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[接上页] B. Measures to facilitate clearance of cargo, passengers, crew and baggage C. Facilitation for ships engaged on cruises and for cruise passengers D. Special measures of facilitation for passengers in transit E. Measures of facilitation for ships engaged in scientific services F. Further measures of facilitation for foreigners belonging to the crews of ships engaged in international voyages-shore leave Section 4 Public health and quarantine including sanitary measures for animals and plants Section 5 Miscellaneous provisions A. Bonds and other forms of security B. Errors in documentation and penalties therefor C. Services at ports D. Cargo not discharged at the port of intended destination E. Limitation of shipowner''s responsibilities F. Emergency assistance G. National facilitation committees Convention on Facilitation of International Maritime Traffic, 1965 THE CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS: DESIRING to facilitate maritime traffic by simplifying and reducing to a minimum the formalities,documentary requirements and procedures on the arrival, stay and departure of ships engaged in international voyages; HAVE AGREED as follows: Article I The Contracting Governments undertake to adopt, in accordance with the provisions of the present Convention and its Annex, all appropriate measures to facilitate and expedite international maritime traffic and to prevent unnecessary delays to ships and to persons and property on board. Article II (1) The Contracting Governments undertake to co-operate, in accordance with the provisions of the present Convention, in the formulation and application of measures for the facilitation of the arrival, stay and departure of ships. Such measures shall be, to the fullest extent practicable, not less favourable than measures applied in respect of other means of international transport; however, these measures may differ according to particular requirements. (2) The measures for the facilitation of international maritime traffic provided for under the present Convention and its Annex apply equally to the ships of coastal and non-coastal States the Governments of which are Parties to the present Convention. (3) The provisions of the present Convention do not apply to warships or pleasure yachts. Article III The Contracting Governments undertake to co-operate in securing the highest practicable degree of uniformity in formalities, documentary requirements and procedures in all matters in which such uniformity willfacilitate and improve international maritime traffic and keep to a minimum any alterations in formalities, documentary requirements and procedures necessary to meet special requirements of a domestic nature. Article IV With a view to achieving the ends set forth in the preceding articles of the present Convention,the Contracting Governments undertake to co-operate with each other or through the Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organization * (hereinafter called the "Organization") in matters relating to formalities, documentary requirements and procedures, as well as their application to international maritime traffic. [* The name of the Organization was changed to the "International Maritime Organization" by virtue of amendments to the Organization''s Convention which entered into force on 22 May 1982.] Article V (1) Nothing in the present Convention or its Annex shall be interpreted as preventing the application of any wider facilities which a Contracting Government grants or may grant in future in respect of international maritime traffic under its national laws or the provisionsof any other international agreement. (2) Nothing in the present Convention or its Annex shall be interpreted as precluding a Contracting Government from applying temporary measures considered by that Government to be necessary to preserve public morality, order and security or to prevent the introduction or spread ofdiseases or pests affecting public health, animals or plants. (3) All matters that are not expressly provided for in the present Convention remain subject to the legislation of the Contracting Governments. Article VI For the purposes of the present Convention and its Annex: (a) "Standards" are those measures the uniform application of which by Contracting Governments in accordance with the Convention is necessary and practicable in order to facilitate international maritime traffic; (b) "Recommended Practices" are those measures the application of which by Contracting Governments is desirable in order to facilitate international maritime traffic. Article VII (1) The Annex to the present Convention may be amended by the Contracting Governments,either at the proposal of one of them or by a Conference convened for that purpose. (2) Any Contracting Government may propose an amendment to the Annex by forwarding a draft amendment to the Secretary-General of the Organization (hereinafter called the "Secretary-General"): |