UNECE Legal Instruments on Transport

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Release date

Jul 02, 2004 

Published date

2004 

Description

A website containing up-to-date information and lists of signatory parties for 55 international conventions managed by UNECE. The conventions are grouped in the areas of Border crossing facilitation, Transport infrastructures, Road traffic and road signs and signals, Road vehicles, Other Legal Instruments related to Road Transport, Inland Water Transport, Transport of Dangerous goods, Transport of perishable foodstuffs.

Since its creation in 1947, UNECE Inland Transport Committee, has been a framework for intergovernmental cooperation and concerted action in order to facilitate international transport while improving its safety and environmental performance.  The main results of the quiet, unspectacular but persevering and useful work of the UNECE member Governments, acting together for almost five decades now within the framework of the Committee, are reflected in 55 international agreements and conventions which provide the international legal and technical framework for the development of international road, rail, inland waterway and combined transport in the UNECE region. These international legal instruments, some of which are applied also by countries outside the UNECE region, address a wide array of transport issues which fall under the responsibility of Governments and which have an impact on international transport. This includes coherent international infrastructure networks, uniform and simplified border-crossing procedures and uniform rules and regulations aimed at ensuring a high level of efficiency, safety and environmental protection in transport.  These agreements and conventions, a large number of which are kept constantly updated, are legally binding for the States who become Contracting Parties to them.

click on this link: UNECE International Agreements and Conventions in the field of Transport

 

Type

Laws , Reference Documents , Reference Reading Tools  

Copyright Status

Copyrighted 

Relevance Degree

International legal instrument 

Topics

Air Transport and Airport Operations , Bilateral and regional transit agreements , Border Agency Modernization , Control on animal and animal products , Dangerous goods , Inland Water Transport , Maritime Transport and Port Operations , Multimodal transport , Phytosanitary control , Rail Transport , Regional transport integration , Trade Logistics and Facilitation , Transit , Transit facilitation and logistics , Transit guarantee systems , Transport Operations , Vehicle standards  

Authoring partners

United Nations Economic Commission for Europe-UNECE  

Geographic coverage

Regions:
Countries:
Global: Yes