CHAPTER XI
TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATIONS
B
Road Traffic
9Agreement on Signs for Road Works, amending the European Agreement of 16 September 1950 supplementing the 1949 Convention on Road Traffic and the 1949 Protocol on Road Signs and Signals<superscript>1</superscript>Geneva, 16 December 1955see article 2 which reads as follows : "This Agreement shall be open until 16 January 1956 for signature and thereafter for accession by the Contracting Parties to the European Agreement of 16 September 1950, supplementing the Convention on Road Traffic and the Protocol on Road Signs and Signals of 19 September 1949 and shall enter into force when all these Contracting Parties have signed it and ratified it if necessary, or have acceded to it.".Signatories5Parties13<a href="/doc/source/docs/E_ECE_223-E.pdf" target="_blank">Doc.E/ECE/223 (E/ECE/TRANS/481), 1956<a/>.
ParticipantSignatureAccession(a), Succession(d), Ratification, Definitive signature(s)Austria16 Dec 1955 Belgium16 Dec 1955 28 May 1956 France16 Dec 1955 sGreece16 Dec 1955 Holy See 1 Oct 1956 aHungary30 Jul 1962 aItaly12 Feb 1958 aLuxembourg16 Dec 1955 3 Jun 1957 Montenegro<superscript>2</superscript>23 Oct 2006 dNetherlands (Kingdom of the)<superscript>3</superscript>16 Dec 1955 31 Jan 1958 Poland29 Oct 1958 aSerbia<superscript>4</superscript>12 Mar 2001 dSlovenia<superscript>4</superscript> 6 Jul 1992 dSpain 9 Jun 1960 aUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland16 May 1966 a
1For the Agreement of 16 September 1950, see chapter XI.B-4.2See note 1 under "Montenegro" in the "Historical Information" section in the front matter of this volume.3For the Kingdom in Europe.4The former Yugoslavia had signed and ratified the Agreement on 16 December 1955 and 19 March 1957, respectively. 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.