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up to:
05 series of amendments – Date of entry into force: 9 June 2021
Supplement 1 to the 05 series of amendments – Date of entry into force: 7 January 2022
Supplement 2 to the 05 series of amendments – Date of entry into force: 22 June 2022
Supplement 3 to the 05 series of amendments – Date of entry into force: 5 January 2024
  Uniform provisions concerning the approval of vehicles with regard to the protection of the occupants in the event of a lateral collision
Regulation No. 95
 Uniform provisions concerning the approval of vehicles with regard to the protection of the occupants in the event of a lateral collision
Contents

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Regulation

    1. Scope............................................................. 10

    2. Definitions.......................................................... 10

    3. Application for approval................................................. 14

    4. Approval........................................................... 15

    5. Specifications and tests.................................................. 16

    6. Modification of the vehicle type............................................ 21

    7. Conformity of production................................................ 22

    8. Penalties for non-conformity of production..................................... 23

    9. Production definitively discontinued......................................... 23

       10. Names and addresses of Technical Services  responsible for conducting approval tests,
       and of Type Approval Authorities........................................... 23

       11. Transitional provisions.................................................. 23

Annexes

    1 Communication....................................................... 25

    2 Arrangements of the approval mark.......................................... 27

       3 Procedure for determining the "H" point and the actual torso angle for seating positions in motor vehicles               28

     Appendix 1 - Description of the three dimensional "H" point machine (3-D H machine)1....... 28

     Appendix 2 - Three‑dimensional reference system1......................... 28

     Appendix 3 - Reference data concerning seating positions1.......................... 28

    4 Collision test procedure.................................................. 29

     Appendix 1 - Determination of performance data................................. 34

     Appendix 2 - The procedure for calculating the viscous criterion for EUROSID 1........... 35

    5 Mobile deformable barrier characteristics...................................... 36

     Appendix 1 - Force-deflection curves for static tests............................... 49

     Appendix 2 - Force-deflection curves for dynamic tests............................. 51

    6 Technical description of the side impact dummy................................. 54

    7 Installation of the side impact dummy........................................ 72

    8 Partial test.......................................................... 74

       9 Test procedures for the vehicles equipped with electric power train..................... 76

1.  Scope
               This Regulation applies to vehicles of category M1 with a maximum permissible mass not exceeding 3,500 kg, vehicles of category M1 with a maximum permissible mass exceeding 3,500 kg where the "R" point of the lowest seat is not more than 700 mm from ground level when the vehicle is in the condition corresponding to the reference mass defined in paragraph 2.10. of this Regulation, and to vehicles of category N1.[2].

2.  Definitions
        For the purposes of this Regulation:

              2.1. "Approval of a vehicle" means the approval of a vehicle type with regard to the behaviour of the structure of the passenger compartment in a lateral collision.

              2.2. "Vehicle type" means a category of power-driven vehicles which do not differ in such