Contracting Parties under UN R99 Gas-discharge Light Sources

The following Contracting Parties are officially listed by the World Forum as applying this regulation. Nonetheless, this designation does not necessarily mean that a given Contracting Party either issues its own type approvals or accepts type approvals issued by other parties as there are exceptions.

Contracting Party Effective Date
Switzerland 12 February 2011
Germany 15 April 1996
France 24 June 1997
Italy 24 March 1998
Sweden 02 August 1997
Netherlands 15 April 1996
Belgium 03 November 1997
Hungary 07 September 1997
Czech Republic 01 July 1997
Spain 24 March 1998
Serbia 18 May 2008
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 12 May 1997
Austria 24 March 1998
Luxembourg 23 May 1997
Norway 07 March 1999
Finland 24 November 1997
Denmark 24 March 1998
Romania 05 September 1998
Poland 01 May 2004
Portugal 24 March 1998
Russian Federation 30 June 1998
Greece 24 March 1998
Ireland 24 March 1998
Croatia 03 April 2001
Slovenia 10 October 2000
Slovak Republic 14 January 1997
Estonia 25 July 1999
Latvia 18 January 1999
Bulgaria 01 January 2007
Lithuania 29 March 2002
Turkey 14 March 2001
North Macedonia 19 August 2002
European Union 24 March 1998
Australia 31 July 2010
Republic of South Africa 17 June 2001
Cyprus 01 May 2004
Malta 01 May 2004
Malaysia 04 April 2006
Albania 05 November 2011
Japan 21 July 2015
Egypt 03 February 2013
Republic of Moldova 20 November 2016
San Marino 26 January 2016
Georgia 25 May 2015
Belarus 11 February 2013
Nigeria 17 December 2018
Republic of Armenia 30 April 2018
Philippines 03 November 2022
Republic of Uganda 23 August 2022
Kyrgyz Republic 31 October 2023
Socialist Republic of Viet Nam 24 September 2023
Islamic Republic of Pakistan 24 April 2020