CHAPTER XI
TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATIONS
B
Road Traffic1671Regulation No. 71. Uniform provisions concerning the approval of agricultural tractors with regard to the driver's field of vision1 August 19871 August 1987, in accordance with article 1(5).1 August 1987, No. 4789Parties22United Nations, <i>Treaty Series </i>, vol. 1477, p. 242 and doc. E/ECE/324-E/ECE/ TRANS/505/Rev.1/Add.70.<superscript>1</superscript>
Contracting Parties applying Regulation No. 71<superscript>2</superscript>ParticipantApplication of regulation, Succession(d)Belarus 3 May 1995 Belgium 8 Jun 1990 Czech Republic<superscript>3</superscript> 2 Jun 1993 dEuropean Union<superscript>4</superscript>23 Jan 1998 Finland11 Feb 1991 France<superscript>5</superscript> 1 Aug 1987 Germany21 Jun 1996 Hungary 9 Jul 1997 Italy<superscript>5</superscript> 1 Aug 1987 Latvia 5 Jul 2002 Lithuania28 Jan 2002 Luxembourg27 Sep 1996 Netherlands 3 Mar 1988 Norway25 Mar 1993 Poland 7 Apr 1992 Romania 7 Mar 1996 Russian Federation 5 Nov 1991 Serbia19 Mar 2008 Slovakia<superscript>3</superscript>28 May 1993 dSweden 3 Jun 1997 Turkey16 Jan 2001 Ukraine 9 Aug 2002
1For additional references to the texts of the annexed regulations and their amendments, see doc. TRANS/WP.29/343 as updated annually.2For technical reasons and in order to align this chapter with all others in the publication, the date indicated is no longer the date of effect of the regulation for the Contracting Party, but the date of receipt of the notification of application by the Secretary-General.3Czechoslovakia applied Regulation No. 64 as from 18 October 1992. See also note 1 under “Czech Republic” and note 1 under “Slovakia” in the “Historical Information” section in the front matter of this volume.4In a letter dated 29 July 1998, the European Community informed the Secretary-General of the following:"The accession of the EC has the effect that the [...] regulations adhered to are not (in cases where a Member State already applied a regulation: no longer) applied by Member States by virtue of their status as Contracting Parties to the Agreement but exclusively in their capacity as Member States of the Contracting Party European Community. Thus, the 14 Member States already Contracting Parties themselves, now apply all [these] regulations by virtue of the EC's accession."... By the EC accession, Ireland has not become a Contracting Party. Only the EC has become a Contracting Party. Ireland being a Member State of this Contracting Party applies the [...] regulations [adhered to by the EC] by virtue of the EC's accession.It will be recalled that, as at 29 July 1999, States Members of the EC are: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.5Contracting State having proposed the Regulation and date of entry into force of the Regulation for that State in accordance with article 1 (3).