CHAPTER XI
TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATIONS
B
Road Traffic169United Nations Regulation No. 9. Uniform provisions concerning the approval of category L2, L4 and L5 vehicles with regard to sound emission.1 March 19691 March 1969, in accordance with article 1(5).1 March 1969, No. 4789Parties34United Nations, <i>Treaty Series </i>, vol. 659, p. 342; vol. 917, p. 303 (amendments series 01 only) and doc. E/ECE/324-E/ECE/TRANS/505/Add.8/Rev.1 (revised text incorporating amendments series 01); Amend.1 and vol. 1181, p. 323 (amendments series 02); Amend.2 (amendments series 03), and Amend.3 and vol. 1363, p. 256 (amendments series 04); vol. 1763, p. 283 and doc. TRANS/SC1/WP29/355 (amendments series 05); C.N.370.1998.TREATIES-90 of 8 September 1998 and doc.TRANS/WP.29/611 (amendment series 06) and C.N.152.1999.TREATIES-1 of 4 March 1999 (adoption); C.N.706.1999.TREATIES-1 of 6 August 1999 (modifications); C.N.289.2006.TREATIES-1 of 10 April 2006 and doc. ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2006/2 (supplement 1 to amendments series 06) and C.N.862.2006.TREATIES-2 of 25 October 2006 (adoption); C.N.227.2013.TREATIES-XI.B.16.9 of 3 May 2013 (proposal of amendments) and C.N.938.2013.TREATIES-XI.B.16.9 of 21 November 2013 (proposal of amendments); C.N.389.2015.TREATIES-XI-B-16-9 of 20 July 2015 (proposal of amendments) and C.N.17.2016.Reissued.10012017.TREATIES-XI-B-16-9 of 3 February 2016 (adoption); C.N.516.2016.TREATIES-XI.B.16.9 of 9 August 2016 (proposal of amendments) and C.N.68.2017.TREATIES-XI.B.16.9 of 17 February 2017 (adoption); C.N.172.2017.TREATIES-XI.B.16.9 of 10 April 2017 (Proposal of Amendments) and CN.642.2017.TREATIES-XI.B.16.9 of 20 October 2017 (adoption); C.N.514.2019.TREATIES-XI.B.16.9 of 31 October 2019 (Amendments); C.N.464.2020.TREATIES-XI.B.16.9 of 27 October 2020 (Amendments); C.N.329.2022.TREATIES-XI.B.16.9 of 19 October 2022 (Amendments).<superscript>1</superscript>
Contracting Parties applying Regulation No. 9<superscript>2</superscript>ParticipantApplication of regulation, Succession(d)Albania 6 Sep 2011 Armenia 1 Mar 2018 Belarus 3 May 1995 Belgium12 Aug 1976 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 Union10 Dec 2020 Finland15 Dec 1977 France11 Mar 2020 Hungary19 Aug 1976 Italy 1 Mar 1969 Kyrgyzstan 1 Sep 2023 Lithuania28 Jan 2002 Luxembourg 2 Aug 1983 Malaysia 3 Feb 2006 Montenegro<superscript>5</superscript>23 Oct 2006 dNigeria18 Oct 2018 North Macedonia<superscript>3</superscript> 1 Apr 1998 dPakistan24 Feb 2020 Philippines 3 Nov 2022 Poland 2 Jun 1983 Republic of Moldova21 Sep 2016 Romania23 Dec 1976 Russian Federation 8 Feb 1996 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 dSpain22 Dec 1970 Türkiye 8 May 2000 Uganda20 Mar 2023 Ukraine 9 Aug 2002
1For 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, one of the Contracting States having proposed the Regulation, applied Regulation No. 9 as from 1 March 1969 in accordance with article 1 (3). 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. 9 as from 1 March 1969. See also note 1 under “Czech Republic” and note 1 under “Slovakia” in the “Historical Information” section in the front matter of this volume.5See note 1 under "Montenegro" in the "Historical Information" section in the front matter of this volume.