UNITED

NATIONS

Distr.

Economic and Social	GENERAL

Council	TRANS/WP.29/665
16 April 1999

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FRENCH

ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR EUROPE

INLAND TRANSPORT COMMITTEE

Working Party on the Construction of Vehicles

DRAFT SUPPLEMENT 2 TO THE 07 SERIES OF

AMENDMENTS TO REGULATION No. 17

(Strength of seats)

Note:	The text reproduced below was adopted by the Administrative Committee (AC.1) of the amended 1958 Agreement at its eleventh session, following the recommendation by the Working Party at its one-hundred-and- seventeenth session. It is based on document TRANS/WP.29/1999/16, not amended (TRANS/WP.29/663, para. 114).

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The footnote at the beginning of the Regulation, should be deleted

(reading: "Note: No provisions in this Regulation shall be construed as a mandatory requirement to equip seats with head restraints.")

Paragraph 4.1., amend to read:

"4.1.	If the vehicle submitted for approval pursuant to this Regulation meets the relevant requirements (seats fitted with head restraints or capable of being fitted with head restraints), approval of the vehicle type shall be granted."

Paragraph 4.4.1., footnote 3/, amend to read:

"3/	1 for Germany, ..., 24 for Ireland, ..., 30 (vacant), 31 for Bosnia and Herzegovina, 32 for Latvia, 33-36 (vacant), 37 for Turkey,

38-39 (vacant), 40 for The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, 41 (vacant), 42 for the European Community (Approvals are granted by its Member States using their respective ECE symbol) and 43 for Japan. Subsequent numbers .... to the Agreement concerning the Adoption of Uniform Technical Prescriptions for Wheeled Vehicles, Equipment and Parts which can be Fitted and/or be Used on Wheeled Vehicles and the Conditions for Reciprocal Recognition of Approvals Granted on the basis of these Prescriptions and the numbers ... to the Agreement."

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