GRSP-49-36
Status report of Informal Group on Frontal Impact
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Date
19 May 2011
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GRSP | Session 49 | 16-20 May 2011

30. The Chair of the informal group on Frontal collision introduced GRSP-49-36 to inform GRSP on the work progress of his group. As an outcome of the work carried out so far, he informed GRSP that four possible scenarios to amend Regulation No. 94 were possible. He concluded that the group scheduled two further meeting on 27 June and 7 September 2011 in Paris, at OICA’s office, to better define these options. Accordingly, GRSP agreed to seek consent of a six months extension of the mandate of the informal group at the June 2011 session of WP.29. Finally, GRSP invited all its experts to send their comments or proposals on the possible scenarios to amend the Regulation before the deadline for submission of official documents of its December 2011 session.

GRSP | Session 50 | 6-9 Dec 2011

31. The Chair of the informal working group on Frontal collision introduced ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSP/2011/24 through a presentation (GRSP-50-01) on the new terms of reference of the informal working group. GRSP adopted ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSP/2011/24 as reproduced in Annex V [of the session report] and sought the consent of WP.29 at its March 2012 session.

32. GRSP noted GRSP-50-03 tabled by the expert from the Netherlands, introducing test requirements for vehicles equipped with automatically activated door locking systems. The document received some comments and GRSP agreed to resume discussion on this matter on the basis of a revised proposal prepared by the expert from the Netherlands.

33. The expert from FIA Foundation informed GRSP on the results of the second Latin American New Car Assessment Programme (LANCAP) recently held. He informed that as a conclusion of the second phase of the programme, LANCAP was promoting the mandatory type approval of vehicles according to UN Regulation No. 94 as well as the mandatory use of type approved CRS to governments of Latin American countries.