Contracting Parties under UN R18 Unauthorized Vehicle Use

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 27 March 1973
France 01 March 1971
Italy 17 September 1975
Netherlands 01 March 1971
Sweden 15 August 1974
Belgium 01 March 1971
Hungary 18 October 1976
Czech Republic 14 April 1972
Spain 27 July 1971
Serbia 27 April 1992
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 03 April 1972
Austria 24 March 1998
Luxembourg 01 October 1983
Norway 21 February 1988
Finland 15 February 1978
Denmark 20 December 1976
Romania 21 February 1977
Poland 01 December 2001
Portugal 24 March 1998
Russian Federation 17 February 1987
Greece 03 December 1995
Ireland 24 March 1998
Croatia 08 October 1991
Slovenia 01 May 1985
Slovak Republic 14 April 1972
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
Ukraine 08 October 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