European Agreement Supplementing The Convention On Road Traffic

The Road Transport Agreement, commonly known as the Vienna Convention on Road Transport, is an international treaty aimed at facilitating international road traffic and enhancing road safety by establishing uniform traffic rules between contracting parties. The convention was agreed at the UN Economic and Social Council conference on road transport (October 7 to November 8, 1968) and concluded in Vienna on November 8, 1968. It came into force on May 21, 1977. This conference also resulted in agreement on traffic signals and signals. The agreement was amended on September 3, 1993 and March 28, 2006. There is a European convention to complement the Convention on Road Transport (1968), which was concluded in Geneva on 1 May 1971. Geneva, 8 June 2007 — The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (EEC-UN) has published a new publication containing consolidated versions of the 1968 Road Transport Convention and the European Convention complementing the 1971 Convention in English, French and Russian. The European Convention complementing the convention, concluded in 1971 under the aegis of the EEC-UN, aims to achieve greater uniformity of road transport rules in Europe. To this end, the European agreement sets stricter road safety standards than those of the Convention. In addition, binding provisions are adopted and recommended in the convention. With the Vienna Convention on Signs and Signals, the Road Transport Convention provides governments with a harmonised legal and technical basis for their national road traffic codes and ensures a high level of road safety in the countries that implement them.

One of the fundamental principles of the convention was the concept that a driver always has total control and responsibility for the behaviour of a vehicle in traffic. [6] This requirement is being challenged by the development of collision prevention and autonomous driving technologies. [Citation required] The Vienna Convention on Road Transport was concluded in Vienna on 8 November 1968. Since its entry into force on 21 May 1977, it has replaced previous road transport agreements in the signatory states (“contracting parties”), including the 1949 Geneva Convention on Road Transport, under Article 48 of the Convention. The convention has been ratified by 83 countries, but those who have not ratified the convention can still be parties to the 1949 Geneva Convention on Road Transport.