Article
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The Contracting Parties shall establish Rules for periodical technical inspections of wheeled vehicles registered or taken into service in their territory and shall reciprocally recognize the inspections carried out in accordance with those Rules. The Rules shall be established through an Administrative Committee made up to all the Contracting Parties in conformity with the Rules of Procedure set out in Appendix 1 and on the basis of the following paragraphs and articles.
For the purposes of this Agreement,
the term “wheeled vehicles" shall include any motor vehicles and their trailers;
the term “technical inspection" shall include the inspection of any equipment and parts which are used on wheeled vehicles and whose characteristics have a bearing on road safety, protection of the environment and energy saving; the term “rules for periodical technical inspections of wheeled vehicles" shall include provisions for the proof of the periodical administrative uniform procedure by which the competent authorities of a Contracting Party declare, after the required verifications have been carried out, that the wheeled vehicle conforms to the requirements of the given Rules. As proof shall serve a technical inspection certificate the model of which is reproduced in Appendix 2 to this Agreement.