GAR | GRSP-79-27

GRSP-79-27

Draft proposal for a new UN Regulation concerning the approval of M2 and M3 vehicles to assist in the prevention of children being left inside the vehicle

Source(s)

Date

31 May 2026

Status

Subject

Children left in vehicles

Meeting(s)

GRSP | Session 79 | 1-5 Jun

Agenda item 5. New UN Global Technical Regulation on children left in vehicles

Proposal to establish requirements for vehicles of categories M₂ and M₃ class B and III designed or equipped primarily for the carriage of children:

Requiring physical inspection systems to assist in the prevention of children being left inside the vehicle after journey completion,
specifying that such systems shall be engaged when the vehicle master control switch is turned off,
shall generate external visual and audible warnings within 3 minutes for vehicles not exceeding 22 passenger seats or within 5 minutes for vehicles exceeding 22 passenger seats if not disarmed via an inspection confirmation device located behind the rearmost passenger seat,
that external warnings shall consist of type approved direction indicator lamps flashing at the same frequency for at least 15 seconds with intervals of no greater than 30 seconds repeating in cycles of no less than 10 minutes and audible warnings greater than 60dB(A) following the same timing,
and establishing test procedures, conformity of production requirements, approval procedures, modification and extension provisions, and notification procedures to the United Nations secretariat.

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Excerpts from session reports

GRSP | Session 79 | 1-5 Jun

11. The expert from Australia presented the status report of the IWG on Children Left in Vehicles (IWG-CLIV) (informal document GRSP-79-26), including meetings held by the IWG, proposals discussed at other GRs and future work. He also presented informal document GRSP-79-27 with a first draft of a new UN Regulation on CLIV for buses (M2 and M3 vehicles). GRSP discussed several topics including the incorporation of data submitted by the United States of America into the work of the IWG on a new UN GTR, prevention of false alarms, differences by country in procedures of embarking and disembarking school buses, intersection with ADS and the potential for deactivation of the CLIV features when buses were not used to transport children. The expert from Australia requested GRSP experts to send him any additional feedback before 10 June 2026 so that the group could incorporate it and submit a working document to the December 2026 session of GRSP.