EC accession to the Agreement of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe: uniform technical prescriptions for wheeled vehicles, equipment and parts which can be fitted to and/or be used on wheeled vehicles and the conditions for reciprocal recognition of approvals granted on the basis of these prescriptions ('Revised 1958 Agreement')

OBJECTIVE: accession by the Community to the Revised 1958 Agreement of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe concerning technical prescriptions for motor vehicle equipment and components.

COMMUNITY MEASURE: Council Decision 97/836/EC.

SUBSTANCE: the Council decided that the European Community would accede to the Revised 1958 Agreement of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UN/ECE). The Agreement concerns the adoption of uniform conditions for the approval and mutual recognition of the approval of motor vehicle equipment and components. The Community's accession to the Agreement is deemed essential in order to enhance the Agreement's status and make it the worldwide focus for technical harmonization in the field of motor vehicles, as well as to ensure consistency between the law-making work of the UN ECE and that at Community level. The participation of the Community will enhance the importance of the harmonization work carried out under the Agreement, and could therefore facilitate access to third-country markets.