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UNITED NATIONS
CONFERENCE ON ROAD TRAFFIC
Vienna, 7 October - 8 November 1968
Final Act
Convention on Road Traffic
Convention on Road Signs and Signals
FINAL ACT AND RELATED DOCUMENTS
Geneva, 1969
TABLE OF CONTENTS
FINAL ACT AND RELATED DOCUMENTS
I Page
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 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
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
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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