Proposal of amendments to address various concerns and reflect the outcomes of discussions with the experts from EC, Japan, the Netherlands, the Republic of Korea, United States of America and OICA.

Text prepared by the European Commission and Germany to align the test requirements of UN GTR No. 9 Phase 2 with those of Amendment 2 to the UN GTR concerning the determination of the headform test points.

Presentation of US concerns regarding proposed definitions for locating the point of measurement (i.e. measuring point, target point, and first contact point definitions) within the test zone, changes to the test zone boundaries to clarify the adult and child Head Injury Criterion (HIC) zones, and to amend the leg form test procedure to align the leg form center plane with its measuring point.

[Note: the reference to document GRSP/2011/12 does not appear to correspond with the content of the US statement. Rather, the remarks align more closely with document GRSP-54-07/Rev.1 proposing changes to the draft amendment as presented in document GRSP/2013/25).]

Review of the work behind the proposal to clarify GTR 9, in particular concerning the definition of the headform testing/contact area for measurement purposes.

Proposal from the EC to amend GTR No. 9 with regard to the measuring points of the headform and lower legform test procedures.

Text prepared by the informal expert group on the Phase 2 development of the GTR on pedestrian safety to introduce the new FlexPLI lower legform test tool into the test procedures.