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UNO traffic conventions

15th November 1968
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• Last Friday the UK signed new UNO Conventions on Traffic Rules and on Road Signs and Signals, at a world conference of road traffic experts in Vienna. The Conventions which will replace an earlier, less detailed, Convention on Road Traffic and a Protocol on Road Signs and Signals drawn up in 1949, are open for accession by all member states of the United Nations and certain specialized agencies, and are subject to ratification. They come into operation 12 months after ratification or accession by 15 signatories.

Provisions laid down relate to ruled of the road, minimum technical standards for motor vehicles, requirement of contracting parties to admit into their territories foreign vehicles which fulfil certain conditions, and prescription of a standard system of road signing, which however, for certain signs, includes alternatives drawn from both European and American systems.

In general, adherence to the Conventions will not necessitate any change in UK practice, although certain rules of the road are set Out in considerably more detail than has hitherto been done in the Highway Code. The Ministry has taken some of this additional detail into account in framing the new version of the Highway Code now before Parliament and due for publication in the New Year.

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Organisations: United Nations
Locations: Vienna

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