Mr. Zander presented an overview on document GTR9-6-08. He pointed out that it is not the intention of BASt to change the injury criteria. Mr. Zander explained the process used at BASt to derive the threshold values and noted that his approach was slightly different than the approach of JAMA/JARI. He also highlighted the agreements made during the work of the former FlexPLI Technical Evaluation Group (TEG) on the FlexPLI thresholds. He concluded that, however, as both approaches were combined the impactor threshold values also depend on the actual performance of the latest impactor version and therefore should be adapted accordingly, if necessary.

Mr. Zander then presented the process used by BASt to define the injury criteria and to derive the impactor thresholds in more detail (document GTR9-6-08r1). He pointed out that the BASt approach is based on the same original approach as the Japanese one but was then decided to use different data. However, both approaches lead to injury thresholds and were finally leveled in the Technical Evaluation Group. On request of Mr. Martin Mr. Zander explained that the JASIC approach is not based on tests with the original legform prototypes but the BASt approach does consider these test results at a certain point in the process. After some discussion on this it was agreed that Mr. Zander and Mr. Takahashi will develop a joint document explaining the two approaches to derive the impactor thresholds and especially where the differences are. It was agreed that this should be done by the 1st week of May 2013 (action item A-6-10).