CHAPTER XI
TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATIONS
B
Road Traffic
14bProtocol amending article 1 (a), article 14 (1) and article 14 (3) (b) of the Agreement of 30 September 1957 concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road (ADR)Geneva, 28 October 1993see article 6 which reads as follows :"This Protocol shall enter into force one month after the date on which all the Contracting Parties to the Agreement have signed it without reservation of ratification, acceptance or approval or have deposited their instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession as the case may be." In accordance with Article 7 of the Protocol which reads as follows: "Any State which becomes a Party to the Agreement after the conditions of the entry into force of this Protocol according to Article 6 have been met shall be considered as a Contracting Party to the Agreement as amended by the Protocol.".1Signatories9Parties40<a href="/doc/source/docs/TRANS_WP.15_CD_6-E.pdf" target="_blank">Doc. TRANS/WP.15/CD/6 of 1 December 1993</a>.The Protocol was adopted on 28 October 1993 at Geneva by the Conference of the Contracting Parties to the 1957 European Agreement concerning the International Transport of Dangerous Goods by Road (ADR). In accordance with its article 4 (2), it was open for signature at the Office of the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Europe, in Geneva, from 28 October 1993 to 31 January 1994.
Participant<superscript>1</superscript>SignatureAcceptance(A), Accession(a), Ratification, Definitive signature(s)Albania 9 Mar 2006 aAndorra 9 Mar 2009 aAustria 8 Aug 1995 aBelgium25 Jan 1994 5 Sep 2002 Bulgaria12 May 1995 aCyprus31 Aug 2005 aCzech Republic 4 Nov 1994 aDenmark28 Oct 1993 16 Nov 1995 AEstonia25 Jun 1996 aFinland26 Jan 1994 sFrance28 Oct 1993 sGeorgia29 Dec 2021 aGermany19 Jan 1994 14 Oct 2008 Greece28 Oct 1993 21 Nov 2007 AHungary26 Jan 1994 sIreland12 Oct 2006 aItaly17 Dec 1993 11 Apr 1997 Latvia 6 Jan 1997 aLiechtenstein12 Dec 1994 aLithuania28 Jan 2002 aLuxembourg28 Oct 1993 3 Oct 1995 Malta18 Nov 2019 aNetherlands (Kingdom of the)28 Oct 1993 21 Nov 1994 ANorway28 Oct 1993 5 Dec 1995 Poland31 Jan 1994 6 Dec 1996 Portugal10 Jan 1994 sRepublic of Moldova 5 Dec 2007 aRomania22 Apr 1999 aRussian Federation27 Apr 1995 aSerbia16 Mar 2016 aSlovakia26 Jan 1994 sSlovenia21 May 1997 aSpain21 Dec 1994 aSweden27 Sep 1995 aSwitzerland17 Oct 1996 aTunisia11 Dec 2018 aTürkiye29 Feb 2016 aUkraine28 Mar 2017 aUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland17 Jun 1994 aUzbekistan24 Jan 2020 a
1In accordance with Article 7 of the Protocol, "[a]ny State which becomes a Party to the Agreement after the conditions of the entry into force of this Protocol according to Article 6 have been met shall be considered as a Contracting Party to the Agreement as amended by the Protocol."