Talk:Geneva Convention on Road Traffic

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Source: [1]. Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 00:41, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

D denotes Deutschland (Germany) !?

Distinguishing sign of the State of registration. D denotes Deutschland (Germany).

How does D denote Germany if Germany is not member of the Geneva convention?

According to the article, the convention specifies that the code must be displayed, not that it defines the codes. For the codes, it links (via redirect) to International vehicle registration code, which tells us that the codes are allocated by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. Largoplazo (talk) 18:51, 21 September 2021 (UTC)

Also, per the article on the Vienna Convention on Road Traffic, adopted by the United Nations Economic and Social Council (of which Germany is a member), that convention also calls for the badging of cars with the country codes; the Geneva Convention on road traffic is supplemental to that. Largoplazo (talk) 19:07, 21 September 2021 (UTC)

This would be right if you deal with "EUROPEAN AGREEMENT SUPPLEMENTING THE 1968 Convention on Road Traffic DONE AT Geneva ON 1 MAY 1971", but Geneva Convention on Road Traffic is about another convention, the 19 September 1949 one. Those tow treaties differ by their member which are not the same and by the text of the treaty which is not the same

According to UN treaties,

• Germany is member of the 1968 Convention on Road Traffic DONE AT Vienna (and the ) but not of the 1949 one. This is the reason why the D works fine with members of the 1968 Vienna convention on road traffic.
• Canada might be member of the 1949 Convention on Road Traffic DONE AT GENEVA but not Germany. This is the reason why we can wonder How does D denote Germany if Germany is not member of the (1949) Geneva convention on road traffic.

In Fact: License plates with the distinguishing sign incorporated, such as the common EU format (for instance ) is not valid in countries that party only to the Geneva Convention on Road Traffic, unless they are members of the EU/EEA. It does however satisfy the requirements set out in the Vienna Convention on Road Traffic.