Cross-Border Transport Agreement

Part IX: Miscellaneous Provisions

Article 30: Observance and Enforcement of National Laws and Regulations

1. People, Transport Operators, and Vehicles shall comply with the laws and regulations in force in the territory of the Host Country.
2. The enforcement of the local laws and regulations will be the sole competence of the authorities of the Host Country, in whose territory the law was infringed.
3. The Host Country may temporarily or permanently deny access to its territory to a person, a driver, a Transport Operator, or a Vehicle that has infringed the provisions of the Agreement or its national laws and regulations.

Article 31: Transparency of Legislation, Regulation and Status of Infrastructure

The Contracting Parties undertake to make available in the English language a comprehensive brochure on the national laws, regulations, procedures and technical information relating to the cross-border transport of goods and People, as stipulated in the Agreement.

Article 32: Nondiscriminatory Treatment

The Contracting Parties undertake to provide equal and not less favorable treatment to the Vehicles, goods and People of the other Contracting Parties than to those of any Third Country, in the cross-border transport in accordance with the provisions of the Agreement.

Article 33: Assistance in the Case of Traffic Accidents

In case of a road traffic accident involving People, Transport Operators, Vehicles or goods from another Contracting Party, the Host Country will provide all possible assistance and notify the Competent Authorities of the Home Country as soon as possible.

Article 34: Multimodal Transport

The Contracting Parties undertake to promote multimodal transport operations via:

1. application of a uniform multimodal transport liability regime, set out in Annex 13a
2. laying down of minimum qualifications for multimodal Transport Operators, set out in Annex 13b; and
3. a special container customs regime as set out in Annex 14.

Article 35: Documentation and Procedures

1. The Contracting Parties recognize that documentation and procedures represent important time and cost elements affecting the efficiency of transit operations and agree to keep these costs and delays to a minimum.
2. The Contracting Parties therefore undertake to:
1. limit the number of documents and reduce to the extent possible, procedures and formalities required for cross-border traffic
2. provide English translation of all documents used for cross-border traffic
3. align their documents to the United Nations layout key for trade documents
4. harmonize, as far as possible, commodity codes and descriptions with those commonly used in cross-border trade, as set out in Annex 15
5. review periodically the need for and usefulness of all documents and procedures required for cross-border traffic
6. eliminate any documents and formal requirements that are superfluous or do not serve any particular purpose
7. undertake to conform all measurements with SI Units (the International System of Modem Metric Units), by 2005; and
8. give due advance notice to the other Contracting Parties of any additional requirement or modification in prescribed documentation and procedures to be introduced regarding cross-border traffic.

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