Contracting Parties under UN R4 Rear Plate Lighting

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 06 July 1964
Italy 15 April 1964
Netherlands 10 January 1971
Sweden 06 July 1971
Belgium 15 April 1964
Hungary 09 May 1965
Czech Republic 17 June 1969
Spain 26 February 1966
Serbia 27 April 1992
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 25 September 1967
Austria 30 April 1972
Luxembourg 04 October 1987
Switzerland 02 February 1996
Norway 21 February 1988
Finland 14 May 1977
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 17 June 1969
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
Australia 31 July 2010
Ukraine 08 October 2002
New Zealand 19 March 2002
Cyprus 01 May 2004
Malta 01 May 2004
Malaysia 04 April 2006
Montenegro 03 June 2006
Albania 05 November 2011
Japan 21 July 2015
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