NOTIFICATION
Addendum
The following communication, dated 23 August
2024, is being circulated at the request of the delegation of the United
States of America.
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Title: Federal
Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Occupant Crash Protection
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Notified measure published - date: 22 August 2024
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Notified measure enters into force - date: 21 October 2024; Effective
date: 21 October 2024. Petition for reconsideration: If you wish to petition
for reconsideration of this rule, your petition must be received by 7 October
2024. Compliance date: This final rule adopts a phase-in of the revised
appendix. The phase-in begins on 1 September 2025, when forty percent of a
manufacturer's applicable light vehicles must comply with the revised
appendix. By 1 September 2026, all applicable light vehicles must comply with
the revised appendix. We are also allowing optional early compliance.
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Text of final measure available from[1]:
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2024/TBT/USA/final_measure/24_05564_00_e.pdf
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Description: This final rule amends Federal Motor Vehicle Safety
Standard (FMVSS) No. 208, "Occupant crash protection," updating the child
restraint systems (CRSs) listed in the standard. NHTSA uses the CRSs to test
the performance of advanced air bag suppression and low risk deployment systems
in either suppressing or deploying the air bag in a low-risk manner in the
presence of a CRS. The amendments will ensure that the CRSs used by NHTSA to
test advanced air bags are representative of the current CRS market and will
make it easier for vehicle manufacturers and test laboratories to acquire CRSs
for testing purposes.
Effective date: 21 October 2024.
Petition for reconsideration: If you wish to petition for
reconsideration of this rule, your petition must be received by 7 October 2024.
Compliance date: This final rule adopts a phase-in of the
revised appendix. The phase-in begins on 1 September 2025, when forty percent
of a manufacturer's applicable light vehicles must comply with the revised
appendix. By 1 September 2026, all applicable light vehicles must comply with
the revised appendix. We are also allowing optional early compliance.
89 Federal Register (FR) 67869, Title 49 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)
Parts 571 and 585:
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2024-08-22/html/2024-18114.htm
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2024-08-22/pdf/2024-18114.pdf
This final rule is identified by Docket Number
NHTSA-2024-0038 and the notice of proposed rulemaking notified as G/TBT/N/USA/1666 is identified by Docket Number
NHTSA-2020-0094. The Docket Folders are available on Regulations.gov at https://www.regulations.gov/document/NHTSA-2024-0038-0001 and https://www.regulations.gov/document/NHTSA-2020-0094-0001 and provide access to primary
documents as well as comments received. Documents are also accessible from Regulations.gov by searching the Docket Number. WTO
Members and their stakeholders wishing to petition for reconsideration of this
rule, please submit your petition to the USA TBT Enquiry Point by 4pm Eastern Time on 7 October 2024.
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[1] This information can be provided by including a website address, a
pdf attachment, or other information on where the text of the final/modified
measure and/or interpretive guidance can be obtained.