Proposal for a Council Decision establishing the position to be adopted on the Union’s behalf in the Administrative Committee of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe on the draft new Regulation on pole side impact and on the draft amendment to the new Regulation on pole side impact

At international level, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) develops harmonised requirements, intended to remove technical barriers to the trade in motor vehicles and systems used for such motor vehicles between the Contracting Parties to the ‘Revised 1958 Agreement’ and to ensure that such vehicles and systems offer a high level of safety and environmental protection.

The UNECE recently finalised a draft new Regulation on uniform provisions concerning the approval of vehicles with regard to their Pole Side Impact performance and draft amendment to this draft new Regulation. The objective of the draft Regulation, as well as the proposed amendment thereto, is to establish a high level of safety for the occupants of vehicles involved in a side crash with a tall rigid object such as a tree or lantern post.

The immediate introduction of the amendment to the draft new regulation will provide Contracting Parties with the option to either apply the new Regulation in the original series in a first step, or to immediately apply the amended series. The original series will incorporate an exemption with reduced test severity for very narrow cars. The amended series abolishes the exemption for Contracting Parties that have no intrinsic need to apply it in a first step.

The established provisions of Global Technical Regulation No 14 on Pole Side Impact, as adopted through the Council Decision 14675/13, are effectively transposed into the draft new UNECE Regulation and the draft amendment to the draft new UNECE Regulation.

The present proposal aims at defining the Union's position in the voting of the draft UNECE regulation on Pole Side Impact, as well as the draft amendment thereto, submitted for vote in the November 2014 WP29 meeting that will take place on 11 to 14 November 2014.

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EUR-Lex: COM(2014)680: Follow the progress of this proposal through the decision-making procedure http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2014:680:FIN

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