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reported on. The 2D drawing (PDF form), 3D drawing (STEP form) and user's manual were scheduled to be drafted jointly by the two manufacturers. 177. By the fourth IWG meeting, Humanetics (a company formed by the merger of Denton and FTSS), had had the drawings posted on the GRSP website. They reported that 3D data was ready, but that the Procedures for Assembly, Disassembly, and Inspection (PADI) was under revision. They announced the preparation of the list, to be included in PADI, for checking the most recent dummy. The Chair of IWG pointed out that a method to clarify the suitability of the build level of BioRID II was needed. A suggestion from the expert of Japan to provide PADI along with drawings in a same website was agreed on. 178. At the 153rd session of WP.29, the Chair of IWG introduced a proposal for a protocol to manage drawings, manuals and specifications under WP.29 responsibilities. The basic principle was agreed on. 179. At the eighth IWG meeting, the Chair reported the status of the register of technical specifications. It was noted that WP.29 had decided, as a first step, that data had to be incorporated into the Consolidated Resolution on the Construction of Vehicles (R.E.3). The amendment to R.E.3 would also be used for other ATDs. 180. At the 158th session of WP.29, the World Forum and AC.3 adopted the Mutual Resolution No. 1 (M.R.1) of the 1958 and the 1998 Agreements which concerns the description and performance of test tools and devices. 181. At the fourteenth IWG meeting, PDB reported on that the dummy drawing check was almost ready for incorporation into addendum 1. (M.R.1) 178th 182. At the session of WP.29, the representative from the United Kingdom, explained that a proposal to amend M.R.1 would incorporate drawings and specifications of the Biofidelic Rear Impact Dummy. However, he indicated that the major challenge was the legal issue of copyright infringement concerning the above- mentioned specifications and consequent limitation of their public usage. He concluded by announcing that work would continue in close cooperation with the secretariat and with the dummy manufacturer to devise a disclaimer text, that would be removed from the drawings once the amendment was adopted by WP.29 and AC.3. 183. At the eighteenth TEG meeting in August 2019, Humanetics stated that ECE was allowed to use the drawings and the PADI of the BioRID for rulemaking purposes within the framework of M.R.1.

(iv) Certification procedures

184. At the "meeting of interested experts", the history of discussions on the new certification test at GBUM and the summary of those discussions were presented. The new certification test procedure was completed in Japan, the Republic of Korea, the United States of America and the European Union. The resulting sled waveform had become flatter, showing good reproducibility. At the second IWG meeting, it was proposed to change the calibration waveform to match that of the Euro NCAP medium pulse and dummy input. However, the Chair commented that since the ToR of the informal group states that our objective is to specify the uniform method for evaluating low-speed impacts, and that the low speed is defined as V18 km/h or below, we should aim for a sled waveform around 16–18 km/h and discuss the calibration waveform based on the current proposal (GBUM2009). 185. At the third meeting, the BioRID TEG reported on the new certification test method with the head restraint. While developing in the right direction, there were concerns that the head-to-head restraint contact time is too short (10–20 ms). Humanetics would draft a detailed method of the presence of head restraint in the new sled. It will be evaluated by Japan, Ford, General Motors (GM) and PDB. 186. At the fifth and sixth informal meetings, the calibration method without head restraints was agreed on. It was decided for that calibration with head restraints, study would be based on the weight probe (119 kg) with a better correlation with input pulses of evaluation tests.