27 Feb 2014
The European Commission is implementing the Directive 2014/37/EU (amending Council Directive 91/671/EEC) relating to the compulsory use of safety belts and child restraint system in vehicles.
The standardised requirements of Regulation 129 constitute alternative enhanced requirements in relation to those established under Regulation 44 on uniform provisions concerning the approval of restraining devices for child occupants of power-driven vehicles (‘Child restraint systems’), and reflect technical progress in several aspects of child restraint systems such as tests for side impacts, the rear facing position of children up to 15 months, compatibility with different vehicles, test dummies and test benches and adaptability to various child sizes.