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16.33. Regulation No. 33. Uniform provisions concerning the approval of vehicles with regard to the behaviour of the structure of the impacted vehicle in a head-on collision

1 July 1975

 

Entry into force: 1 July 1975, in accordance with article 1 (5).
Registration: 1 July 1975, No. 4789.
Status: ,Parties: 19.
Text: United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 973, p. 258 and doc. E/ECE/324-E/ECE/TRANS/505/Rev.1/Add.32 and Corr.1. (English only), Corr.2 (French only) and Corr. 3 (Russian only); and depositary notification C.N.368.1999.TREATIES-1 of 17 May 1999 and doc. TRANS/WP/29/647 (supplement 1 to the orignal); C.N.1171.2006.TREATIES-1 of 11 December 2006 and doc. ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2006/117 (supplement 2 to the original) and C.N.689.2007.TREATIES-1 of 6 July 2007 (adoption).1 
 

 

PARTICIPANTS


Contracting Parties applying Regulation No. 332

Participant3  Application of regulation 
Belarus  3 May 1995 
Belgium  17 Aug 1982 
Czech Republic4  2 Jun 1993 
Denmark  19 Sep 1979 
Finland  15 Dec 1977 
France  12 Jul 1978 
Hungary  9 Jul 1997 
Italy  2 Sep 1976 
Lithuania  28 Jan 2002 
Luxembourg  2 Aug 1985 
Netherlands  22 Apr 1985 
Norway  23 Dec 1987 
Poland  2 Oct 2001 
Romania  6 Apr 1981 
Russian Federation  [19 Dec 1986] 
Slovakia4  28 May 1993 
Sweden5  1 Jul 1975 
Switzerland  4 Dec 1995 
Turkey  8 May 2000 
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland  1 Jul 1975 
 

 

NOTES


1. For additional references to the texts of the annexed regulations and their amendments, see doc. TRANS/WP.29/343 as up-dated annually.


2. For 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.


3. The German Democratic Republic applied Regulation No. 33 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, inter alia, of the following:

- [Regulation No. 33 which was] applied by the German Democratic Republic but not by the Federal Republic of Germany [is] not to be applied in the future...

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.


4. Czechoslovakia applied Regulation No. 33 as from 17 September 1976. See also note 1 under "Czech Republic" and note 1 under "Slovakia" in the "Historical Information" section in the front matter of this volume.


5. Contracting State having proposed the Regulation and date of entry into force of the Regulation for that State in accordance with article 1 (3).