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This report summarizes the activities and results from the first year of the FFI funded projects ”Boundary Conditions for Vehicle Automation”, with partners Autoliv, SAFER, Scania, Volvo Cars and Volvo Group. To give Sweden a leading position within automated driving, a common arena for competition neutral research will be both an enabler and a requirement, since no single actor can build the necessary competences, resources, test beds etc. The concept of automated driving as described in this document builds, to a large extent, on cooperative vehicles and hence collaboration between manufacturers and infrastructure owners are vital. This project has started building such a common arena, with creative workshops, state-­‐of-­‐art and scientific reports, and pre-­‐studies for proposed research projects. A white paper has been written, stating the project partners’ recommendations for which areas the Swedish research within automated driving should be directed. This project is the first step of a planned continuous work with a total 5-­‐year horizon, hence at least up to 2017. Coordination with other initiatives in the area is needed and assumed.