. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/USA/81 
22 September 2004 
 (04-3988) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:  English 
   
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6. 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   UNITED STATES
 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):         
2. Agency responsible:   Department of Transportation/ National Highway Traffic Safety 
Administration (NHTSA) (85) 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, e-mail and web-site 
addresses, if available) of  agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be  indicated if different from above:         
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [ X], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [   ], 5.7.1 [   ], other:         
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading. 
ICS numbers may be provided in  addition, where applicable):   Anthropomorphic Test 
Device  (HS  8703) (ICS 43.020). 
5. Title, number of pages and langua ge(s) of the notified document:   Anthropomorphic 
Test Devices; ES-2re Side Impact Crash Test Dummy (ES-2 With Rib Extensions); 
50th Percentile Adult Male (21 Pages, in English). 
6. Description of content:   In May 2004, NHTSA published a notice of proposed rulemaking 
that proposed to upgrade Federal Motor Vehi cle Safety Standard No. 214, ``Side Impact 
Protection,'' by requiring that all passenger vehicles with a gross vehicle weight rating of 4,536 kilograms (10,000 pounds) or less protect front seat occupants against head, thoracic, abdominal and pelvic injuries in a vehicle-to-pole test simulating a vehicle's crashing sideways into narrow fixed objects like telephone poles and trees. That NPRM proposed 
that compliance with the pole test would be de termined in two test c onfigurations, one using 
a new, second-generation test dummy representing mid-size adult males and the other using a new test dummy representing small adult females. The NPRM also proposed using the new dummies in the standard's existing vehi cle-to-vehicle test that uses a moving 
deformable barrier to simulate a moving vehicl e being struck in the side by another moving 
vehicle. 
Today's NPRM proposes specifications and qualification requirements for the new mid-size 
adult male crash test dummy. The new 50th per centile adult male side impact test dummy 
has enhanced injury assessment  capabilities compared to devices existing today, which 
allows for a fuller assessment of the types and magnitudes of the injuries occurring in side 
impacts and of the efficacy of countermeasures in improving occupant protection. G/TBT/N/USA/81 
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7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Protection of Human Life and Health.  
8. Relevant documents:   69 Federal Register (FR) 55550 15 September 2004;  Title 49 Code 
of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 572.  Will a ppear in the Federal Register when adopted. 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:   }To be determined 
10. Final date for comments:   15 November 2004 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body:        
Internet URLs: 
http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/24 22/06jun20041800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2004/04-
20715.htm 
http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/24 22/06jun20041800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2004/pdf/
04-20715.pdf