Working Party on Passive Safety | Session 60 | 13-16 Dec 2016
Geneva
Agenda Item 14.
Regulation No. 44

27. The expert from the Netherlands introduced ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSP/2016/14 aimed at excluding dangerous interpretations on the installation of CRS and proposing an angle limit for the lap belts of minimum of 10°. The expert from Japan raised a reservation to the proposed value. The expert from the Netherlands also introduced GRSP-60-15 (superseding ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSP/2016/18) and gave a presentation (GRSP-60-19) to avoid diverging interpretation of the Regulation. GRSP agreed to resume discussion on this subject at its May 2017 session and requested the secretariat to distribute GRSP-60-15 with an official symbol at its May 2017 session.

28. The expert from France introduced a presentation on inflatable booster showing test results that he had conducted. The expert from Canada informed GRSP about an additional testing requirement in his country that limits the importation and sale of current designs of this type of booster (GRSP-60-25). The limitation results from a Quasi-Static test that is noted in Section 408 of Canada Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (CMVSS) 213.2 and Section 4 of Test Method 213.2.

29. The expert from the Netherlands presented GRSP-60-14 on the description of the “new-born” manikins Q0 and P0. GRSP agreed to resume discussion on this subject at its May 2017 session on the basis of a revised proposal tabled by the expert from the Netherlands.

30. Finally, GRSP noted GRSP-60-02, tabled by the expert from the Netherlands, to prevent the use of a Unique Identifier (UI), as allowed in future Revision 3 of the 1958 Agreement, since the type approval mark carries relevant information for the users. GRSP requested the secretariat to distribute GRSP-60-02 with an official symbol at its May 2017 session.

Documentation
GRSP-60-02 Collective amendments to Regulations Nos. 44 and 129 (Netherlands)
GRSP-60-14 Draft Supplement 13 to the 04 series of amendments to UN R44: Description of the "new-born" manikins Q0 and P0 (Netherlands)
GRSP-60-15 Draft Supplement 13 to the 04 series of amendments to Regulation No.44 (Netherlands)
GRSP-60-19 Explanation of the proposal for Supplement 13 to the 04 series of amendments to Regulation No. 44 (Netherlands)
GRSP-60-25 Evaluating Child Safety Innovations: Have we got the right tools and the right test methodologies? (Canada)
GRSP/2016/14 Proposal for a Supplement to Regulation No. 44 (Netherlands)
GRSP/2016/18 Proposal for Supplement 13 to the 04 series of amendments to Regulation No. 44 (Netherlands)