Proposal for a Council Decision on the position to be taken by the European Union within the Administrative Committee of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe concerning the draft Regulation on enhanced Child Restraint Systems

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 Regulation on uniform provisions concerning the approval of Enhanced Child Restraint Systems used on board of motor vehicles. The objective of this draft regulation is to establish a high level of safety for children transported in motor vehicles while seated in such systems. At EU level, Council Directive 91/671/EEC relating to the compulsory use of safety belts and child-restraint systems in vehicles in its Article 2 mandates the use of appropriate child restraint systems in motor vehicles.

The present proposal aims at defining the Union position with regard to the draft UNECE regulations on Enhanced Child Restraint Systems and consequently to provide for the Union, represented by the Commission, to vote in favour of this draft. At a later stage, measures shall be taken to enable for the draft UNECE regulation on Enhanced Child Restraint Systems to be applied within the European Union for the type-approval of such systems as well as the use of the systems by EU citizens.

EUR-Lex: COM(2012)607: Follow the progress of this document through the decision-making procedure http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2012:607:FIN

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