This European Standard contains provisions for the measurement of performance of products for the road restraint systems, under impact and impact severity levels, and includes:
- Test site data;
- Definitions for road restraint systems;
- Vehicle specification (including loading requirements) for vehicles used in the impact tests;
- Instrumentation for the vehicles;
- Calculation procedures and methods of recording crash impact data including impact severity levels;
- VCDI.

The modifications included in this standard are not a change of test criteria, in the sense of EN 1317-5:2007+A1:2008, ZA.3.