Customs Convention on the Temporary Importation of Commercial Road Vehicles

Done at Geneva on 18 May 1956

ENTRY INTO FORCE: 8 April 1959, in accordance with article 34.

REGISTRATION: 8 April 1959, No. 4721.

TEXT: United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 327, p. 123; vol. 1314, p. 277 (amendment); and depositary notification C.N.316.1991.TREATIES 1 of 30 January 1992 (amendments to English and French authentic texts).c

STATUS: Signatories: 12. Parties: 36.

Participant


Signature	Ratification, accession (a), succession (d)

Afghanistan 19 Dec 1977 a

Algeria 31 Oct 1963 a

Austria 18 May 1956 13 Nov 1957

Belgium 18 May 1956 18 Feb 1963

Bosnia and Herzegovina 12 Jan 1994 d

Bulgaria 7 Oct 1959 a

Cambodia 8 Apr 1959 a

China2

Croatia 31 Aug 1994 d

Cuba 16 Sep 1965 a

Cyprus 2 Feb 1983 d

Denmark 8 Jan 1959 a

European Communityc 1 Feb 1996 a

Finland 23 May 1967 a

France 18 May 1956 20 May 1959

Germanycc, 5 18 May 1956 23 Oct 1961

Greece 12 Sep 1961 a

Hungary 18 May 1956 23 Jul 1957

Ireland 26 Jul 1967 a

Italy 18 May 1956 29 Mar 1962

Kyrgyzstan 2 Apr 1998 a

Liechtenstein6 7 Jul 1960

Luxembourg 18 May 1956 28 Jan 1964

Netherlands 7 18 May 1956 27 Jul 1960

Norway 11 Jul 1966 a

Poland 18 May 1956 6 May 1959

Portugal 8 May 1967 a

Romania 7 Jan 1966 a

Sierra Leone 13 Mar 1962 d

Singapore 15 Aug 1966 d

Slovenia 3 Nov 1992 d

Spain 17 Nov 1958 a

Sweden 18 May 1956 16 Jan 1958

Switzerlandcc 18 May 1956 7 Jul 1960

United Kingdom 18 May 1956 30 Jul 1959

Uzbekistan 11 Jan 1999 a

Yugoslavia 12 Jun 1961 a

Declarations and Reservations
(Unless otherwise indicated, the declarations and reservations were made
upon ratification, accession or succession.)

Algeria

The Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria does not consider itself bound by the provisions of article 38 of the said Convention relating to the compulsory arbitration of the International Court of Justice.

bulgariac

polandc

romania

The Socialist Republic of Romania does not consider itself bound by the provisions of article 38, paragraphs 2 and 3 of the Convention, its position being that a dispute concerning the interpretation or application of the Convention can be submitted to arbitration only with the consent of all the Parties to the dispute.

Territorial Application

Participant


Date of receipt of the notification	Territories
United Kingdom 2	30 Jul 1959	The Isle of Man, Jersey and the Bailiwick of Guernsey
	6 Nov 1959	Gibraltar, Brunei, Somaliland, North Borneo, Seychelles and Singapore
	29 Apr 1960	Cyprus, Gambia
	12 Sep 1960	Sierra Leone
	21 Sep 1960	Hong Kong
	19 Jul 1962	Kenya, Uganda

NOTES:

c The Secretary-General circulated on 6 April 1979 the text of an amendment proposed by Switzerland aiming at the addition of a new article 25bis to chapter VII of the Convention. The said amendment was not accepted owing to objections notified to the Secretary-General on 4 October 1979 (Belgium, Denmark, France, Federal Republic of Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands).

Subsequently, a further proposed amendment by Switzerland to chapter VII of the Convention by the addition of a new article 25bis was circulated by the Secretary-General on 26 August 1982. Within the period of six months following the date of its circulation, no Contracting Party expressed an objection to the proposed amendment and therefore, in accordance with paragraph 2 of article 41 of the Convention it is deemed accepted.

On 30 January 1992, the Secretary-General circulated the text of the amendments to the English and French authentic texts proposed by the Government of Italy. Within a period of six months from the date of its circulation (i.e. 30 January 1992), none of the Contracting Parties to the Convention expressed an objection to the proposed amendment. Therefore, in accordance with the provisions of article 41 (2) and (3) of the Convention, the proposed amendment was deemed accepted and will entered into force for all Contracting Parties three months after the expiry of the said period of six months, i.e., on 30 October 1992.

cc On 6 and 10 June 1997, respectively, the Governments of China and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland notified the Secretary-General of the following:

China:

[Same notification as the one made under note in chapter V.3.]

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland:

[Same notification as the one made under note in chapter IV.1.]

3 The instrument contained a notification by which the European Community accepts the resolution of the United Nations of 2 July 1993 on the applicability of carnets de passage en duane and CPD carnets to private road vehicles.

4 See note in chapter I.2.

5 In a communication received by the Secretary-General on 30 November 1961, the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany stated that the Convention "will also apply to Land Berlin, as of the date of its entry into force for the Federal Republic of Germany".

With reference to the above-mentioned statement, communications have been addressed to the Secretary-General by the Governments of Albania, Bulgaria, the Byelorussian SSR, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, on the one hand, and by the Governments of the Federal Republic of Germany, France, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America, on the other hand. The said communications are identical in essence, mutatis mutandis to the corresponding ones referred to in note in chapter III.3.

Subsequently, in a communication received by the Secretary-General on 3 October 1990, the Government of Hungary indicated that, the German State having achieved its unity on this day (3 October 1990, it had decided to withdraw, as from that date, the declaration it had made with respect to the notification of extension by the Federal Republic of Germany to Land Berlin.

c On depositing the instrument of ratification, the Government of Switzerland declared that the provisions of the Convention will apply to the Principality of Liechtenstein so long as it is linked to Switzerland by a customs union treaty.

c For the Kingdom of Europe.

8 In a notification received on 6 May 1994, the Government of Bulgaria notified the Secretary-General that it had decided to withdraw the reservation made upon accession with regard to article 38 (2) and (3). For the text of the reservation, see United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 342, p. 362.

c On 16 October 1997, the Government of Poland notified the Secretary-General that it had decided to withdraw its reservation with regard to article 38 of the Convention made upon ratification. For the text of the reservation see United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 328, p. 344.