#TRAR2615872AFrance Tightens Monitoring Rules for Vehicles with Takata Airbags
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This order narrows and clarifies parts of France’s temporary restrictions on vehicles fitted with Takata airbags, especially older “NADI” airbags produced before September 1999. It also adds new monitoring duties for manufacturers and their representatives when vehicles with Takata NADI airbags are not covered by a stop-drive order. Manufacturers must submit an airbag surveillance plan to the vehicle safety authority by 31 August 2026. The plan must include leak checks, tomography scans, pressure tests, and propellant analysis on statistically representative samples of replaced airbags. Delays can trigger a daily penalty of €100,000, and the first six-month report is due by 28 February 2027.
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Key Changes
- Limits certain Takata NADI airbag references to units produced before September 1999
- Requires manufacturers to submit a surveillance plan for replaced Takata airbags by 31 August 2026
- Introduces a €100,000 daily penalty for delays and requires six-month monitoring reports
Obligations
What this law requires
For each vehicle equipped with Takata driver or passenger “NADI” airbags produced before September 1999 that is not subject to a stop-drive measure, manufacturers or their authorised representatives must implement the airbag surveillance measures specified in Article 5 IV.
Manufacturers or their authorised representatives must submit an airbag surveillance plan for replaced airbags to the SSMVM for validation.
The surveillance plan must include leak checks on the airbag inflator, tomographic analyses, closed-vessel pressure testing for part of the inflators, and propellant characterization for other inflator samples covering density, moisture content, and integrated burn rate during closed-vessel testing.
The surveillance plan must use a statistically representative number of replaced airbag samples.
Upon request from the SSMVM, manufacturers or their authorised representatives must supply replaced airbags for independent testing, with this supply taking priority over samples intended for the manufacturer or representative and deducted from the sampling volume.