Working Party on Noise (GRB) General information and WP.29 highlights Informal document GRBP-70-13 (70th GRBP, 11-13 September 2019, agenda items 1 and 12) Note by the secretariat Working Party on Noise (GRB) General information and WP.29 highlights Participants/Address list A provisional address list has been prepared: please check your contact data (especially the email-address) and correct them, if necessary, then sign to confirm your presence. If your name not listed, fill out one of the registration forms annexed to the file. At the end of the session, we will circulate the updated address list by email to all participants. Tax free petrol coupons For delegates of Contracting Parties: as usual, tax free petrol coupons are available Please fill in the details requested and return them to the secretariat Copies of passport and car registration papers are needed for this purpose Next session The next session will be held on 28 – 31 January 2020 The deadline for the submission of official working documents is 4 November 2019 For new pictures with notes, all text should be editable. No text as an embedded image!

Highlights of the last session(s) of WP.29 March 2019 (177th) Draft amendments to Schedule 4 of the 1958 Agreement (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2018/165) adopted, with the aim to clarify approval numbering. Entry into force expected by the end of 2019 WP.29 noted that candidates of UN Regulations applicable to IWVTA Phase II were referred to the responsible GRs for review, with a request to report the outcome of their reviews to IWG on IWVTA by June 2019 at the latest WP.29 noted the official startup of DETA on 18 March 2019 and requested that all Type Approval Authorities (TAA) of Contracting Parties to the 1958 Agreement start using DETA as soon as possible (access rights were given in Annex V) WP.29 reminded that changes to the national Type Approval Authorities and designated Technical Services should be introduced by the national Single Points of Contact (SPOC) via the “343 app”. Notifications received on paper will no longer be followed up by the secretariat, as previously agreed by WP.29 See report in ECE/TRANS/WP.29/1145

Highlights of the last session(s) of WP.29 June 2019 (178th) AC.2 reviewed the revised Programme of Work for WP.29 (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2019/1/Rev.1) and welcomed the work on strategic planning by the Chairs of GRBP and GRPE WP.29 noted that, in November 2019, IWG IWVTA would submit amendment proposals to the original version and to the 01 series amendments to UN Regulation No. 0 as well as a proposal for the 02 series of amendments to UN Regulation No. 0. IWG also planned to submit a revised list of UN Regulations for IWVTA, Phase 2 WP.29 noted that DETA was still being developed to include the Unique Identifier (UI) and the Declaration of Conformance (DoC) functionalities, together with the expected timeline for their implementation See report in ECE/TRANS/WP.29/1147