Text as approved by the Working Party on Passive Safety (GRSP) at its fifty-third session to introduce a new UN Global Technical Regulation (UN GTR) on pole side impact protection.

The intention of this report is to supplement procedural information on the development of the GTR included in the Part I (Statement of technical rationale and justification) of the GTR and to provide further details on the informal working group.

Proposal of two amendments needed to enable the United States to vote in favor of the draft GTR. First, the document allows contracting parties the option of an alternate procedure for adjusting the seat and positioning the dummy based on that used by the United States during its WorldSID research. Second, the document allows contracting parties to modify the injury criteria in the GTR based on cost/benefit analysis for their own country, but using the same injury risk curves used to develop the injury criteria in the GTR.