting Parties shall notify the secretariat about any amendments needed to the status document.

53. The secretariat presented the architecture of a proposed online database that was being developed to streamline the updating of the status document of the 1958 Agreement (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/343/Rev.24). The World Forum welcomed the proposal to establish the database and endorsed the secretariat’s continued work on the development of the online system.