Working Party on Passive Safety | Session 72 | 5-9 Dec 2022
Geneva

The 72nd GRSG session is scheduled to be held in Geneva from 5 December (2.30 p.m.) to 9 December (12.30 p.m.) 2022. The deadline for the submission of official documents to the secretariat is 12 September 2022, twelve weeks prior to the session.

Agenda Item 20.
Securing Children in Buses and Coaches

47. The expert from Spain, Chair of the IWG on safer transport of children in buses and coaches informed GRSP about the progress (GRSP-72-03). She confirmed that the group was developing a first phase on the use of ECRS that were approved according to UN Regulation No. 129 with 3-point safety-belts and or ISOFIX built-in systems. In Phase 2, she added that IWG would assess ECRS in combination with the 2-point belt. She then introduced GRSP-72-02 as a first draft of the new UN Regulation.

48. GRSP agreed to resume discussion on a revised document (based on GRSP-72-02), resolving the remaining issues in square brackets, submitted by the expert from Spain as an official document to the May 2023 session of GRSP.

Documentation
GRSP-72-02 Proposal for a new UN Regulation concerning the Safer Transport of Children in Buses and Coaches (Spain)
GRSP-72-03 STCBC informal group status report to GRSP (Spain)