UNITED
NATIONS
CONFERENCE ON ROAD TRAFFIC
Vienna, 7 October - 8 November 1968
Final
Act
Convention on Road Traffic
Convention on Road Signs and Signals
Conference
Des Nations Unies
Sur La Circulation Routiere
Vienne, 7
Octobre - 8 Nombre 1968
Acte Final
Convention
su la circulation routiere
Convention su la signalisation routiere
FINAL
ACT AND RELATED DOCUMENTS
Geneva, 1969
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
FINAL ACT AND RELATED DOCUMENTS
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Final Act of the United Nations
Conference on Road Traffic
II
Convention on Road Traffic
Chapter 1. General Provisions
Article 1 -
Definitions
Article 2 -
Annexes to the Convention
Article 3 -
Obligations of the Contracting Parties
Article 4 -
Signs and Signals
Chapter II. Rules of the
Road
Article 5
- Status of Signs and Signals
Article 6 -
Instructions given by authorized Officials
Article 7 -
General Rules
Article 8 -
Drivers
Article 9 -
Flocks and Herds
Article 10 - Position on
the Carriageway
Article 11 - Overtaking and
Movement of Traffic in Lines
Article 12 - Passing of
Oncoming Traffic
Article 13 - Speed and
Distance Between Vehicles
Article 14 - General
Requirements Governing Maneuvers
Article 15 - Special
Regulations relating to Regular Public-Transport Service Vehicles
Article 16 - Change of
Direction
Article 17 - Slowing down
Article 18 - Intersections
and Obligations to give Way
Article 19 -
Level-crossings
Article 20 - Rules
applicable to Pedestrians
Article 21 - Behaviour of
Drivers towards Pedestrians
Article 22 - Islands on the
Carriageway
Article 23 - Standing and
Parking
Article 24 - Opening of
Doors
Article 25 - Motorways and
Similar Roads
Article 26 - Special rules
applicable to Procession and Handicapped Persons
Article 27 - Special Rules
applicable to Cyclists, Mopped Drivers and Motor Cyclists .
Article 28 - Audible and
Luminous Warnings
Article 29 - Rail-bome
Vehicles
Article 30 - Loading of
Vehicles
Article 31 - Behaviors in
Case of Accident
Article 32 - Lighting:
General Requirements
Article 33 - Lighting:
Rules ofor the Use of the Lights specified in Annex 5
Article 34 - Exemptions
Chapter III. Condition
for the Admission of Motor Vehicles and Trailers to International Traffic
Article 35 - Registration
Article 36 - Registration Number
Article 37 - Distinguishing Sign
of the
State of Registration
Article 38 - Identification
Marks
Article 39 - Technical
Requirements
Article 40 - Transitional
Provision
Chapter IV. Drivers of Motor
Vehicles
Article 41 - Validity of Driving Licensess
Article 42 - Suspension of the
Validity of Driving Licenses
Article 43 - Transitional
Provisions
Chapter V. Conditions for
the Admission of Cycles and Mopeds to International Traffic
Article 44
Chapter VI. Final
Provisions
Article 45
Article 46
Article 47
Article 48
Article 49
Article 50
Article 51
Article 52
Article 53
Article 54
Article 55
Article 56
Annex I.
Exceptions to the Obligation to admit
Motor Vehicles and Trailers in International Traffic
Annex 2.
Registration Number of Motor Vehicles
and Trailers in International Traffic
The Governments of the
following states were represented at the conference by the delegation:
Afghanistan
Algeria
Argentina
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Brazil
Bulgaria
Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic
Canada
Central African Republic
Chile
China
Costa Rica
Cyprus
Czechoslovakia
Denmark
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Federal Republic of Germany
Finland
France
Gabon
Ghana
Greece
Holy See
Hungary
India
Indonesia
Iran
Israel
Italy
Japan
Kenya
Kuwait
Liberia
Libya
Luxembourg
Malaysia
Mali
Mexico
Monaco
Netherlands
Nigeria
Norway
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Republic of Korea
Romania
San Marino
Saudi Arabia
Spain
Sudan
Sweden
Switzerland
Thailand
Turkey
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
United Arab Republic
United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland
United States of America
Venezuela
Yugoslavia
The Governments of the
following States had observers at the Conference:
Bolivia
Colombia
Cuba
Guatemala
Nicaragua
The International Labour
Organization, the World Health Organization and the International Atomic
Energy Agency were represented at the Conference in a consultative
capacity.
The following organizations
were represented at the Conference by observers:
A - Inter-govemmental
organizations
Commission of the European Communities
Council of Europe
European Conference of Ministers of
Transport
International Institute for the
Unification of Private Law
League of Arab States
Organization for the Collaboration of
Railways
Nordic Council
B - Non-governmental
organizations
European Insurance Committee
International Association for the
Prevention of Road Accidents
International Chamber of Commerce
International Commission on
Illumination
International confederation of Free
Trade Unions
International Criminal Police
Organization
International Federation of Christian
Trade Unions
International Federation of Senior
Police Officers
International Organization for
Standardization
International Permanent Bureau of Motor
Cycle Manufacturers
International Permanent Bureau of Motor
Manufacturers
International Road Federation
International Road Transport Union
International Union of Official Travel
Organizations
International Union of Public Transport
International Union of Railways
League of Red Cross Societies
World Federation of Trade Unions
World Touring and Automobile
Organization
3. The conference had before it
and used as a basis for discussion a draft Convention on Road Traffic and
a draft Convention on Road Signs and Signals prepared by the
Secretary-General.
4. On the basis of its
deliberations, as recorded in the summary records of its plenary meetings
and in the summary records of the decisions of its main committees, the
Conference prepared and opened for signature a Convention on Road Traffic
and a Convention on Road Signs and Signals.
5. In addition, the Conference
adopted by acclimation the following resolution entitled
"A tribute to the
Government and People of the Republic of Austria"
"The United
Nations Conference on Road Traffic, at the end of
its work in Vienna on 7 November 1968, wishes to express its profound
gratitude to the people and Government of Austria and to the City of
Vienna for the kind and generous hospitality granted to all delegates at
the Conference."
In witness whereof the
undersigned representatives have signed this Final Act.
Done at Vienna this
eighth day of November one thousand nine hundred and sixty-eight in a
single copy in the Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish
languages, each text authentic. The original will be deposited with the
Secretary-General of the United
Nations, who will send certified copies to each of
the Governments invited to send representatives to the Conference.
Afghanistan
...................................... .......................
Saadullah Yosufi
Algeria
Argentina..................................................................
Carlos Ortiz de Rozas
Australia....................................................................
John Pennezel
Austria........................................................................
Kurt Waldheim, Otto Mitterer
Belgium......................................................................
Georges Puttevils
Brazil...........................................................................
Sylvio Carlos Diniz, Borges
Bulgaria........................................................................Demir
Bortschev
Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic..................
Andrei Vasilevich Zubovich
Canada..........................................................................
Gilles Sicotte
Central African Republic
Chile
.............................................................................
Miguel Serrano
China.............................................................................
Pao-nan Cheng
Costa Rica .......................................
............................Franz Jos. Haslinger
Cyprus
..........................................................................
Dnos Nicolaou Aphamis
Czechoslovakia ...................................
.........................Josef Dykast
Denmark ........................................
...............................Kristian Frosig
Dominican
Republic......................................................Theodor
Schmidt
Ecuador .........................................
................................Arseno Larco Diaz
Federal Republic of Germany.........................
.............Otto Linder
Finland..........................................
.................................Ensio Helaniemi
France
............................................................................Jean
Gabarra
Gabon
Ghana...........................................
.................................Jonathan W. Decker
Greece
.........................................................................
Odysseus N. Papadakis
Ole See
........................................................................
Gerolamo Prigione
Hungary.........................................................................
Laszlo Foldvari
India
Indonesia........................................................................Junus
Pohan
Iran ............................................
....................................Asian Afshar
Israel
.............................................................................
Ezra Kamma
Italy............................................
....................................Lionello Cozzi
Japan ...........................................
..................................Kinya Niseki
Kenya..............................................................................Shashinant
Kantihal
Kuwait............................................................................
Mohammad Saad Khadr
Liberia..........................................
..................................Tilmon Gardinir
Libya
.............................................................................
Abdullah Gihril Salah
Luxembourg......................................
............................Rene Logelin
Malaysia.........................................................................
Abdul Fatah Bin Zakaria
Mali................................................................................
Mahamar Maiga
Mexico..........................................
.................................G. Morales Garza
Monaco
Netherlands
.................................................................. Johan
Kaufmann, Adriaan H. Runberg
Nigeria..........................................
................................Etim Inyang
Norway .........................................
.............................RolfNormann Torgersen
Peru............................................
................................Enrique Lafosse
Philippines.......................................
..........................Baltazar Aquino
Poland.........................................................................
Jozef.Wojciechowski
Portugal.......................................................................
Armando De Paula, Coelho, Antonio Brito da Silva
Republic of Korea .................................
.....................Tong Un Park
Romania.........................................
............................Victor Mateevici
San
Marino.................................................................
Wilhelm Muller-Femricn
Saudi
Arabia...............................................................
Abdul Munem Bas
Spain...........................................................................
Joaquin Buxo-DuIce
Sudan..........................................................................
Ali Yassin
Sweden .........................................
............................Bertil G. Homquist
Switzerland ......................................
........................Oscar Schurch
Thailand......................................................................
Manu Amatayakul
Turkey..........................................
..............................Gultekin Topcam
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist
Republic........................ Markar Makarovich, Yashnik
Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics........................Boris Tikhonovich Shumilin
United Arab
Republic................................................ Mahmoud Younis El
Ansary, YoussefEzzeldine
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland .....
James Richard Madge
United States of America ............................
Wlliam J. Stibravy, Charles W. Prisk, Henry H.
Kelly
Venezuela........................................
...........................Francisco Azpurua Espinoza
Yugoslavia...................................................................Lazar
Moisov
The President of the Conference ......................
......A. Buzzi Quattrini
The Executive Officer..............................
.................F.D. Masson
CHAPTER 4
DRIVERS OF MOTOR VEHICLES
ARTICLE 41
Validity of driving license
1.Contracting Parties shall recognize:
(a) Any domestic driver's license drawn up in their
national language or in one of their national languages, or, if not
drawn up in such a language, accompanied by a certified translation;
(b) Any domestic driver's license conforming to the
provisions of Annex 6 to this Convention; and
(c) Any international driver's license conforming to
the provisions of Annex 7 to this Convention, as valid for driving in
their territories a vehicle coming within the categories covered by
domestic driver's license, provided that the license is still valid
and that it was issued by another Contracting Party or subdivision
thereof or by an association duly answered thereto by such other
Contracting Party. The provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to
learner-driver permits.
2. Notwithstanding the
provisions of the preceding paragraph:
(a) Where the validity of the driving
license is made subject by special endorsement to the condition that
the holder shall wear certain devices or that the vehicle shall be
equipped in a certain way to take account of the drivers disability,
the license shall not be recognized as valid unless those conditions
are observed;
(b) Contracting Parities may refuse to recognize the
validity in their territories of driving licenses held by persons
under sixteen years of age;
(c) Contracting Parties may refuse to recognize the
validity in their territories, for the driving of motor vehicles or
combinations or vehicles in categories C, D and E referred to in
Annexes 6 and 7 to this Convention, of driving licenses held by
persons under twenty-one years of age.
3. Contracting Parties
undertake to adopt such measures as may be necessary to ensure that the
domestic and international driver's licenses referred to the in
subparagraphs 1(a). (b) and (c) of this Article are not issues in their
territories without a reasonable guarantee of the drivers aptitude and
physical fitness.
4. For the purpose of the
application of paragraph 1 and sub-paragraph 2 (c) of this Article:
(a) A motor vehicle of the category B referred to in
Annexes 6 and 7 to this Convention may be coupled to a light trailer, it
may also be coupled to a trailer whose permissible maximum weight exceeds
750 kg (1,650 LB) but does not exceed the unloaded with of the motor
vehicle if the combined permissible maximum weights of the vehicles so
couple does not exceed 3,500 kg (7,700 LB);
(b) A motor vehicle of
the category C or of the category D referred to in Annexes 6 and 7 to this
convention may be coupled to a light trailer without the resultant
combination ceasing to belong to category C or category D.
5. An international driver's
license shall be issued only to the holder of a domestic driver's license
for the issue of which the minimum condition lad down in the Convention
has been fulfilled. It shall not be valid after the expiry of the
corresponding domestic driver's license.
Article 42
Suspension of the
validity of driver's licenses
1. Contracting Parties or
sub-divisions thereof may withdraw from a driver the right to use his
domestic or international driver's license in their territories if he
commits in their territories a breach of their regulations rendering him
liable under their legislation's to the forfeiture of his license. In such
a case the competent authority of the Contracting Party or sub-division
thereof withdrawing the right to use the permit may:
(a) Withdrawal and retain
international driver's license until the period of the withdrawal of use
expires or until the holder leaves its territory, whichever is the
earlier;
(b) Notify the withdrawal of
the right to use international driver's license, or domestic driver's
license to the authority by or on behalf of which the license issued;
(c) In the case of an
international driver's license, enter in the space provided for the
purpose an endorsement to the effect that the license is no longer valid
in its territories;
(d) Where it has not applied
the procedure for which provision in made in sub-paragraph (a) of this
paragraph, supplement the communication referred to tin sub-paragraph (b)
by requesting the authority which issued the license, or on behalf of
which the license was issued, to notify the person concerned of the
decision taken with regard to him.
2. Contracting Parties shall
endeavor to notify the persons concerned of the decisions communicated to
them in accordance with the procedure laid down in paragraph 1(d) of this
Article.
3. Nothing in this Convention
shall be constructed as prohibiting Contracting Parties or sub-divisions
thereof from preventing a driver holding a domestic or international
driver's license from driving if its is evident or proved that his
condition is such that he is unable to drive safely or if the right to
drive has been withdrawn from him in the State in which he has his normal
residence.
Article 43
Transitional provisions
International driver's license
conforming to the provisions of the Convention on Road Traffic done at
Geneva on 19 September 1949 and issued within a period of five years from
the date of the entry into force of this Convention in accordance with
Article 47, paragraph 1 thereof shall be accorded, for the purposes of
Article 41 and 42 of this Convention, the same treatment as the
international driver's licenses provided for in this Convention.
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