9. The Chair of GRSP, on behalf of who is the Chair of the IWG, informed GRSP that NHTSA would like to withdraw as Chair of the IWG due to a lack of resources and other priorities at the agency, and urged to find a solution. The expert from Germany reiterated his statement at the December 2017 session of GRSP (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSP/62, para. 10) that the addenda of the M.R.1, incorporating anthropomorphic test devices (crash test dummies), particularly of side impact dummies (e.g. World Side Impact Dummy fiftieth percentile), specifications, be completed as soon as possible. He regretted a lack of progress. He hoped that a solution would be jointly recommended by the representative of the United Kingdom and his delegation at the June 2018 sessions of WP.29 and AC.3.

10. The expert from Sweden informed GRSP about her administration’s plan to study dummies that are currently on the market for gaps in the coverage of all categories of occupants. The expert from EC added that his organization was also interested in this activity and offered to cooperate.