Contracting Parties under UN R79 Steering Equipment

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 09 February 1992
France 01 December 1988
Italy 03 July 1989
Austria 24 March 1998
European Union 24 March 1998
Belarus 02 July 1995
Belgium 07 August 1990
Bulgaria 01 January 2007
Croatia 03 April 2001
Cyprus 01 May 2004
Czech Republic 09 June 1991
Denmark 24 March 1998
Estonia 25 July 1999
Finland 12 April 1991
Russian Federation 08 April 1996
Poland 22 July 2000
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 01 December 1988
North Macedonia 19 August 2002
Greece 03 December 1995
Hungary 06 January 1991
Ireland 24 March 1998
Latvia 18 January 1999
Lithuania 29 March 2002
Ukraine 08 October 2002
Luxembourg 28 August 1990
Malaysia 04 April 2006
Turkey 07 July 2000
Netherlands 04 July 1992

The Netherlands accepts these vehicles only when they have met the requirements of Regulation No. 79, as amended by Supplement 2.

Switzerland 02 February 1996
Malta 01 May 2004
Norway 24 May 1993
Serbia 18 May 2008
Sweden 16 August 1993
Portugal 24 March 1998
Romania 24 September 1994
Slovak Republic 09 June 1991
Slovenia 15 July 1996
Spain 24 March 1998
Albania 05 November 2011
Japan 16 August 2014
Egypt 03 February 2013
Republic of Moldova 20 November 2016
San Marino 26 January 2016
Georgia 25 May 2015
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