Division 2

Commission and Member States experts shall participate in the preparatory work of experts groups with the objectives of facilitating the establishing in the global registry of a proposed global technical regulation or amending an existing regulation. In the course of this preparatory work, Member States experts may advance technical opinions and may participate fully in the technical discussion only on the basis of their technical expertise without binding the Community.

Otherwise, Member States which are Contracting Parties to the Parallel Agreement shall exercise rights and assume obligations under this Agreement only in the non-harmonised sector and to the extent that a global technical regulation is established in parallel with or to a technical regulation which is not binding upon the Community under the 1958 Agreement and it has not been decided by the Council, acting on qualified majority on a proposal from the Commission, that the Community shall exercise those rights and assume those obligations.