Thanks to the claims of the Impact Project that a new regulation on underride guards was needed, together with the technical results we were able to present, the Brazilian Association of Technical Standards (ABNT) formed a committee, on which Eng. Luís Otto Faber Schmutzler participated, with the scope of elaborating a Brazilian standard on the matter. At the same time, DENATRAN (the Brazilian National Department of Traffic) committed itself to issuing a new regulation as soon as the ABNT standard had been approved, in order to replace the current CONTRAN Regulation No. 805/95, which is a copy of E.C.E. Regulation R58. After working for about one year, the committee released proposal ABNT 39:002.01-002:1999 – “Rear guard for trucks and trailers with a gross vehicle weight of over 4.6 t – Requirements and test procedures." Based on this proposal, the Brazilian National Department of Traffic elaborated the new  regulation on rear underride guards. The Regulation Nr. 152, of October 29th, 2003, will become effective on July 1st, 2004, and will apply only to new trucks, trailers and semi-trailers.

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