Text of the proposed new regulation on pole side impact prepared by Australia on behalf of the GRSP expert group on Pole Side Impact (PSI). Text in brackets remains to be added and/or developed further by the PSI expert group under GRSP guidance.

Draft text for a global technical regulation on pole side-impact protection, including markup of revisions from the earlier text.

Proposal to correct and refine the draft global technical regulation on pole side-impact protection (document GRSP/2013/7) by the chair of the PSI informal working group.

Proposed changes to the draft global technical regulation on pole side-impact protection.

Proposal to include a paragraph presenting French cost-benefit data for improved side impact protection in light vehicles. France does not believe PSI is beneficial to commercial vehicles.

Draft GTR presented for consideration to the Working Party on Passive Safety.

New pole side impact GTR presented as a prelude to its formal presentation for an adoption vote at the November 2013 WP.29 session.

Changes proposed by the WP.29 secretariat pursuant to discussions in GRSP to enable the adoption of the GTR in November while finalization of the test dummy specification to be added to Mutual Resolution No. 1 and resolution of the use of ISO standards remain pending.

Changes proposed by the WP.29 secretariat pursuant to discussions in GRSP to enable the adoption of the PSI GTR in November while finalization of the test dummy specification to be added to Mutual Resolution No. 1 and resolution of the use of ISO standards remain pending.

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.

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.

“Assessment of the need for, and the likely benefits of, enhanced side impact protection in the form of a Pole Side Impact Global Technical Regulation”: final report from the Monash University Accident Research Centre (MUARC).

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.