# Council Decision of 25 September 2008 approving on behalf of the Community Annex 8 to the International Convention on the Harmonisation of Frontier Controls of Goods (2009/161/EC), Appendix 1 to Annex 8 to the Convention

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

INTERNATIONAL TECHNICAL INSPECTION CERTIFICATE
In accordance with the Agreement Concerning the Adoption of Uniform Conditions for Periodical Technical Inspections of Wheeled Vehicles and the Reciprocal Recognition of such Inspections (1997), entered into force on 27 January 2001.
1.. Accredited Technical Inspection Centres are responsible for conducting the inspection tests, granting the approval of compliance with the inspection requirements of the relevant rule(s) annexed to the 1997 Vienna Agreement, and specifying the latest date of next inspection to be indicated in line No 12.5 of the International Technical Inspection Certificate, the model of which is reproduced hereafter.
2.. The International Technical Inspection Certificate shall contain the information indicated hereafter. It may be a booklet in format A6 (148 × 105 mm), with a green cover and white inside pages, or a sheet of green or white paper of format A4 (210 × 197) folded to format A6 in such a way that the section containing the distinguishing sign of the State or of the United Nations forms the top of the folded certificate.
3.. Items of the certificate and their content shall be printed in the national language of the issuing Contracting Party by maintaining the numbering.
4.. The periodical inspection reports which are in use in the Contracting Parties to the Agreement may be used as an alternative. A sample of them shall be transmitted to the Secretary-General of the United Nations for information to the Contracting Parties.
5.. Handwritten, typed or computer generated entries on the International Technical Inspection Certificate to be made exclusively by the competent authorities, shall be in Latin characters.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2009/161/annex/n1/annex/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2009-161/annex-n1/annex-1
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