What's this sticker telling me?

[AlfromNH]

Just curious, what's this sticker about? It's on the downtube right above the VIN

I think I can decipher the "R65" Part  

[georgesgiralt]

Hello,
If I'm not mistaken the round E1 means it is compliant with European regulations and that the country into which it has been approved is number one ... Meaning Germany ...
I bet the number following the E1 label is the approval number...

[Lucky_Lou]

Correct George.....but I wonder how Russia Turkey Bosnia etc. found there way onto the list as they are not member states ?
[ch9726]E1   Germany
[ch9726]E2   France
[ch9726]E3   Italy
[ch9726]E4   Netherlands
[ch9726]E5   Sweden
[ch9726]E6   Belgium
[ch9726]E7   Hungary
[ch9726]E8   Czech Republic
[ch9726]E9   Spain
[ch9726]E10 Yugoslavia
[ch9726]E11 British (United Kingdom)
[ch9726]E12 Austria
[ch9726]E13 Luxembourg
[ch9726]E14 Switzerland
[ch9726]E16 Norway
[ch9726]E17 Finland
[ch9726]E18 Denmark
[ch9726]E19 Romania
[ch9726]E20 Poland
[ch9726]E21 Portugal
[ch9726]E22 Russian
[ch9726]E23 Greece
[ch9726]E25 Croatia
[ch9726]E26 Slovenia
[ch9726]E27 Slovakia
[ch9726]E28 Belarus
[ch9726]E29 Estonia
[ch9726]E31 Bosnia Herzegovina
[ch9726]E37 Turkey
Lou

[georgesgiralt]

So maybe it's more international than Europe, then  

[AJB]

So maybe it's more international than Europe, then  

Yep - seems to be a UN thing now:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Forum_for_Harmonization_of_Vehicle_Regulations
Plenty of non European countries on there, but not the US or Canada.

[georgesgiralt]

UN and USA don't mix well ...

[montmil]

Traveling around, I have seen several large signs -usually on large ranch properties- that say, "Get the US out of the UN". I tend to agree.

[Barry]

I don't think harmonization of regulations is necessarily a bad thing provide it's kept simple and sensible.

If there was any doubt that the European bureaucrats are out of control, evidence was provided recently when they attempted to ban restaurants from serving olive oil in open dishes saying that they must use individual sealed containers.   The olive oil thing was quashed by several nations refusing to comply but how many millions of Euros did they waste with such nonsense. That's the problem with bureaucrats, they can't be trusted to be sensible.

[georgesgiralt]

Yes, and US trying to get out of UN is silly too. How come one of the biggest nation on the planet does not want to be part of it ? It is as far as I will go into politics on this forum...