For the purposes of this Agreement:

(a)

"Vehicle" means any motor vehicle or trailer; this term includes any combination of vehicles;

(b)

"Motor vehicle" means any vehicle provided with a propulsion engine, travelling on road by its own means and which is normally used in road transport of persons or goods or on the road haulage of vehicles used for transport Persons or goods; this term does not include agricultural tractors;

(c)

By "trailer" means any vehicle intended to be coupled to an automobile; this term includes semi-tugs;

(d)

"Semi-trailer" means any trailer intended to be coupled to an automobile in such a way that it rests in part on the motor vehicle and that a substantial part of its weight and the weight of its load is borne by that automobile;

(e)

"Vehicle set" means coupled vehicles which take part in road traffic as a unit;

(f) ¹

"Maximum permissible mass" means the maximum mass of the laden vehicle declared admissible by the competent authority of the State in which the vehicle is registered;

(g) ²

By "road transport" means any movement carried out, in whole or in part and in a vacuum or in charge on the road network open to the public, by a vehicle used for the transport of passengers or goods;

(h)

"International road transport" means any road transport which involves crossing at least one border;

(i)

By "regular services" means the services which provide for the transport of persons carried out according to a frequency and on specified routes, these services which can take and place persons at predetermined stops. An operating regulation or documents, taking place, approved by the competent authorities of the Contracting Parties and published by the carrier before application, shall define the conditions of carriage, in particular the Frequency, schedules, tariffs and the obligation to transport, to the extent that these conditions are not specified by a legal or regulatory text. Regardless of the organiser of the transport, they shall also be considered as regular services those who transport specified categories of persons to the exclusion of other passengers, to the extent that such services are carried out in accordance with Conditions specified in para. 1 of this definition. The services of this category, in particular those providing for the transport of workers to the place of work and the transport of workers to their homes or the transport of schoolchildren to educational establishments and to their homes, shall be referred to as the Hereinafter "special regular services";

(j) ³

"Driver" means any person, whether employed or not, who drives the vehicle, even for a short period of time, or who is on board the vehicle in the course of his or her duties in order to be able to drive the vehicle;

(k)

By "crew member" or "crew member", the driver or one of the following persons, whether or not the driver or persons are employed:

(i)

The conveyor, that is, any person accompanying the driver in order to assist the driver in certain manoeuvres and normally takes an effective part in the transport operations, without being a driver within the meaning of s. (j) of this article;

(ii)

A recipient, that is, any person who accompanies the driver of a vehicle carrying persons and who is in particular responsible for issuing or controlling tickets or other documents giving passengers the right to travel in the Vehicle;

(l)

By "week", the period from 0 hours on Monday to 24 hours on Sunday;

(m) ⁴

"Rest" means any uninterrupted period during which the driver may freely dispose of his or her time;

(n) ⁵

"Interruption" means any period during which a driver does not have the right to drive or perform other tasks, and which must only allow him to rest;

(o) ⁶

"Daily rest period" means the part of a day during which a driver may freely dispose of his or her time and which may be a "normal daily rest period" or a "reduced daily rest period":

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"Normal daily rest period" means any rest period of at least 11 hours. This normal daily rest period may also be taken in two instalments, the first of which shall be an uninterrupted period of at least three hours and the second shall be an uninterrupted period of at least nine hours;

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"Reduced daily rest time" means any rest period of at least nine hours, but less than 11 hours;

(p) ⁷

By "weekly rest period", a weekly period during which a driver may freely dispose of his time, and which may be a "normal weekly rest period" or a "reduced weekly rest period":

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"Normal weekly rest period" means any rest period of at least forty-five hours;

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"Reduced weekly rest period" means any rest period of less than forty-five hours, which may be reduced to a minimum of twenty-four consecutive hours, subject to the conditions set out in subs. 6 of the art. 8 of the Agreement;

(q) ⁸

"Other duties" means any activity, other than conduct, including any activity performed for the same or another employer, in or outside the transportation sector. Wait time and time not spent driving past driving, a ferry or a train is not considered to be a "other task";

(r) ⁹

"Driving time" means the duration of driving recorded automatically or semi-automatically or manually under the conditions laid down in this Agreement;

(s) ¹⁰

"Daily driving time" means the total driving time accumulated between the end of a daily rest period and the beginning of the following daily rest period or between a daily rest period and a weekly rest period;

(t) ¹¹

"Weekly driving time" means the total driving time accumulated over a week;

(u) ¹²

"Driving time" means a cumulative driving time between the moment when the driver is driving after a rest period or a break and when he is observing a rest period or a break. Driving time may be continuous or fragmented;

(v) ¹³

"Crew conduct" means the situation in which, during a period of driving between two consecutive daily rest periods, or between a daily rest period and a weekly rest period, there are at least two drivers to be The vehicle to ensure succession. During the first hour of crew driving, the presence of another or other drivers is optional, but is compulsory for the remainder of the period to be run;

(w) ¹⁴ "Transport undertaking" means any natural or legal person, association or group of persons without legal personality, whether for profit or not, or any public body with legal personality or dependent on an authority Having legal personality which carries out transport by road, on behalf of others or on its own account;

This Agreement shall apply in the territory of each Contracting Party to any international carriage by road carried out by any vehicle registered in the territory of that Contracting Party or in the territory of any other Party Contracting Party.

2. However, unless otherwise agreed between the Contracting Parties whose territory is borrowed, this Agreement shall not apply to international carriage by road carried out by:

(a)

Vehicles used for the transport of goods if the maximum authorised mass of the vehicle, including trailer or semi-trailer vehicles, does not exceed 3.5 tonnes;

(b)

Vehicles for the carriage of passengers which, according to their type of construction and equipment, are capable of carrying a maximum of nine persons, including the driver, and are intended for that purpose;

(c)

Vehicles used for the carriage of passengers by regular services whose route of the line does not exceed 50 km;

(d)

Vehicles with a maximum authorized speed not exceeding 40 km per hour;

(e)

Vehicles belonging to the services of the army, the civil protection, the firemen and the forces responsible for the maintenance of public order, or leased without drivers by them, where the transport falls within the proper function entrusted to these services and Is carried out under their conduct;

(f)

Vehicles used in emergency or rescue missions, including the transportation of humanitarian aid for non-commercial purposes;

(g)

Specialized vehicles assigned to medical tasks;

(h)

Specialized troubleshooting vehicles operating within 100 km of their point of attack;

(i)

Vehicles undergoing road tests for technical improvement, repair or maintenance, and new or processed vehicles not yet put into circulation;

(j)

Vehicles with a maximum authorised mass not exceeding 7.5 tonnes, used for non-commercial transport of goods;

(k)

Commercial vehicles which are of a historic character in accordance with the law of the Contracting Party in which they are conducted and which are used for the transport of passengers or goods for non-commercial purposes.

(1) Each Contracting Party shall apply on its territory to international carriage by road carried out by any vehicle registered in the territory of a State not Contracting Party to this Agreement at least as demanding Those that are provided for in s. 5 to 10 of this Agreement.

2. ¹ (a)

However, any Contracting Party may, in the case of a vehicle registered in a State which is not a Contracting Party to this Agreement, require, instead of the control apparatus conforming to the specifications of the Annex to this Agreement, that Daily record sheets completed by hand by each crew member for the period of time from entry into the territory of the first Contracting Party.

(b)

To this end, each crew member shall record, on his registration sheet, the particulars relating to his periods of professional and rest activities, using the appropriate graphic symbols as defined in Art. 12 of the Annex to this Agreement.

Each Contracting Party may apply higher or lower minima than those provided for in Art. 5 to 8 inclusive. The provisions of this Agreement shall, however, remain applicable to drivers engaged in international transport operations on vehicles registered in another Contracting State or non-Contracting States.

The minimum age of drivers for the carriage of goods shall be fixed:

(a)

For vehicles, including, where appropriate, trailers or semi-trailers, the maximum authorised weight of which is less than or equal to 7.5 tonnes at 18 years of age;

(b)

For other vehicles, to:

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Twenty-one years of age or

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18 years of age, provided that the person concerned has a certificate of professional competence attesting to the completion of a road haulage operator training recognised by one of the Contracting Parties. Contracting Parties shall be informed of the minimum level of national training required in their country and of other relevant conditions applicable to drivers of the carriage of goods in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement.

2. Drivers assigned to passenger transport shall be at least twenty-one years old.

Drivers assigned to the carriage of passengers on journeys exceeding a radius of 50 kilometres around the usual home point of the vehicle shall also meet one of the following conditions:

(a)

Have carried out at least one year the activity of drivers assigned to the carriage of goods of vehicles with a maximum authorised weight of more than 3.5 tonnes;

(b)

Have carried out at least one year the activity of the driver assigned to the passenger transport on journeys not exceeding a radius of 50 kilometres around the usual home point of the vehicle, or to other types of passenger transport not Subject to this Agreement in so far as the competent authority considers that they have in this way acquired the necessary experience;

(c)

Carry a certificate of professional competence attesting to the completion of a road passenger driver training recognised by one of the Contracting Parties.

1. The daily driving time, as defined in Art. 1 (s) of this Agreement shall not exceed 9 hours. It can be extended up to ten hours, but not more than twice during the week .

2. The weekly driving time, within the meaning of s. 1 (t) of this Agreement shall not exceed 56 hours.

3. The total driving time accumulated in two consecutive weeks shall not exceed 90 hours.

4. Driving time shall include all driving times completed in the territory of the Contracting Parties or of non-Contracting Parties.

5. A driver registers, as another task, any time as defined in art. 1 (q), as well as any time spent driving a vehicle used for commercial operations not falling within the scope of this Agreement, and records any period of availability, as defined in par. 3 (c) of Art. 12 of the Annex to this Agreement. This record is entered either manually on a record sheet or printed output, or by using the manual input feature of the control device.

1. ¹ After a driving time of four and a half hours, a driver shall observe an uninterrupted break of at least 45 minutes, unless he takes a rest period.

2. ² This trap , Within the meaning of s. 1 (n) of this Agreement may be replaced by an interruption of 15 minutes followed by an interruption of at least 30 minutes, each interspersed in the driving time or immediately thereafter, in order to comply with the provisions of par. 1.

3. ³ For the purposes of this Article, waiting time and time not spent on driving past in a vehicle running, a ferry or a train shall not be regarded as other work within the meaning of Art. 1 (q) of this Agreement, and may be described as "interruptions".

4. Interruptions observed under this Article shall not be considered as daily rest.

1. The driver takes daily and weekly rest periods within the meaning of sub-paragraphs (o) and (p) of s. 1.

2. In each period of twenty-four hours after the end of the previous daily or weekly rest period, the driver shall have taken a new daily rest period.

If the part of the daily rest period which falls within that twenty-four hour period is at least nine hours, but less than 11 hours, the daily rest period in question shall be considered as a reduced daily rest period.

3. By way of derogation from s. 2, a driver who participates in the driving of a vehicle crew shall have taken a new daily rest period of at least nine hours within thirty hours after the end of a daily or weekly rest period.

A daily rest period may be extended to become a normal weekly rest period or a reduced weekly rest period.

5. A driver may not take more than three reduced daily rest periods between two weekly rest periods.

6. A)

In two consecutive weeks, a driver shall take at least:

(i)

Two normal weekly rest periods, or

(ii)

A normal weekly rest period and a weekly rest period reduced by at least 24 hours. However, the reduction shall be compensated by an equivalent rest period taken en bloc before the end of the third week following the week in question.

A weekly rest period shall begin at the latest at the end of six periods of twenty-four hours from the previous weekly rest period.

(b)

By way of derogation from s. 6 (a), a driver engaged in a single international passenger service, other than a regular service, may postpone his weekly rest period until the end of twelve periods of 24 hours after his period of Previous weekly rest, provided that:

(i)

The service shall last at least 24 consecutive hours in a Contracting Party or a third country, other than that in which the service had commenced, and

(ii)

The driver takes, after using the exemption:

A.

Two normal weekly rest periods,

B.

Either a normal weekly rest period and a reduced weekly rest period of at least 24 hours. The reduction shall, however, be compensated by an equivalent rest period taken en bloc before the end of the third week following the end of the derogation period,

And

(iii)

Four years after the implementation of the digital tachograph by the country of registration, the vehicle is equipped with a control device in accordance with Appendix 1B of the Annex to this Agreement, and

(iv)

After 1 ^Er January 2014, in the case of conduct carried out between 22:00 and 06:00, the vehicle is driven to the crew or the duration of conduct referred to in Art. 7 is reduced to three hours.

(c)

By way of derogation from s. 6 (a), each driver who participates in the flight crew shall take a weekly rest period of at least 45 hours. This rest period can be reduced to a minimum of 24 hours (reduced weekly rest period). However, each reduction shall be compensated by an equivalent rest period taken as a block no later than the third week following the week in which the reduction was made.

A weekly rest period shall begin at the latest at the end of six periods of 24 hours from the previous weekly rest period.

7. Any rest taken in compensation for the reduction of a weekly rest period shall be attached to another rest period of at least nine hours.

8. If a driver makes the choice, the daily rest periods and the reduced weekly rest periods, taken out of the point of attachment, may be taken on board the vehicle, provided that the vehicle is equipped, for each driver, of a Suitable sleeping equipment as provided for by the manufacturer when the vehicle is designed and at the end of the vehicle.

9. A weekly rest time on two weeks can be counted in either week, but not in both.

1. Notwithstanding s. 8, where a driver accompanies a vehicle which is carried by ferry-boat or by train and takes a normal daily rest period, this rest period may be interrupted not more than twice by other activities as long as the conditions To be completed:

(a)

The portion of the daily rest taken ashore must be in place before or after the portion of the daily rest taken on board the ferry or train;

(b)

The period between the parts of the daily rest shall be as short as possible and shall not, under any circumstances, exceed one hour before boarding or after deplaning, the customs formalities being included in the boarding operations Or deplaning.

During all parts of the daily rest, the driver shall be able to have a berth.

2. Any time spent to travel to a place in order to take over a vehicle falling within the scope of this Agreement, or to return, when the vehicle is not in the driver's home or at the operational centre of The employer in which the driver normally has his or her home point will not be counted as rest or rest unless the driver is in a ferry or train and has access to suitable sleeping equipment.

(3) Any time spent by a driver when driving a vehicle that does not fall within the scope of this Agreement when travelling to or returning to a vehicle falling within the scope of this Agreement. In the driver's home or in the operational centre of the employer where the driver normally has his or her home point, will be counted as " other task.

Provided that it does not endanger road safety and in order to enable it to reach an appropriate stopping point, the driver may derogate from this Agreement to the extent necessary to ensure the safety of the persons, the vehicle or its Loading. The driver shall indicate the type and reason for the exemption on the registration sheet or on a printed output of the control device or in the service registry, at the latest upon arrival at the appropriate breakpoint. ¹

The Contracting Parties shall prescribe the installation and use on vehicles registered in their territory of a control apparatus in accordance with the requirements of this Agreement, including its Annex and its Appendices.

2. The control apparatus within the meaning of this Agreement shall, in respect of its conditions of construction, installation, use and control, comply with the requirements of this Agreement, including its annex and its appendices.

3. A control apparatus which complies with the Regulation (EEC) n ^O 3821/85 of the Council of 20 December 1985 concerning its conditions of construction, installation, use and control shall be considered to be in conformity with the requirements of this Agreement, including its Annex and its Appendices.

1. ¹ The undertaking shall arrange the road transport service and give appropriate instructions to the crew members in such a way that they are able to comply with the provisions of this Agreement.

2. It shall regularly monitor periods of driving and other work, as well as hours of rest, using all the documents available to it, such as individual control booklets. If the Commission finds infringements of this Agreement, it must put an end to it without delay and take measures to prevent them from reoccurring, for example by changing timetables and routes.

3. It is prohibited to pay, even by the granting of premiums or salary increases, employed drivers according to the distances travelled and/or the volume of the goods carried, unless such remuneration is of such a nature as to Jeopardize road safety or encourage the commission of violations of this Agreement. ²

4. ³ A transport undertaking shall be liable for offences committed by drivers of the undertaking, even if the infringement has been committed in the territory of another Contracting Party or of a country which is not a Contracting Party.

Without prejudice to the right of Contracting Parties to hold transport undertakings fully responsible, Contracting Parties may link this responsibility to non-compliance by the undertaking of s. The Contracting Parties may take into consideration any evidence establishing that the transport undertaking cannot reasonably be held responsible for the offence committed.

5. ⁴ The undertakings, consignors, shippers, tour operators, freight forwarders, subcontractors and operators employing drivers shall ensure that the transport schedules agreed upon by contract are in accordance with this Agreement.

Each Contracting Party shall take all appropriate measures to ensure compliance with the provisions of this Agreement, in particular by means of checks of an adequate level carried out on the roads and in the premises of the undertakings concerned On an annual basis a large and representative part of the drivers, undertakings and vehicles of all categories of transport falling within the scope of this Agreement.

(a) ²

The competent administrations of the Contracting Parties shall organise the controls in such a way that:

(i)

In a calendar year, at least 1 % of the working days carried out by the drivers of vehicles to which this Agreement applies is controlled; from 1 ^Er January 2010, this percentage will be at least 2 % and from 1 ^Er January 2012 at least 3 %;

(ii)

At least 15 % of the total number of working days checked is on the road and at least 25 % on business premises. From 1 ^Er January 2010 at least 30 % of the total number of working days checked will be on the road and at least 50 % on business premises.

(b) ³

The controls carried out on roads shall cover the following:

(i)

Daily and weekly driving times, interruptions and daily and weekly rest periods;

(ii)

The record sheets of the preceding days, which must be on board the vehicle, and/or the data stored for the same period in the driver's card and/or in the memory of the control apparatus and/or printed output, Where applicable;

(iii)

The correct operation of the control apparatus.

Such checks shall be carried out without discrimination against resident or non-resident vehicles, undertakings and drivers, and irrespective of the point of departure and arrival of the journey or the type of tachograph.

(c) ⁴

The elements to be checked in the premises of undertakings, in addition to the elements subject to road checks and compliance with the provisions of subs. 2 of the art. 11 of the Annex, shall relate to:

(i)

Weekly rest periods and driving times between these rest periods;

(ii)

The two-week limitation of driving hours;

(iii)

Compensation for the reduction of weekly rest periods pursuant to s. 6 of the art. 8;

(iv)

The use of the record sheets and/or data and paper copies from the embedded unit and driver's card and/or the organisation of the drivers' working time.

2. Within the framework of mutual assistance, the competent authorities of the Contracting Parties shall regularly communicate all available information concerning:

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Infringements of this Agreement by non-residents and any sanction imposed for such offences;

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The sanctions applied by a Contracting Party to its residents for such offences committed in other Contracting Parties.

In the case of serious infringements, this information must include the sanctions applied.

3. If, in the course of a roadside check of the driver of a vehicle registered in another Contracting Party, the findings give reasons for the assessment that the offences are not detectable in the course of this In the absence of the necessary elements, the competent authorities of the Contracting Parties concerned shall give each other assistance in order to clarify the situation. Where, in order to do so, the competent Contracting Party performs a check in the premises of the undertaking, the results of that inspection shall be notified to the other Contracting Party concerned.

4. The Contracting Parties shall cooperate in the organisation of concerted checks on roads.

Every two years, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe shall publish a report on the application by the Contracting Parties of s. 1 of this article.

6. ⁵ (a)

Any Contracting Party shall permit the competent authorities to impose a penalty on a driver for an infringement of this Agreement found on its territory and having not already given rise to punishment, even if the infringement has been committed on the Territory of another Contracting Party or of a non-Contracting Party.

(b)

Any Contracting Party shall permit the competent authorities to impose a penalty on an undertaking for an infringement of this Agreement found on its territory and which have not already given rise to sanctions, even if the infringement has been committed on the Territory of another Contracting Party or of a non-Contracting Party.

As an exception, where an offence has been committed by a company located in another Contracting Party or in a non-Contracting Party, the penalty shall be imposed in accordance with the procedure laid down in the Agreement Bilateral road transport between the Parties involved.

The Contracting Parties will consider, starting in 2011, the possibility of removing the exception provided for in subs. 6 (b), provided they so wish.

7. ⁶ Where a Contracting Party initiates a proceeding or imposes a sanction for a given offence, it shall provide the driver with the proof in writing in writing.

8. ⁷ Contracting Parties shall ensure that a system of proportionate sanctions , Which may include financial penalties, or set up in the event of infringement of this Agreement by undertakings or associated consignors, shippers, tour operators, freight forwarders, subcontractors and agencies employing Drivers associated with them.

1. In order to facilitate international road controls, model form templates will, as appropriate, be introduced in the Annex to this Agreement which is supplemented by a new Appendix 3. These forms will be introduced or modified in accordance with the procedure set out in Art. 22 ^Ter .

2. Forms listed in Appendix 3 are not mandatory. However, if they are used, they will have to respect the content as defined, in particular with regard to numbering, order and heading of headings.

3. Contracting Parties may supplement this data with other information in order to meet national or regional requirements. Such additional information shall under no circumstances be required for transport originating in another Contracting Party or a third country. To this end, they will have to appear on the form in a completely separate way from the data defined for international traffic.

4. These forms shall be accepted in the event of presentation during road traffic control carried out in the territory of the Contracting Parties to this Agreement.

1. All new provisions of this Agreement, including its Annex and Appendices 1B and 2, relating to the introduction of a digital control apparatus shall become mandatory for countries that are Contracting Parties to this Agreement. No later than four years after the date of entry into force of the relevant amendments resulting from the procedure laid down in Art. 21. Consequently, all vehicles covered by this Agreement which have been put into circulation for the first time after the expiry of that period shall be equipped with a control device in accordance with these new requirements. During this four-year period, Contracting Parties, which have not yet implemented those provisions, will have to accept and control on their territory vehicles registered in another Contracting Party to the Agreement already Equipped with the digital control device in question.

2.

(a) The Contracting Parties shall take the necessary measures to be able to issue the driver cards referred to in the Annex to this Agreement, as amended, not later than three months before the expiry of the four-year period referred to in par. (1) This minimum period of three months shall also be observed in the case of implementation by a Contracting Party of the provisions relating to the digital control apparatus in accordance with Appendix 1B to this Annex, before the expiry of the period Four years. The said Contracting Party shall inform the secretariat of the Working Party on Road Transport of the Economic Commission for Europe of the progress of the implementation of the digital control apparatus in accordance with Appendix 1B to the Present annex on its territory;

(b)

Pending the issuance by the Contracting Parties of the maps referred to in para. (a) the provisions of s. 14 of the Annex to this Agreement shall apply to drivers who may be required to drive vehicles equipped with a digital control device in accordance with Appendix 1B to this Annex.

3. Any instrument of ratification or accession deposited by a State after the date of entry into force of this amendment shall be deemed to apply to the Agreement as amended, including the period of application defined in par. 1.

If the accession takes place less than two years before the expiry of the period referred to in par. 1, the State, upon the deposit of its instrument of ratification or accession, shall inform the depositary of the date on which the digital control apparatus will be effective on its territory. This State may take advantage of a transitional period not exceeding two years from the date of entry into force of the Agreement in respect of that State. The depositary shall then inform all the Contracting Parties.

The provisions of the preceding paragraph shall also apply in the case of the accession of a State after the expiry of the four-year period referred to in subs. 1.

Provisions contained at the end of subs. 7 (a) and 7 (b) of Art. 12 of the Annex to this Agreement shall apply 3 months after the entry into force of this Amendment .

(1) This Agreement shall be open for signature until 31 March 1971 and, after that date, for the accession of the member States of the Economic Commission for Europe and of the States admitted to the Commission in an advisory capacity in accordance with subs. 8 of the mandate of this Commission.

2. This Agreement shall be ratified.

3. Instruments of ratification or accession shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

4. This Agreement shall enter into force on the one hundred and eightieth day after the deposit of the eighth instrument of ratification or accession.

5. For each State ratifying or acceding to this Agreement after the deposit of the eighth instrument of ratification or accession referred to in s. 4 of this Article, this Agreement shall enter into force 180 days after the date of the deposit by that State of its instrument of ratification or accession.

1. Any Contracting Party may denounce this Agreement by notification addressed to the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

(2) The denunciation shall take effect six months after the date on which the Secretary-General has received such notification.

This Agreement shall cease to have effect if, after its entry into force, the number of Contracting Parties is less than three for any period of twelve consecutive months.

(1) Any State may, when signing this Agreement or upon the deposit of its instrument of ratification or accession or at any later time, declare by notification addressed to the Secretary-General of the United Nations that the The validity of this Agreement shall be extended to all or part of the territories it represents at international level. This Agreement shall apply to the territory or territories referred to in the notification from the one hundred and eightieth day after receipt of such notification by the Secretary-General or, if so far this Agreement is not yet Entered into force, from the date of its entry into force.

(2) Any State which has made, in accordance with the preceding paragraph, a declaration which has the effect of making this Agreement applicable to a territory which it represents on the international level may, in accordance with Art. 15 of this Agreement, denounce this Agreement in respect of that Territory.

1. Any dispute between two or more Contracting Parties concerning the interpretation or application of this Agreement shall, as far as possible, be settled by negotiation between the Parties in dispute.

(2) Any dispute which has not been settled by negotiation shall be referred to arbitration if any of the Contracting Parties in dispute so requests and shall, accordingly, be referred to one or more arbitrators chosen by mutual agreement Parties in dispute. If, within three months of the date of the request for arbitration, the disputing Parties are unable to agree on the choice of an arbitrator or arbitrators, any such Party may request the Secretary-General of the United Nations To appoint a sole arbitrator to which the dispute shall be referred for decision.

The award of the arbitrator or arbitrators designated in accordance with the preceding paragraph shall be binding on the Contracting Parties in dispute.

(1) Any State may, at the time of signing or ratifying this Agreement or acceding to this Agreement, declare that it does not consider itself bound by s. 2 and 3 of Art. 18 of this Agreement. The other Contracting Parties shall not be bound by those paragraphs with respect to any Contracting Party which has made such a reservation.

(2) If, upon the deposit of its instrument of ratification or accession, a State formulates a reservation other than that provided for in par. 1 of this Article, the Secretary-General of the United Nations shall transmit this reservation to those States which have already deposited their instruments of ratification or accession and have not subsequently denounced this Agreement. The reservation shall be deemed accepted if, within the period of six months from the date of such communication, none of these States has objected to its admission. Otherwise, the reservation will not be accepted and, if the State which has formulated it does not withdraw it, the deposit of the instrument of ratification or accession of that State shall have no effect. For the purposes of this paragraph, no account shall be taken of the opposition of States whose accession or ratification would have no effect under this paragraph on the basis of the reservations that they would have made.

3. Any Contracting Party whose reservation has been adopted in the Protocol for the signing of this Agreement or which has made a reservation in accordance with par. 1 of this section or makes a reservation that has been accepted in accordance with s. 2 of this Article may, at any time, withdraw this reservation by notification addressed to the Secretary-General.

(1) After the present Agreement has been in force for three years, any Contracting Party may, by notification addressed to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, request the convening of a conference to review The Agreement. The Secretary-General shall notify all Contracting Parties of this request and shall convene a Review Conference if, within four months from the date of the notification addressed by him, at least one third of the Contracting Parties Signify their consent to this request.

(2) If a conference is convened in accordance with the preceding paragraph, the Secretary-General shall notify all Contracting Parties and invite them to submit, within a period of three months, the proposals they would like to see examined by the The conference. The Secretary-General shall communicate to all Contracting Parties the provisional agenda of the Conference, as well as the text of those proposals, at least three months before the opening date of the Conference.

The Secretary-General shall invite to any conference convened in accordance with this article all States referred to in s. 1 of the art. 14 of this Agreement.

Any Contracting Party may propose one or more amendments to this Agreement. The text of any proposed amendment shall be communicated to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who shall communicate it to all Contracting Parties and shall bring it to the attention of the other States referred to in subs. 1 of the art. 14 of this Agreement.

2. Within six months from the date of the communication by the Secretary-General of the draft amendment, any Contracting Party may make known to the Secretary-General:

(a)

Or that it has an objection to the proposed amendment;

(b)

Either that, although it intends to accept the project, the conditions necessary for this acceptance are not yet fulfilled in its State.

(3) As long as a Contracting Party which has addressed the communication provided for in par. 2 B ) Of this Article shall not notify the Secretary-General of its acceptance, it may, for a period of nine months from the expiry of the six-month period for the communication, submit an objection to the proposed amendment.

4. If an objection is made to the draft amendment under the conditions laid down in subs. 2 and 3 of this Article, the amendment shall be deemed not to have been accepted and shall have no effect.

5. If no objection has been made to the proposed amendment under the conditions laid down in subs. 2 and 3 of this Article, the amendment shall be deemed to be accepted on the following date:

(a)

Where no Contracting Party has sent a communication under s. 2 B ) Of this Article, upon the expiry of the six-month period referred to in that paragraph. 2 of this article;

(b)

Where at least one Contracting Party has sent a communication pursuant to s. 2 B ) Of this Article, at the earliest of two dates:

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The date on which all Contracting Parties that have sent such a communication have notified the Secretary-General of their acceptance of the project, however, that date shall be deferred until the expiry of the six-month period referred to in subs. 2 of this Article if all acceptances were previously notified at that time;

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Expiry of the nine-month period referred to in s. 3 of this article.

5 ^Bis . In the event that a country became a Contracting Party to this agreement between the time of notification of a proposed amendment and the time when it was deemed accepted, the secretariat of the Working Party on Road Transport of the Commission Economic for Europe will notify the amendment as soon as possible

Proposed to the new State Party. The latter may express any objection to the Secretary-General before the expiry of the period of six months from the date of circulation of the original amendment communication to all Contracting Parties. ¹

6. Any amendment deemed to be accepted shall enter into force three months after the date on which it is deemed to have been accepted.

The Secretary-General shall, as soon as possible, send to all Contracting Parties a notification to inform them whether an objection has been raised against the draft amendment in accordance with subs. 2 A ) Of this Article and if one or more Contracting Parties have communicated a communication to it in accordance with paragraph 1. 2 B ) In this article. In the event that one or more Contracting Parties have addressed such a communication, it shall subsequently notify all Contracting Parties whether the Contracting Party that has addressed such a communication raises an objection Against the draft amendment or accept it.

8. Independently of the amendment procedure provided for in s. 1 to 6 of this Article, the Annex to this Agreement may be amended by agreement between the competent Authorities of all Contracting Parties; if the competent Authority of a Contracting Party has declared that its national law Require the consent of the competent authority of the Contracting Party concerned to amend the Annex to be subject to a special authorization for that purpose or for the approval of a legislative body As such, as at the time the competent authority has declared to the Secretary General that the required approvals or approvals were obtained. The agreement between the competent authorities shall fix the date of entry into force of the amended annex and may provide that, during a transitional period, the old annex shall remain in force, in whole or in part, simultaneously with the amended annex.

Appendices 1 and 2 to the Annex to this Agreement may be amended in accordance with the procedure set out in this Article.

2. At the request of a Contracting Party, any amendment of Appendices 1 and 2 to the Annex to this Agreement proposed by that Party shall be considered by the Main Working Party on Road Transport of the Economic Commission for Europe.

(3) If adopted by a majority of the members present and voting, and if this majority includes the majority of the Contracting Parties present and voting, the amendment shall be communicated for acceptance to the competent administrations of all Contracting Parties by the Secretary-General.

4. The amendment shall be accepted if, within six months from the date of this communication, less than one third of the competent administrations of the Contracting Parties shall notify the Secretary-General of their objection to the amendment.

4 ^Bis . In the event that a country became a Party to this Agreement between the time of notification of a draft amendment and the time when it was deemed to have been accepted, the secretariat of the Working Party on Road Transport of the Economic Commission for Europe will notify the proposed amendment to the new State Party as soon as possible. The latter may express any objection to the Secretary-General before the expiry of the period of six months from the date of circulation of the original amendment communication to all Contracting Parties. ¹

5. Any accepted amendment shall be communicated by the Secretary-General to all Contracting Parties and shall enter into force three months after the date of such notification.

Appendix 1B to the Annex to this Agreement shall be amended in accordance with the procedure set out in this Article.

2. Any proposed amendment to the introductory articles of Appendix 1B shall be adopted by the Working Party on Road Transport of the Economic Commission for Europe by a majority of the Contracting Parties present and voting. The amendment thus adopted will be transmitted by the secretariat of the above-mentioned Working Group to the Secretary-General for notification to all Contracting Parties. It shall enter into force three months after the date of its notification to the Contracting Parties.

Appendix 1B, adaptation to this Agreement of Annex 1B ² Of Regulation (EEC) No 3821/85 referred to in Art. 10 of this Agreement, depending directly on the developments introduced in Annex 1B by the bodies of the European Union, any amendment to this Annex shall be applicable to Appendix 1B under the following conditions:

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The secretariat of the Working Party on Road Transport of the Economic Commission for Europe will officially inform the competent authorities of all Contracting Parties of the publication in the Official Journal of the Communities European amendments to Annex 1B of the Community Regulation and, concomitantly, will communicate this information to the Secretary-General together with a copy of the relevant texts.

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These amendments shall enter into force directly at the level of Appendix 1B three months after the date of the communication of the information to the Contracting Parties.

Where a proposal for an amendment concerning the Annex to this Agreement will involve amending also Appendix 1B, the amendments relating to this Appendix shall not enter into force before those relating to the Annex. Where, in this context, the amendments to Appendix 1B are submitted at the same time as those relating to the Annex, their date of entry into force shall be determined by that resulting from the procedure implemented pursuant to Art. 21.

Appendix 3 to the Annex to this Agreement shall be amended in accordance with the procedure set out below.

2. Any proposal for the entry into Appendix 3 of standard forms in accordance with Art. 12 ^Bis The present Agreement or to amend the existing forms shall be subject to the adoption of the Working Party on Road Transport of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. The proposal shall be deemed accepted if adopted by a majority of the Contracting Parties present and voting.

The secretariat of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe will officially inform the competent authorities of all Contracting Parties to the Agreement on the adoption of these amendments and, concomitantly, communicate this Information to the Secretary-General accompanied by a copy of the relevant text.

3. Any standard form thus adopted may be used three months after the date of the communication of the information to the Contracting Parties to the Agreement.

In addition to the notifications under s. 20 and 21 of this Agreement, the Secretary-General of the United Nations shall notify the States referred to in para. 1 of the art. 14 of this Agreement:

(a)

Ratifications and accessions under Art. 14 of this Agreement;

(b)

The dates on which this Agreement enters into force in accordance with Art. 14 of this Agreement;

(c)

Denunciations under s. 15 of this Agreement;

(d)

The repeal of this Agreement in accordance with Art. 16 of this Agreement;

(e)

Notifications received pursuant to s. 17 of this Agreement;

(f)

Declarations and notifications received in accordance with Art. 19 of this Agreement;

(g)

The entry into force of any amendment in accordance with Art. 21 of this Agreement.

The Protocol for the Signing of this Agreement shall have the same force, value and duration as this Agreement itself shall be considered to be an integral part.

After 31 March 1971, the original of this Agreement shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who shall transmit certified copies thereof to each of the States referred to in s. 1 of the art. 14 of this Agreement.

In witness whereof , the undersigned, duly authorized, have signed this Agreement.

Done at Geneva, 1 ^Er July 1970, in a single copy, in the English and French languages, both texts being equally authentic.

(Suivent signatures)