In response to a GRSP request (ECE/TRANS/WP29/GRSP/53, para. 45) concerning the configuration of Child Restraint Systems (CRS) combining a base attached to the vehicle by ISOFIX anchorages with a shell installed on the base. This shell could also be used without the base and secured by an adult safety belt. This proposal aims at allowing the type approval of this configuration according to UN Regulation No. 129 in its first phase.

Proposal to specify a head restraint height between 720 mm and 830 mm pursuant to the work on phase 2 of GTR No. 7 which includes a new method for measuring the effective height of head restraints.

Proposal to clarify the scope of UN Regulation No. 29 and the tests to be performed on the various types of category N vehicles.

Update on the ISO task force established to improve compatibility between child seat systems and vehicles in three ways:

1. Belt compatibility (revision of belt length and load bearing point)
2. Isofix Compatibility
   • - Support Leg
   • - Top Tether

3. Isofix booster compatibility

Text prepared by the informal expert group on the Phase 2 development of the GTR on pedestrian safety to introduce the new FlexPLI lower legform test tool into the test procedures.

Draft text that would adapt the GTR on hydrogen vehicle safety to the type-approval system via a new UN Regulation.

Proposal based on document GRSP/2012/25 (proposal drafted by the secretariat to consolidate the transitional provisions of UN R16 as a basis for a discussion on simplifying and correcting the text) to consolidate the transitional provisions of UN R16.

Proposal to improve the reproducibility of the luggage impact test described in annex 9 of UN Regulation No. 17.

Proposal for the text of the UN Regulation transposing the Global Technical Regulation on hydrogen and fuel-cell vehicles into the 1958 Agreement. This version highlights changes from the GTR text.

Background presentation explaining issues encountered in transposing the GTR on HFCV into a UN (type-approval) Regulation.

German-language report: “Volkswirtschaftliche Kosten durch Straßenverkehrsunfälle in Deutschland”

Corrections to the proposal as approved by the GRSP to amend the regulation pursuant to the recommendations resulting from a review of the text by the informal working group on child restraint systems.

“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).

IMMA recommendations concerning the application of UN R100 to motorcycles

European Commission draft regulatory language for its Regulation on Vehicle Construction Requirements (RVCR) and UN R100 for L-category electric vehicles.

“COMMISSION DELEGATED REGULATION (EU) No …/.. of XXX supplementing Regulation (EU) No 168/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council and amending Part A of its Annex V with regard to the environmental and propulsion performance requirements for two- or three-wheel vehicles and quadricycles”

Links to and list of documents from the Informal Working Group Meeting on lithium battery testing requirements held in Washington during October 2–4, 2013.

Japan’s opinion for the R129 Phase 2 and
correction of an editorial error in the Draft of Phase 2

Technical drawing of child restraint system retractor.