Convention on the Taxation of Road Vehicles for Private Use in International Traffic

Done at Geneva on 18 May 1956

ENTRY INTO FORCE: 18 August 1959, in accordance with article 6.

REGISTRATION: 18 August 1959, No. 4844.

TEXT: United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 339, p. 3.

STATUS: Signatories: 9. Parties: 22.

Participant


Signature	Definitive signature (s), ratification, accession (a), succession (d)

Australia 3 May 1961 a

Austria 18 May 1956 12 Nov 1958

Belgium 18 May 1956

Bosnia and Herzegovina 12 Jan 1994 d

Cambodia 22 Sep 1959 a

Czech Republic1 2 Jun 1993 d

Denmark 9 Feb 1968 a

Finland 18 May 1956 s

France 18 May 1956 20 May 1959

Germany2, 3 7 Jul 1961 a

Ghana 18 Aug 1959 a

Ireland 31 May 1962 a

Luxembourg 18 May 1956 28 May 1965

Malta 22 Nov 1966 a

Netherlands 18 May 1956 20 Apr 1959

Norway 9 Jul 1965 a

Poland 18 May 1956 4 Sep 1969

Republic of Moldova 26 May 1993 a

Romania 10 Jul 1967 a

Slovakia1 28 May 1993 d

Sweden 18 May 1956 16 Jan 1958

United Kingdom 18 May 1956 15 Jan 1963

Yugoslavia 18 May 1956 8 Apr 1960

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

CZECH REPUBLIC 1

poland 4

romania

The Socialist Republic of Romania does not consider itself bound by the provisions of article 10, paragraphs 2 and 3, of the Convention, its position being that a dispute concerning the interpretation or application of the Convention cannot be submitted to arbitration without the consent of all the parties in dispute.

The Council of State of the Socialist Republic of Romania believes that the maintenance of the state of dependence of certain territories to which the regulations of article 9 of the Convention refer is not in harmony with the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 14 December 1960 in resolution 1514 (XV), in which the necessity of bringing to a speedy and unconditional end colonialism in all its forms and manifestations is proclaimed.

SLOVAKIAc

Territorial Application

Participant


Date of receipt of the notification	Territories
Australia	3 May 1961	Papua and Trust Territory of New Guinea
Netherlandsc	20 Apr 1959	Surinam, Netherlands Antilles, Netherlands New Guinea
United Kingdom	15 Jan 1963	Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney and the Isle of Man
	6 Jun 1963	Falkland Islands and Gilbraltar
	18 Jul 1963	Seychelles and Virgin Islands
	26 Jul 1963	St. Lucia and Montserrat
	8 Nov 1963	St. Vincent, Brunei, Zanzibar and British Guiana
	6 May 1964	Mauritius

NOTES:

1 Czechoslovakia had acceded to the Convention on 2 July 1962, with a declaration. For the text of the declaration, see United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 431, p. 316. See also note in chapter I.2.

2 See note in chapter I.2.

3 In a note accompanying the instrument of accession, the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany stated that the Convention "will also apply to Land Berlin as from the date on which the Convention enters 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, the Byelorussian SSR, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, 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. See also note cc above.

4 On 16 October 1997, the Government of Poland notified the Secretary-General that it had decided to withdraw its reservation with regard to article 10, paragraphs 2 and 3 of the Convention made upon ratification. For the text of the reservation see United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 689, p. 362.

c See note in chapter I.1.