CHAPTER XI
TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATIONS
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Road Traffic1641United Nations Regulation No. 41. Uniform provisions concerning the approval of motor cycles with regard to noise1 June 19801 June 1980, in accordance with article 1(5).1 June 1980, No. 4789Parties37United Nations, <i>Treaty Series </i>, vol. 1181, p. 303; and doc. E/ECE/324-E/ECE/ TRANS/505/Rev.1/Add.40/Amend.1 and vol. 1364, p. 371 (amendments series 01); vol. 1774, p. 534 and doc. TRANS/SC1/WP29/380 (amendments series 02); and depositary notification C.N.701.1999.TREATIES-1 of 5 August 1999 and doc. TRANS/WP/29/683 (amendments series 03); C.N.297.2006.TREATIES-1 of 10 April 2006 and doc. ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2006/3 (supplement 1 to amendments series 03) and C.N.868.2006.TREATIES-2 of 25 October 2006 (adoption)C.N.558.2008.TREATIES-1 of 7 August 2008 and doc. ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2008/67 (modifications); C.N.664.2011.TREATIES-1 of 13 October 2011 (proposal of amendments) and C.N.190.2012.TREATIES-XI.B.16.41 of 14 April 2012 (adoption); C.N.165.2014.TREATIES-XI.B.16.41 of 9 April 2014 (proposal of amendments) and C.N.680.2014.TREATIES-XI.B.16.41 of 15 October 2014 (adoption); C.N.228.2015.TREATIES-XI.B.16.41 of 8 April 2015 (proposal of amendments) and C.N.571.2015.TREATIES-XI.B.16.41 of 2 November 2015 (adoption); C.N.394.2015.TREATIES-XI-B-16-41 of 20 July 2015 (proposal of amendments) and C.N.23.2016.TREATIES-XI-B-16-41 of 3 February 2016 (adoption); C.N.132.2016.TREATIES-XI-B-16-41 of 8 April 2016 (proposal of amendments) and C.N.770.2016.TREATIES-XI-B-16-41 of 27 October 2016 (adoption); C.N.525.2016.TREATIES-XI.B.16.41 of 9 August 2016 (proposal of amendments) and C.N.76.2017.TREATIES-XI.B.16.41 of of 17 February 2017(adoption); C.N.501.2018.TREATIES-XI-B-16-41 of 29 October 2018(Amendments); C.N.522.2019.TREATIES-XI.B.16.41 of 31 October 2019 (Amendments); C.N.22.2021.TREATIES-XI.B.16.41 of 27 January 2021 (Amendments); C.N.312.2021.TREATIES-XI.B.16.41 of 29 October 2021 (Amendments); C.N.313.2021.TREATIES-XI.B.16.41 of 29 October 2021 (Amendments); C.N.7.2022.TREATIES-XI.B.16.41 of 14 January 2022 (Amendments); C.N.8.2022.TREATIES-XI.B.16.41 of 14 January 2022 (Amendments); C.N.7.2024.TREATIES-XI.B.16.41 of 15 January 2024 (amendments).<superscript>1</superscript>
Contracting Parties applying Regulation No. 41<superscript>2</superscript>ParticipantApplication of regulation, Succession(d)Armenia 1 Mar 2018 Australia 1 Jun 2010 Belarus 3 May 1995 Belgium17 Aug 1982 Bosnia and Herzegovina<superscript>3</superscript>28 Sep 1998 dCroatia<superscript>3</superscript>17 Mar 1994 dCzech Republic<superscript>4</superscript> 2 Jun 1993 dEgypt 5 Dec 2012 European Union 6 May 2014 Finland 6 May 1988 Germany<superscript>5</superscript>14 Jan 1991 Greece21 Aug 1996 Hungary26 Jan 1984 Italy<superscript>6</superscript> 1 Jun 1980 Japan 3 Dec 2012 Lithuania28 Jan 2002 Luxembourg 2 Mar 1984 Malaysia 3 Feb 2006 Montenegro<superscript>7</superscript>23 Oct 2006 dNetherlands (Kingdom of the) 2 Mar 2004 Nigeria18 Oct 2018 North Macedonia<superscript>3</superscript> 1 Apr 1998 dNorway25 Mar 1993 Pakistan24 Feb 2020 Philippines 3 Nov 2022 Poland14 Sep 1992 Republic of Moldova21 Sep 2016 Romania26 Jul 1994 Russian Federation19 Dec 1986 San Marino27 Nov 2015 Serbia<superscript>3</superscript>12 Mar 2001 dSlovakia<superscript>4</superscript>28 May 1993 dSlovenia<superscript>3</superscript> 3 Nov 1992 dSpain<superscript>6</superscript> 1 Jun 1980 Türkiye 8 May 2000 Uganda23 Aug 2022 Ukraine 9 Aug 2002
1 For additional references to the texts of the annexed regulations and their amendments, see doc. <a href="http://www.unece.org/trans/main/wp29/wp29wgs/wp29gen/wp29fdocstts.html" target = "_ blank">TRANS/WP.29/343</a> 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.3The former Yugoslavia applied Regulation No. 41 as from 31 January 1985. See also note 1 under “Bosnia and Herzegovina”, “Croatia”, “former Yugoslavia”, “Slovenia”, “The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia” and “Yugoslavia” in the “Historical Information” section in the front matter of this volume.4Czechoslovakia applied Regulation No. 41 as from 1 August 1980. See also note 1 under “Czech Republic” and note 1 under “Slovakia” in the “Historical Information” section in the front matter of this volume.5The German Democratic Republic applied Regulation No. 41 as from 28 June 1981.With regard to the above, the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany in a communication received on 14 January 1991, informed the Secretary-General of the following:- [Regulation No. 41 which had] so far been applied only by the German Democratic Republic shall be applied by the Federal Republic of Germany as from 3 October 1990, the date when the German Democratic Republic acceded to the Federal Republic of Germany...The notification further states that it “. . . does not constitute a general statement of position by the Federal Republic of Germany on the question of state succession in relation to treaties.”See also note 2 under “Germany” in the “Historical Information” section in the front matter of this volume.6Contracting State having proposed the Regulation and date of entry into force of the Regulation for that State in accordance with article 1 (3).7See note 1 under "Montenegro" in the "Historical Information" section in the front matter of this volume.