Working Party on Passive Safety
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5-9 May 2025  · Geneva
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GRSP/77 Passive Safety: Report of the 77th (May 2025) session
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8. UN Regulation No. 16 (Safety-belts)

11. The expert from Finland withdrew ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSP/2023/29.

12. The expert from the Kingdom of the Netherlands introduced informal document GRSP-77-33-Rev.1, which superseded ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSP/2025/3. He explained that the final drafting of the amendment kept dry quartz as the requirement in the test description and then offered talcum as an alternative way of fulfilling this requirement. He also clarified that the relative softness of talcum did not lower the stringency of the test, as this test was measuring dust intrusion, not durability and that it should be up to type approval authorities, to decide which substance to use in the test. The expert from CLEPA supported the proposal and announced that they were carrying out tests to assess the difference between the two substances and would bring the results to the next GRSP session.

13. Taking into account the previous discussion and adoption in principle of informal documents GRSP-77-03, GRSP-77-04 and GRSP-77-05 under agenda item 24 (b) (see paragraph 48), GRSP adopted these three informal documents together with informal document GRSP-77-33-Rev.1 (as reproduced in annex III to the session report) and requested the secretariat to submit them as proposals for supplement 6 to the 08 series of amendments, supplement 2 to the 09 series of amendments and supplement 2 to the 10 series of amendments to UN Regulation No. 16 to the November 2025 sessions of WP.29 and AC.1.

14. The expert from Finland presented informal document GRSP-77-15 to discuss cheating of seat-belt assurance systems. The expert from the Republic of Korea recalled previous experience in the United States of America with seat-belt interlocks, which had now been replaced by seat-belt reminders. After some further discussion, GRSP agreed to keep the item in the agenda for the next session.