Working Party on Passive Safety | Session 53 | 13-17 May 2013
Geneva
Agenda Item 8.
Regulation No. 14 (Safety-belt anchorages)

20. The expert from OICA introduced ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSP/2013/3, aimed at introducing exemptions for vehicles not intended to transport children during normal use. The expert from United Kingdom suggested that the proposal should include amendments to the type approval certificate (Annex 1 of the UN Regulation) which clearly address this exemption. Finally, GRSP adopted ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSP/2013/3 as amended by Annex III to this report and requested the secretariat to submit it to WP.29 and AC.1, for consideration and vote at their November 2013 sessions as draft Supplement 5 to the 07 series of amendments to the UN Regulation.

21. GRSP considered ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSP/2013/4 aimed at exempting vehicles with one seating position per row from ISOFIX provisions. He justified that new concepts designed for urban mobility would not technically allow the installation of ISOFIX anchorages. The proposal received comments from the German expert (GRSP-53-11) arguing that the ISOFIX system should be promoted as much as possible in a broad range of vehicle configurations. The expert from OICA argued that GRSP-53-11 would not consider the consequences of vehicle weight increase (approximately 1 kg) and national legislation in several countries that forbid the transport of children on front seats. In principle, GRSP agreed to further study the ISOFIX requirements to address new mobility solutions. Thereby, GRSP agreed to resume discussion at its December 2013 session, based on comments (i.e. list of concept vehicle configurations) provided by the IWG on child restraints systems (CRS) and from the experts of Contracting Parties to the 1958 Agreement. Moreover, the secretariat was requested to distribute GRSP-53-11 with an official symbol and to have ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSP/2011/9 as a reference on the agenda of the next session.

Documentation
GRSP-53-11 Proposal for amendment to UN Regulation No. 14 (Germany)
GRSP/2011/9 Proposal for Supplement 3 to the 07 series of amendments to Regulation No. 14 (Germany)
GRSP/2013/3 Proposal for Supplement 5 to the 07 series of amendments to UN Regulation No. 14 (OICA)
GRSP/2013/4 Proposal for Supplement 5 to the 07 series of amendments to UN Regulation No. 14 (OICA)