2009. évi C. törvény

az 1980. évi 3. törvényerejű rendelettel kihirdetett Közúti Közlekedési Egyezmény módosításának kihirdetéséről1

(Az 1980. évi 3. törvényerejű rendelettel kihirdetett Közúti Közlekedési Egyezmény 49. cikk 5. (a) pontjában foglaltak szerint az Egyesült Nemzetek Főtitkára, mint az Egyezmény letéteményese a C.N.19.1992.TREATIES-1 jelű körlevelében értesítette a Szerződő Feleket, hogy az Egyezmény ECE/TRANS/89 jelű dokumentumban található módosításai 1993. szeptember 3-án nemzetközi jogi értelemben hatályba léptek.)

(Az 1980. évi 3. törvényerejű rendelettel kihirdetett Közúti Közlekedési Egyezmény 49. cikk 5. (a) pontjában foglaltak szerint az Egyesült Nemzetek Főtitkára, mint az Egyezmény letéteményese a C.N.998.2005.TREATIES-3 jelű körlevelében értesítette a Szerződő Feleket, hogy az Egyezmény TRANS/WP.1/2003/1/Rev.4 jelű dokumentumban található módosításai 2006. március 28-án nemzetközi jogi értelemben hatályba léptek.)

1. § Az Országgyűlés az 1980. évi 3. törvényerejű rendelettel kihirdetett Közúti Közlekedési Egyezmény 1993. évi és 2006. évi módosításait e törvénnyel kihirdeti.

2. § Az 1980. évi 3. törvényerejű rendelettel kihirdetett Közúti Közlekedési Egyezmény 1993. évben hatályba lépett módosításának angol nyelven hiteles szövege és annak hivatalos magyar nyelvű fordítása a következő:

„AMENDMENTS TO THE 1968 CONVENTION ON ROAD TRAFFIC

Amendments which apply to the entire text of the Convention and its annexes

1. Replace the word „weight” by „mass”.

2. Use the metric system only for mass and dimensions; distances shall be expressed in „km (miles)”.

ARTICLE 3 (Obligations of the Contracting Parties)

Insert new paragraphs 5 bis and 5 ter to read:

„5 bis. Contracting Parties will take the necessary measures to ensure that road safety education be provided on a systematic and continuous basis, particularly in schools at all levels.

5 ter. Whenever driving instruction for learner drivers is provided by professional driving establishments, domestic legislation shall lay down minimum requirements concerning the curriculum and the qualifications of the personnel responsible for providing such instruction.”

Paragraph 6

Amend to read:

„6. Contracting Parties undertake to communicate to any Contracting Party, which may so request, the information necessary to ascertain the identity of the person in whose name a power-driven vehicle, or a trailer coupled to such a vehicle, is registered in their territories if the request submitted shows that the vehicle has been involved in an accident or the driver of this vehicle has seriously infringed road traffic rules and is thereby liable to important penalties or disqualification from driving in the territory of the Contracting Party submitting the request.”

ARTICLE 4 (Signs and signals)

Subparagraph (a)

Amend to read:

„(a) All road signs, traffic light signals and road markings installed in their territory shall form a coherent system and shall be designed and placed in such a way as to be easily recognizable.”

Subparagraph (d)

Add:

„(iii) To install on pavements and verges devices or equipment which might unnecessarily obstruct the movement of pedestrians, particularly elderly or disabled persons.”

ARTICLE 7 (General rules)

Insert new paragraphs 3, 4 and 5 to read:

„3. Drivers shall show extra care in relation to the most vulnerable road-users, such as pedestrians and cyclists and in particular children, elderly persons and the disabled.

4. Drivers shall take care that their vehicles do not inconvenience road-users or the occupants of properties bordering on the road, for example, by causing noise or raising dust or smoke where they can avoid doing so.

5. The wearing of safety belts is compulsory for drivers and passengers of motor vehicles, occupying seats equipped with such belts, save where exceptions are granted by domestic legislation.”

ARTICLE 10 (Position on the carriageway)

Insert new paragraphs 6 to read:

„6. Without prejudice to the provisions of Article 11 and when an additional lane is indicated by a sign, drivers of vehicles moving slowly shall use that lane.”

ARTICLE 11 (Overtaking and movement of traffic in lines)

Amend subparagraph (c) to read:

„(c) That he can do it without endangering or interfering with the oncoming traffic making sure in particular that the lane which he will enter is free over a sufficient distance and that the relative speed of the two vehicles allows overtaking within a sufficiently short time.”

Paragraph 9 (French text only)

Replace the words „sur place” by „immédiatement”

ARTICLE 13 (Speed and distance between vehicles)

Amend to read:

„1. (text of the present paragraph 1)

2. Domestic legislation shall establish maximum speed limits for all roads. Domestic legislation shall also determine special speed limits applicable to certain categories of vehicles presenting a special danger, in particular by reason of their mass or their load. They may establish similar provisions for certain categories of drivers, in particular for new drivers.

3. The provisions set out in the first sentence of paragraph 2 may not apply to drivers of priority vehicles referred to in article 34, paragraph 2, or vehicles treated as such in domestic legislation.

3. (text of the present paragraph 2)

4. (text of the present paragraph 3)

5. (text of the present paragraph 4)

Delete paragraph 5 of the present Convention.

ARTICLE 18 (Intersections and obligation to give way)

Paragraph 7

Delete the words: „At intersections,.........”

ARTICLE 19 (Level-crossings)

Insert a paragraph (d)_ to read:

„(d) No driver shall enter a level-crossing without first ascertaining that

he may not be obliged to stop on it.”

Renumber the present paragraph (d)_ as (e).

ARTICLE 21 (Behaviour of drivers towards pedestrians)

Paragraph 1

Fort he existing text substitute:

„1. Every driver shall avoid behaviour likely to endanger pedestrians.”

Paragraph 2

Renumber the present paragraph 1_ as 2 and amend the text of its subparagraph (a) to read:

„(a) If vehicular traffic is regulated at that crossing by traffic light signals or by an authorized official, drivers forbidden to proceed shall stop short of the crossing or the transverse markings preceding it and, when they are permitted to proceed, shall not prevent or obstruct the passage of pedestrians who have stepped on to it; drivers turning into another road at the entrance to which there is a pedestrian crossing shall do so slowly and give way, if necessary stopping for this purpose, to pedestrians already using, or about to use, the crossing.”

Paragraph 4

Renumber the present paragraph 2_ as 4.

ARTICLE 23 (Standing and parking)

Paragraph 1

Amend to read:

„1. Outside built-up areas, standing or parked vehicles and halted animals shall so far as possible be stationed elsewhere than on the carriageway. In and outside built-up areas they shall not be stationed on cycle tracks, on pavements or on verges specially provided for pedestrian traffic, save where applicable domestic legislation so permits.”

Paragraph 3 (b)

Add:

„(iv) At any place where the vehicle would conceal road signs or traffic light signals from the view of road-users;

(v) On an additional lane indicated by a sign for slowly moving vehicles.”

Paragraph 3 (c)

Delete item (v)

ARTICLE 25 (Motorways and similar roads)

Paragraph 2

Amend to read:

„2. Drivers emerging on to a motorway shall give way to vehicles travelling on it. If there is an acceleration lane, they shall use it.”

Insert a new articel to read:

„ARTICLE 25 bis

Special regulations for tunnels indicated by special road signs

In tunnels indicated by the special road signs, the following rules shall apply:

1. All drivers are forbidden:

(a) to reverse;

(b) to make a U-turn;

(c) to stop or to park a vehicle except at the places indicated for that purpose.

2. Even if the tunnel is lit, all drivers must switch on the driving or passing lamps.

3. In case of a prolonged stoppage the driver must switch off the engine.”

ARTICLE 28 (Audible and luminous warnings)

Paragraph 2

Amend to read:

„2. Motor-vehicle drivers may give the luminous warnings specified in Article 32, paragraph 3, ...”

Insert a new articel to read:

„ARTICLE 30 bis

Carriage of passengers

Passengers shall not be carried in such numbers or in such a way as to interfere with driving or obstruct the driver’s view.”

Fort he existing text of Articel 32 substitute:

„ARTICLE 32

Rules of the use of lamps

1. Between nightfall and dawn and in any other circumstances when visibility is inadequate on account, for example, of fog, snowfall or heavy rain, the following lamps shall be lit on a moving vehicle:

(a) On power-driven vehicles and mopeds the driving lamp(s) or passing lamp(s) and the rear position lamp(s), according to the equipment prescribed by the present Convention for the vehicle of each category;

(b) On trailers, front position lamps, if such lamps are required according to Annex 5, paragraph 30, of this Convention, and not less than two rear position lamps.

2. Driving lamps shall be switched off and replaced by passing lamps:

(a) In built-up areas where the road is adequately lighted and outside built-up areas where the carriageway is continuously lighted and the lighting is sufficient to enable the driver to see clearly for an adequate distance and to enable other road-users to see the vehicle far enough away;

(b) When a driver is about to pass another vehicle, so as to prevent dazzle far enough away to enable the driver of the other vehicle to proceed easily and without danger;

(c) In any other circumstances in which it is necessary to avoid dazzling other road-users or the users of a waterway or railway running alongside the road.

3. When, however, a vehicle is following closely behind another vehicle, driving lamps may be used to give a luminous warning as referred to in Article 28, paragraph 2, of the intention to overtake.

4. Fog lamps may be lit only in thick fog, falling snow, heavy rain or similar conditions and, as regards front fog maps, as a substitute for passing lamps. Domestic legislation may authorize the simultaneous use of front fog lamps and passing lamps and the use of front fog lamps on narrow, winding roads.

5. On vehicles equipped with front position lamps, such lamps shall be used together with the driving lamps, the passing lamps or the front fog lamps.

6. During the day, a motor cycle moving on the road shall display at least one passing lamp to the front and a red lamp to the rear. Domestic legislation may permit the use of daytime running lamps instead of passing lamps.

7. Domestic legislation may make it compulsory for drivers of motor vehicles to use during the day either passing lamps or daytime running lamps. Rear position lamps shall in this case be used together with the front lamps.

8. Between nightfall and dawn and in any other circumstances when visibility is inadequate, the presence of power-driven vehicles and their trailers standing or parked on a road shall be indicated by front and rear position lamps. In thick fog, falling snow, heavy rain or similar conditions passing lamps or front fog lamps may be used. Rear fog lamps may in these conditions be used as a supplement to the rear position lamps.

9. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 8 of this Article, within a built-up area the front and rear position lamps may be replaced by parking lamps, provided that:

(a) The vehicle does not exceed 6 m in length and 2 m in width;

(b) No trailer is coupled to the vehicle;

(c) The parking lamps are placed on that side of the vehicle which is furthest from the carriageway edge alongside which the vehicle is standing or parked.

10. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraphs 8 and 9 of this Article, a vehicle may be standing or parked without any lamps lit:

(a) On a road lit in such a way that the vehicle is clearly visible at an adequate distance;

(b) Away from the carriageway and hard shoulder;

(c) In the case of mopeds and two-wheeled motor cycles without a side-car which are not equipped with batteries, at the extreme edge of a carriageway in a built-up area;

11. Domestic legislation may grant exemptions from the provisions of paragraphs 8 and 9 of this Article for vehicles standing or parked in streets in built-up areas where there is very little traffic.

12. Reversing lamps may be used only when the vehicle is reversing or about to reverse.

13. Hazard warning signal may be used only to warn other road-users of a particular danger:

(a) When a vehicle which has broken down or has been involved in an accident cannot be moved immediately, so that it constitutes an obstacle to other road-users;

(b) When indicating to other road-users the risk of an imminent danger.

14. Special warning lamps:

(a) Displaying a blue light may be used only on priority vehicles when carrying out an urgent mission or when in other cases it is necessary to give warning to other road-users of the presence of the vehicle;

(b) Displaying an amber light may be used only when the vehicles genuinely assigned to the specific tasks for which they were equipped with the special warning lamp or when the presence of such vehicles on the road constitutes a danger or inconvenience to other road-users.

The use of warning lamps displaying other colours may be authorized by domestic legislation.

15. In no circumstances shall a vehicle display a red light to the front or white light to the rear, subject to the exemptions mentioned in Annex 5, paragraph 61. A vehicle shall not be modified or lamps added to it in a way which could conflict with this requirement.”

Fort he existing text of Articel 33 substitute:

„ARTICLE 33

Rules of lighting of other vehicles than mentioned in Article 32 and of certain road users

1. Every vehicle or combination of vehicles to which the provisions of Article 32 of this Convention do not apply shall, when on a road between nightfall and dawn, show at least one white or selective-yellow light to the front and at least one red light to the rear. Where there is only one lamp at the front or only one lamp at the rear, the lamp shall be placed on the centre-line of the vehicle or on the side opposite to that corresponding to the direction of traffic.