The draft provisional agenda for the December 2026 session includes adoption of the agenda; UN Global Technical Regulations No. 1, No. 13, and No. 20; children left in vehicles including a new UN Regulation and request for authorization to develop a new UN Global Technical Regulation; UN Regulations No. 11, No. 17, No. 21, No. 22, No. 95, No. 100, No. 127, No. 129, No. 134, and No. 170; collective amendments to UN Regulations that impact automated vehicles; Mutual Resolution No. 1; equitable occupant protection; and other business items including exchange of information on passive safety, UN Regulation No. 0, vehicle automation, software updates, airbags and pyrotechnic systems, child restraint systems, bus frontal protection, and election of officers.

Proposal to amend para. 9.(a) to clarify expansion of the protection scope of electrical and battery safety, including thermal propagation in cases of V2X, parking, and charging. The modification addresses new vehicle functionalities like V2X, defined in UN GTR No. 22, where traction batteries cover external power and energy demand. Additional requirements must be added, including isolation resistance requirements for coupling systems for charging the REESS, as defined in para. 5.1.1.2.4.4. of UN GTR No. 20.

Proposal to insert a new para. 5.1. requiring that features for design or aerodynamics in the head impact zone shall not impose an additional cause of danger to pedestrians and other vulnerable road users and shall not exhibit openings or contain materials that may increase the risk or seriousness of injury, and renumber paragraphs 5.1. to 5.2. as paragraphs 5.2. to 5.3. This aims to maintain pedestrian safety as requirements become mandatory for small-series vehicles according to Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/2236 from 7 January 2026, addressing hazards from openings in the head impact zone that may trap impacted heads or permit head intrusion and from bonnet materials like plastics that may deform or fracture, creating injury risks not currently addressed by UN R127’s component tests.

Australia proposes examining the case to bring UN R95 in line with Euro NCAP by establishing an ad-hoc group of interested experts to consider a more representative test barrier and dummy, allow flexibility to update Euro NCAP protocols, further consider alternative or additional equitable dummy choice and addition of a near-side rear occupant to UN R95, and examine more advanced barriers with improved dummy bio-fidelity and alternative injury assessment.

Proposal to amend para. 2.1. to define “appropriate adaptor” as specified by the CHSS manufacturer and clarify container valve and end plug components, amend paras. 5.1.1., 5.1.2., 5.2., 9.2.1., 9.2.3.2. and Annex 3 para. 2.1. to specify that connections between supply lines for additional TPRDs and appropriate adaptors meet test requirements and are within scope, delete “hydraulic” in para. 9.2.1. to permit gas as test option, and amend Annex 3 para. 5.1. to remove reference to appropriate adaptors for fire testing.