United Arab Emirates joins four transport conventions
Geneva, 26 January 2007 -- On 10 January 2007 the United
Arab Emirates acceded to the following United Nations Conventions
on transport: the Conventions on Road Traffic and on Road Signs
and Signals, of 1968, known as the Vienna Conventions; the Convention
on Road Traffic, of 1949, known as the Geneva Convention; and the
Convention on the Temporary Importation of Private Road Vehicles,
of 1954.
The accession of the United Arab Emirates to the Vienna Conventions
brings the total number of Contracting Parties to those instruments
to 66 and 55 respectively. Accession of the UAE to the Geneva Convention
brings the number of Contracting Parties to that Convention to
93, while accession to the Temporary Importation Convention brings
the total number of Parties to this Convention to 81.
The Vienna Conventions provide Governments with a harmonized
legal and technical basis for their national highway codes and
ensure a high level of road safety in the countries that implement
them. The UNECE Working Party on Road Traffic Safety (WP.1) has
recently amended these two Conventions in order to introduce new
road safety provisions or strengthen existing ones. A new provision
introduced was, for example, the prohibition of the use of a handheld
mobile phone while driving.
The Convention on the Private Importation of Private Road Vehicles
allows the temporary admission in a country Party to the Convention
of private road vehicles registered in another country Party to
the Convention without payment of import duties or taxes for the
vehicles.
For further information please contact:
José Capel Ferrer, Director, or
Marie-Noëlle Poirier, or
Poul Hansen
UNECE Transport Division
Palais des Nations
CH - 1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland
Phone: +41 (0) 22 917 2400, 917 3259 / 3258
Fax: +41 (0) 22 917 0039
E-mail: [email protected]
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Website: http://www.unece.org/trans/Welcome.html
Ref: ECE/TRANS/07/N04