andMr. Dillon asked the Minister for Local Government when the Government intend to sign and ratify the following agreements and conventions on road safety concluded in the framework of the Economic Commission for Europe: (a) Protocol on road signs and signals of 19th September 1949, (b) European Agreement supplementing the 1949 Convention on road traffic and the 1949 Protocol on road signs and signals of 16th September 1950, and (c) European Agreement on road markings of 13th December 1957.
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I do not propose to recommend accession to the protocol and agreements referred to. The system of road signs and markings adopted here in 1956 is based on recommendations by the United Nations Organisation for a world-wide system of signs and markings. This is wider in scope than the system recommended in the 1949 protocol, which may be regarded as the European system. At the same time, the general principles on which both the UNO and the European systems are based coincide, as indeed do very many of the signs, symbols and markings used.