MS Word download: Working draft of the RESS amendments proposal reflecting the outcomes of the 5th RESS group meeting in Madrid (18-20 October 2011).

CLEPA presentation asserting that inflatable car seat systems being approved under UN R44 fail to comply with the regulation’s requirements because the lap portion of the belt intrudes into the abdomen of the dummy, leading to a submarining situation.

Proposal for amendments to UN R12, R94, and R95 to introduce provisions for excluding the REESS coupling system in cases where testing is performed under the condition that part(s) of the high voltage system are not energized.

Because the subject of protection from direct contact with live electrical parts in the regulations concerns the “occupants”, not the “power train” as currently specified, Japan proposes to exchange the terms in the appropriate paragraphs of the subject rules.

Document GRSP/2011/10 would require seats which can be tipped or folded automatically to lock in all positions, which could suggest locking in positions throughout the unfolding procedure. This submission clarifies the assumed intent of requiring seats to lock in their final positions.

Final progress report of the Informal working group on Hydrogen fuel cell vehicle GTR and the proposal to develop a global technical regulation concerning hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.

Proposal to revise the upper belt anchorage height requirements of UN R14 in order to permit adjustable restraint systems that have recently appeared on the European market and have proven to satisfactorily restrain children and adults in buses and motor-coaches.

Presently, rearward-facing child restraint systems cannot be type approved under the ISOFIX Universal category of UN R16. Spain sees no technical reasons to forbid type approval of rearward facing ISOFIX as universal CRS and so proposes to add such enabling provisions to the regulation.

Proposal to introduce minimum force and two-action release requirements to prevent children from inadvertantly disengaging ISOFIX child restraints.

The current CRS label describes the dangers of using a child restraint system with an active front seat passenger airbag and was designed to correspond with the in-vehicle label of UN R94. Since the latter has been changed into a style without text, this proposal similarly revises the CRS version.

Revision of Table 1 of the new draft regulation on child restraint systems to replace the bench foam of UN R44 with the foam of the New Programme for the Assessment of Child restraint Systems (NPACS) used during the regulation’s evaluation phase and adopted by the informal group.

Progress report for presentation to the December 2011 session of the Working Party on Passive Safety.

Czech Republic defense of its approval of the BEDI inflatable car seat system in response to the CLEPA assertion that such seats fail to meet UN R44 requirements.

Recommended changes to the final progress report on the hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle safety global technical regulation proposal.

Review of bus and motor-coach seat-belt systems with adjustable anchorages for use by adults or children. Certain systems do not conform with UN R14 and R16; however, Germany argues that the belts can have benefits under certain conditions and suggests revising R14 provisions.

Presentation detailing non-compliance issues identified in child seat belt guides and inflatable child seat systems.

Revised submission from the Netherlands in order to include vehicles equipped with automatically activated door locking systems in the test procedure for Regulation No. 95.

Draft of the hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles GTR updated with proposals for amendments (to the earlier version GRSP/2011/33) as agreed by GRSP at its December 2011 session.

Presentation for the December 2011 session of the Working Party on Passive Safety to report on the effort to develop regulatory provisions for rechargeable energy storage systems (REESS), such as Li-Ion batteries of electric vehicles.

Presentation on the second phase crash tests of the pilot program seeking to establish a Latin American new car assessment program.

Draft of the new child restraint systems regulation following the 49th session of the Working Party on Passive Safety (GRSP) and of the 29th meeting of the informal group on child restraints systems (CRS) held in December 2011.