CLEPA presentation asserting that inflatable car seat systems being approved under UN R44 fail to comply with the regulation’s requirements because the lap portion of the belt intrudes into the abdomen of the dummy, leading to a submarining situation.

Final progress report of the Informal working group on Hydrogen fuel cell vehicle GTR and the proposal to develop a global technical regulation concerning hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.

Document GRSP/2011/10 would require seats which can be tipped or folded automatically to lock in all positions, which could suggest locking in positions throughout the unfolding procedure. This submission clarifies the assumed intent of requiring seats to lock in their final positions.

Proposal for amendments to UN R12, R94, and R95 to introduce provisions for excluding the REESS coupling system in cases where testing is performed under the condition that part(s) of the high voltage system are not energized.

Because the subject of protection from direct contact with live electrical parts in the regulations concerns the “occupants”, not the “power train” as currently specified, Japan proposes to exchange the terms in the appropriate paragraphs of the subject rules.

Proposal to introduce minimum force and two-action release requirements to prevent children from inadvertantly disengaging ISOFIX child restraints.

Proposal to revise the upper belt anchorage height requirements of UN R14 in order to permit adjustable restraint systems that have recently appeared on the European market and have proven to satisfactorily restrain children and adults in buses and motor-coaches.

Revision of Table 1 of the new draft regulation on child restraint systems to replace the bench foam of UN R44 with the foam of the New Programme for the Assessment of Child restraint Systems (NPACS) used during the regulation’s evaluation phase and adopted by the informal group.

Presently, rearward-facing child restraint systems cannot be type approved under the ISOFIX Universal category of UN R16. Spain sees no technical reasons to forbid type approval of rearward facing ISOFIX as universal CRS and so proposes to add such enabling provisions to the regulation.

The current CRS label describes the dangers of using a child restraint system with an active front seat passenger airbag and was designed to correspond with the in-vehicle label of UN R94. Since the latter has been changed into a style without text, this proposal similarly revises the CRS version.

Progress report for presentation to the December 2011 session of the Working Party on Passive Safety.

Recommended changes to the final progress report on the hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle safety global technical regulation proposal.

Czech Republic defense of its approval of the BEDI inflatable car seat system in response to the CLEPA assertion that such seats fail to meet UN R44 requirements.

Revised submission from the Netherlands in order to include vehicles equipped with automatically activated door locking systems in the test procedure for Regulation No. 95.