103. Submitted for consideration and vote, the proposed Amendment 1 (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2010/134 and Corr.1) to global technical regulation No. 9 was established in the Global Registry on 10 November 2010 by consensus vote of the following Contracting Parties present and voting:

Australia, Canada, People’s Republic of China, European Union (voting for Cyprus, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom), India, Japan, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, Russian Federation, South Africa, and the United States of America.

104. The technical report (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2010/135 and Corr.1) and the adopted proposal for the development of the gtr (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/AC.3/23) will be appended to the established amendment to the gtr.

83. Agenda item 16.1, gtr No. 9, pedestrian safety. Regarding the incorporation of the flexible legform impactor (Flex-PLI) into gtr No. 9, the representative of the United States of America reported that GRSP would give priority on this proposal to solve the remaining issues at the December 2010 session of GRSP (see para. 32 above). Regarding the proposal for amendments to the gtr to exempt flat front vehicles and the proposal for a corrigendum to improve the headform test procedure, the representative of the United States of America informed AC.3 that the two proposals were recommended by GRSP, at its May 2010 session, for consideration by AC.3 at its November 2010 session.