B Verdrag inzake het vergemakkelijken van het internationale verkeer ter zee
– ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF PERSONS
3.11 Recommended Practice. Public authorities should, with the cooperation of shipowners and port authorities and/or port administration, take appropriate measures to the end that satisfactory port traffic flow arrangements may be provided so that passengers, crew and baggage can be cleared rapidly, should provide adequate personnel, and should ensure that adequate installations are provided, particular attention being paid to baggage loading, unloading and conveyance arrangements (including the use of mechanized systems) and to points where passenger delays are frequently found to occur. Arrangements should be made, when necessary, for passage under shelter between the ship and the point where the passenger and crew check is to be made. Such arrangements and installations should be flexible and capable of expansion to meet increased security measures during higher security levels.
3.11.1 Recommended Practice. Public authorities should:
a) in cooperation with shipowners and port authorities, introduce suitable arrangements, such as:
(i) an individual and continuous method of processing passengers and baggage;
(ii) a system which would permit passengers readily to identify and obtain their checked baggage as soon as it is placed in an area where it may be claimed; and
(iii) ensuring that facilities and services are available to meet the needs of elderly and disabled passengers;
b) ensure that port authorities take all necessary measures so that:
(i) easy and speedy access for passengers and their baggage, to and from local transport, is provided; and
(ii) if crews are required to report to premises for governmental purposes, those premises should be readily accessible, and as close to one another as practicable.
3.11.2 Recommended Practice. Public authorities should consider, as a means of ensuring prompt clearance, the introduction of the dual-channel system for the clearance of passengers, and their baggage and private road vehicles.
3.12 Standard. Public authorities shall require that shipowners ensure that ship’s personnel take all appropriate measures which will help expedite arrival procedures for passengers and crew. These measures may include:
a) furnishing public authorities concerned with an advance message giving the best estimated time of arrival (ETA), followed by information as to any change in time, and stating the itinerary of the voyage where this may affect inspection requirements;
b) having ship’s documents ready for prompt review;
c) providing for ladders or other means of boarding to be rigged while the ship is en route to berth or anchorage; and
d) providing for prompt, orderly assembling and presentation of persons on board, with necessary documents, for inspection, with attention to arrangements for relieving crew members for this purpose from essential duties in engine-rooms and elsewhere.
3.13 Recommended Practice. The practice of entering names on passenger and crew documents should be to put the family name or names first.
3.14 Standard. Public authorities shall, without unreasonable delay, accept persons present on board a ship for examination as to their admissibility into the State.
3.15 Recommended Practice. Public authorities should not impose unreasonable or disproportionate fines upon shipowners, in the event that any control document in possession of a passenger is found by public authorities to be inadequate, or if, for that reason, the passenger is found to be inadmissible to the State.
3.15.1 Standard. Public authorities shall encourage shipowners to take precautions at the point of embarkation with a view to ensuring that passengers are in possession of any control documents prescribed by the receiving or transit States.
3.15.2 Standard. When a person is found to be inadmissible and is removed from the territory of the State, the shipowner shall not be precluded from recovering, from such a person, any costs arising from his or her inadmissibility.
3.15.3 Recommended Practice. For use at port terminals and on board ships in order to facilitate and expedite international maritime traffic, public authorities should implement, or where the matter does not come within their jurisdiction recommend responsible parties in their country to implement, standardized international signs and symbols developed or accepted by the Organization in cooperation with other appropriate international organizations and which, to the greatest extent practicable, are common to all modes of transport.
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- Verdrag inzake het vergemakkelijken van het internationale verkeer ter zee
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- FAL, FAL 1965
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- Verdrag
- Geldend vanaf
- 01-01-2025
- BWB-id
- BWBV0003243
- Versie
- 2025-01-01_0