Article 3. Obligations of the Contracting Parties
1. (a) Contracting Parties shall take appropriate measures to ensure
that the rules of the road in force in their territories conform in substance to
the provisions of Chapter II
of this Convention. Provided that the said rules are in no way incompatible with
the said provisions:
(i)
The said rules need not reproduce any of the said provisions which are applicable
to situations that do not arise in the territories of the
Contracting Parties in question;
(ii)
The said rules may include provisions not contained in the said
Chapter II.
(b) The provisions of this paragraph do not
require Contracting Parties to provide penalties for any violation of those provisions
of Chapter II which are
reproduced in their rules of the road.
2. (a) Contracting Parties shall also take appropriate measures
to ensure that the rules in force in their territories concerning the technical
requirements to be satisfied by motor vehicles and trailers conform to the provisions
of
Annex 5 to this Convention; provided that they are in no way contrary to
the safety principles governing the provisions of
Annex 5, the said rules may contain provisions not contained in
Annex 5. Contracting Parties shall also take appropriate measures to
ensure that motor vehicles and trailers registered in their territories conform
to the provisions of
Annex 5 to this Convention when entering international traffic.
(b) The provisions of this paragraph do not
impose any obligations on the Contracting Parties with respect to the rules in force
in their territories concerning the technical requirements to be satisfied by power-driven
vehicles which are not motor vehicles within the meaning of this Convention.
3. Subject to the exceptions provided for in Annex 1 to this Convention,
Contracting Parties shall be bound to admit to their territories in international
traffic motor vehicles and trailers which fulfil the conditions laid down in
Chapter III of this Convention and whose drivers fulfil the conditions laid
down in Chapter IV;
they shall also be bound to recognize registration certificates issued in accordance
with the provisions of
Chapter III as prima facie evidence that the vehicles to which they refer
fulfil the conditions laid down in the said
Chapter III.
4. Measures which the Contracting Parties have taken or may take,
either unilaterally or under bilateral or multilateral agreements, to admit to their
territories in international traffic motor vehicles and trailers that do not satisfy
all the conditions stated in
Chapter III of this Convention and to recognize, in cases other than those
specified in Chapter IV,
the validity in their territories of driving permits issued in the territory of
another Contracting Party shall be deemed to be in conformity with the object of
this Convention.
5. Contracting Parties shall be bound to admit to their territories
in international traffic cycles and mopeds which fulfil the technical conditions
laid down in
Chapter V of this Convention and whose drivers have their normal residence
in the territory of another Contracting Party. No Contracting Party shall require
the drivers of cycles or mopeds in international traffic to hold a driving permit;
however, Contracting Parties which have declared in conformity with
Article 54, paragraph 2, of this Convention that they treat mopeds as motorcycles
may require the drivers of mopeds in international traffic to hold a driving permit.
5 bis. Contracting Parties will take the necessary measures to
ensure that road safety education be provided on a systematic and continuous basis,
particularly in schools at all levels.
5 ter. Whenever driving instruction for learner drivers is provided
by professional driving establishments, domestic legislation shall lay down minimum
requirements concerning the curriculum and the qualifications of the personnel responsible
for providing such instruction.
6. Contracting Parties undertake to communicate to any Contracting
Party, which may so request, the information necessary to ascertain the identity
of the person in whose name a powerdriven vehicle, or a trailer coupled to such
a vehicle, is registered in their territories if the request submitted shows that
the vehicle has been involved in an accident or the driver of this vehicle has seriously
infringed road traffic rules and is thereby liable to important penalties or disqualification
from driving in the territory of the Contracting Party submitting the request.
7. Measures which the Contracting Parties have taken or may take
either unilaterally or under bilateral or multilateral agreements to facilitate
international road traffic by simplifying Customs, police, health and other similar
formalities or to ensure that Customs offices and posts at a given frontier point
have the same competence and are kept open during the same hours shall be deemed
to be in conformity with the object of this Convention.
8. Nothing in paragraphs 3, 5 and 7 of this Article shall affect
the right of a Contracting Party to make the admission to its territory in international
traffic of motor vehicles, trailers, mopeds and cycles, and of their drivers and
occupants, subject to its regulations concerning the commercial carriage of passengers
and goods, to its regulations concerning insurance of drivers against thirdparty
risks, to its Customs regulations and, in general, to its regulations on matters
other than road traffic.
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