Manufacture and approval  > Approval Process

The child restraint systems are certified by notified bodies through a series of static and dynamic tests in accordance with UN Regulation R44/04. Two factors are evaluated using this protocol:

 The effectiveness of child protection on impact.

 Product stability through statistical studies on the results of various sensors fitted to crash test dummies.

These dynamic tests are performed with the different dummies corresponding to the maximum and minimum masses of the group being approved.

The static tests are focused on the durability of the product: actuation cycles, cold conditioning, light-exposure resistance, salty atmosphere corrosion, static resistance, chemical composition of various components (toxicity tests), fire resistance, and self-extinguishability of fabric and foams, etc.

Once approval has been obtained, the manufacturer is obliged to undergo a production test whereby they must analyse one seat in every 5000 units produced and send a unit to the approval laboratory to carry out further dynamic and static tests.