Consumers International statement welcoming the adoption of the new UN Regulation on child restraint systems.

ANEC/Consumers International (CI) views in response to the CLEPA proposal to allow the use of R44 approved belted infant carriers in combination with an i-size base.

Summary of assessments for the installation of the Römer Kidfix child restraint system as part of the Euro NCAP Child Occupant Rating for passenger cars.

Question and answer brochure on the i-size child restraint systems regulation.

Outlook .msg format email from ANEC via the Dutch Consumentenbond. The main issue deals with the implicit exclusion of lateral facing ECRS, although these are mentioned as possibility to transport children up to 15 months. The draft paragraph 6.1.2.3 states that children up to 15 months can be transported in lateral and rearward facing seats, but this is contradicted under a) where is written that ECRS for children up to 15 months shall be rearward facing.

ANEC considers it undesirable that CRS manufacturers still can develop new products according to R44 for an undefined period. Therefore ANEC propose that no new R44 approvals be granted to Isofix integral CRS as of [9 July 2016], and that transitional provisions be amended accordingly.

Proposal to strip ISOFIX CRS provisions from UN R44 and to cease all new type approvals for CRS under UN R44 from November 2016 in deference to UN R129 on Enhanced CRS.

Presentation on child restraint systems that can be integral or non-integral and related labeling/installation issues.

Input concerning use and misuse of traditional CRS, including manufacturer and consumer adaptations and responses that should be avoided through the development of UN R129.

Consumers International proposes that no new UN Regulation No. 44 approvals be granted to non-integral group 2 or group 2/3 CRS as of [1 September 2018].

Proposal to cease new approvals of non-integral group 2 and group 2/3 child restraint systems under UN Regulation No. 44 as of [1 September 2018].

Proposal to cease new approvals of non-integral group 2 and group 2/3 child restraint systems under UN Regulation No. 44 as of [1 September 2019]. This proposal supersedes the previous document GRSP/2017/20.

December 2015 notes prepared by Global NCAP in safety awareness following “Safer Cars in India” program.

Proposal to require rigid barrier frontal crash testing for commercial use quadricycles (i.e., four-wheeled vehicles with unladen mass not more than 400 kg (550 kg for goods-carrying vehicles), not including the mass of batteries in the case of electric vehicles and whose maximum continuous rated power does not exceed 15 kW).

Proposal to prohibit the granting of new approvals under UN R44 from [1 September 2020] and to amend the transitional provisions accordingly.

Proposal to introduce chest vertical acceleration (Az) criteria until such time as upper neck tension Force (Fz) and upper neck flexion moment (My) criteria can be established.

Proposal to introduce limit values for the chest vertical acceleration (Az) of Q dummies during dynamic testing of Enhanced Child Restraint Systems (ECRS) until such time as upper neck tension Force (Fz) and upper neck flexion moment (My) criteria can be established.

Proposal to prohibit new type approvals under UN R44 from [1 September 2020] via the introduction of new transitional provisions. The purpose is to ensure that further child restraint system approvals are made under the UN R129.

Proposal to cease new approvals of booster-cushion CRS under UN R44 from 1 September 2021 and to amend the transitional provisions accordingly.

ANEC calls for support for proposal to improve UN Regulation No. 44 on Child Restraint Systems to ensure the highest protection practicable for children travelling by car.

Call for support for the draft Supplement 18 to UN R44 intended to clarify that certain belt-guides and straps can be eligible for type-approval only as a part of a Child Restraint System and not as a free-standing Child Restraint System.

Proposal to restrict use of the colour green exclusively to the marking belt route indicators.

Proposal to restrict use of the colour green exclusively to the marking belt route indicators.

Draft proposal to require approval to UN R170 of Enhanced Child Restraint Systems approved according to UN R129 and eligible for installation in buses with a 2-point seat belt.