WP.29/2017/118
Proposal for Supplement 5 to the 04 series of amendments to UN Regulation No. 12
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Date
23 Aug 2017
Status
Adopted
Subject
Impact
04 series of amendments | Supplement 5
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Proposal to enable approval testing under UN R137 as an alternative to UN R12 in order to avoid redundant testing requirements. The proposal adds references to the steering gear provisions of UN R137 (full width frontal impact) as a compliance alternative in parallel to the current references similarly allowing compliance via provisions in UN R94 (offset deformable barrier frontal impact).

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GRSP/2017/6
Draft Supplement 5 to the 04 series of amendments to Regulation No. 12 (Superseded)
Excerpts from session reports
GRSP | Session 61 | 8-12 May 2017

12. The expert from OICA introduced ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSP/2017/6, to allow alternative requirements of Regulation No. 137 to avoid redundancy of testing. GRSP adopted the proposal not amended. The secretariat was requested to submit ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSP/2017/6 as draft Supplement 5 to the 04 series of amendments to UN Regulation No. 12, for consideration and vote at the November 2017 sessions of WP.29 and of the Administrative Committee of the 1958 Agreement (AC.1).

WP.29 | Session 173 | 14-17 Nov 2017
With 34 of the 43 Contracting Parties applying UN R12 present and voting, AC.1 adopted document WP.29/2017/118 by a vote of 34 in favor, 0 opposed, with 0 abstaining.
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