Contracting Parties under UN R3 Retro-reflecting Devices

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
Germany 28 January 1966
France 01 November 1963
Italy 21 June 1964
Netherlands 11 March 1966
Sweden 30 August 1966
Belgium 20 September 1969
Hungary 09 May 1965
Czech Republic 16 February 1964
Spain 26 February 1966
Serbia 27 April 1992
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 01 November 1963
Austria 30 April 1972
Luxembourg 04 October 1987
Switzerland 02 February 1996
Norway 21 February 1988
Finland 17 September 1976
Denmark 20 December 1976
Romania 21 February 1977
Poland 01 August 1983
Portugal 24 March 1998
Russian Federation 17 February 1987
Greece 03 December 1995
Ireland 24 March 1998
Croatia 08 October 1991
Slovenia 25 July 1969
Slovak Republic 16 February 1964
Belarus 02 July 1995
Estonia 25 July 1999
Bosnia and Herzegovina 06 March 1992
Latvia 18 January 1999
Bulgaria 01 January 2007
Lithuania 29 March 2002
Turkey 07 July 2000
North Macedonia 17 September 1991
European Union 24 March 1998
Japan 24 November 1998
Australia 31 July 2010
Ukraine 08 October 2002
Republic of South Africa 17 June 2001
Cyprus 01 May 2004
Malta 01 May 2004
New Zealand 19 March 2002
Malaysia 04 April 2006
Montenegro 03 June 2006
Albania 05 November 2011
Georgia 25 May 2015
Egypt 03 February 2013
Republic of Moldova 20 November 2016
San Marino 26 January 2016
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