9. The expert from Australia, on behalf of the Chair of the informal working group on Pole Side Impact (PSI), introduced GRSP-52-07, including the last progress report of the group and a draft of the UN GTR. He explained that the draft was provided to gather comments from GRSP experts to be sent in writing to the Chair of the informal working group by 25 January 2013. He underlined that comments were particularly sought on Annex 2 of Part II of the draft UN GTR, which was setting out the seating procedure for the test dummy (50th percentile male dummy). Concerning the scope, the expert from OICA argued that real-world data indicated the low involvement of N1 and N2 category of vehicles in PSI accidents and proposed their removal from the scope. The expert from Australia explained that the Contracting Parties (CPs) to the 1998 Agreement had the discretion to exclude particular vehicle types for which there were sufficient national safety measures to justify the restraint application of the UN GTR (see GRSP-52-07, Part I, para. 47).

10. GRSP agreed to resume consideration on this agenda item at its May 2013 session and noted that AC.3 at its November 2012 session agreed to fix the deadline for the Phase 1 of the informal working group at March 2014 (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/1099, para. 105) Moreover, the secretariat was requested to distribute GRSP-52-07 (only the part related to the draft UN GTR) with an official symbol.