1. Working Party on Noise (GRB) General information and WP.29 highlights
Informal document GRB-64-12
(64th GRB, 5-7 September 2016,
agenda items 1 and 15)
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 -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 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 February 2017
The deadline for the submission of official working documents is 18 November 2016
See Annex III to ECE/TRANS/WP.29/1123 (calendar of meetings for 2017)

2. Highlights of the last sessions of WP.29
March 2016 (168th)
Opening statements by Ms. Eva Molnar, Director, UNECE Transport Division and by Mr. Jean Todt, UN Secretary-General Special Envoy for Road Safety
Rev. 3 of the 1958 Agreement: the European Council supported the 4/5 majority, the European Parliament to confirm
QRTV Regulation adopted, would enter into force in October 2016
Proposal by Turkey to establish a new Regulation on reverse sound warning
For more details see: ECE/TRANS/WP.29/1120
June 2016 (169th)
First time participation of Malta in WP.29 as full member and their statement
Rev. 3 of the 1958 Agreement endorsed, EU to proceed with notification process to OLA
Performance of systems in conditions different from the approval tests discussed, GRs to provide feedback
For more details see: ECE/TRANS/WP.29/1123