E/ECE/324

Add.8/Rev.2/Amend.1/Corr.1

E/ECE/TRANS/505

29 September 1999

AGREEMENT

CONCERNING THE ADOPTION OF UNIFORM TECHNICAL PRESCRIPTIONS

FOR WHEELED VEHICLES, EQUIPMENT AND PARTS WHICH CAN BE FITTED AND/OR

BE USED ON WHEELED VEHICLES AND THE CONDITIONS FOR RECIPROCAL RECOGNITION

OF APPROVALS GRANTED ON THE BASIS OF THESE PRESCRIPTIONS */

(Revision 2, including the amendments entered into force on 16 October 1995)

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Addendum 8: Regulation No. 9

Revision 2 - Amendment 1 - Corrigendum 1

Corrigendum 1 to the 06 series of amendments

subject of Depositary Notification C.N.706.1999.TREATIES-1 dated 6 August 1999

UNIFORM PROVISIONS CONCERNING THE APPROVAL OF CATEGORY L2, L4 AND L5 VEHICLES WITH REGARD TO NOISE

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UNITED NATIONS

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*/	Former title of the Agreement:

Agreement Concerning the Adoption of Uniform Conditions of Approval and Reciprocal Recognition of Approval for Motor Vehicle Equipment and Parts, done at Geneva on 20 March 1958.

GE.99-

Paragraphs 11. to 11.8., replace by the following text:

"11.	TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS

11.1.	As from the official date of entry into force of the 06 series of amendments, no Contracting Parties applying this Regulation shall refuse to grant ECE approval under this Regulation as amended by the 06 series of amendments.

11.2.	As from the date of entry into force of the 06 series of amendments, Contracting Parties applying this Regulation shall grant ECE approvals only if the vehicle type to be approved meets the requirements of this Regulation as amended by the 06 series of amendments.

11.3.	Contracting Parties applying this Regulation shall not refuse to grant extensions of approval in accordance with the preceding series of amendments to this Regulation.

11.4.	Contracting Parties applying this Regulation shall continue to grant approvals to those types of vehicles which conform to the requirements of this Regulation as amended by the preceding series of amendments until the entry into force of the 06 series of amendments.

11.5.	ECE approvals granted under this Regulation before the entry into force of the 06 series of amendments and all extensions of such approvals, including those granted subsequently under a preceding series of amendments to this Regulation, shall remain valid indefinitely. When the vehicle type approved under the preceding series of amendments meets the requirements of this Regulation as amended by the 06 series of amendments, the Contracting Party which granted the approval shall so notify the other Contracting Parties applying this Regulation.

11.6.	No Contracting Party applying this Regulation shall refuse national type approval of a vehicle type approved under the 06 series of amendments to this Regulation or meeting the requirements thereof.

11.7.	As from 17 June 2003 Contracting Parties applying this Regulation may refuse first national registration (first entry into service) of a vehicle which does not meet the requirements of the 06 series of amendments to this Regulation."

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