Contracting Parties under UN R6 Direction Indicators

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 15 October 1967
France 15 October 1967
Italy 12 April 1968
Netherlands 15 October 1967
Sweden 06 July 1971
Belgium 15 October 1967
Hungary 18 October 1976
Czech Republic 17 June 1969
Spain 20 February 1971
Serbia 27 April 1992
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 15 October 1967
Austria 30 April 1972
Luxembourg 04 October 1987
Switzerland 02 February 1996
Norway 21 February 1988
Finland 14 May 1977
Denmark 18 November 1979
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 21 January 2000
Lithuania 29 March 2002
Turkey 07 July 2000
North Macedonia 17 September 1991
European Union 24 March 1998
Japan 31 March 2000
Australia 31 July 2010
Ukraine 08 October 2002
Republic of South Africa 17 June 2001
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
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