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ANNEX. — Text of the articles of the Statute on the International Regime of Railways and of the provisions relating thereto contained in the Protocol of Signature. Verdrag en Statuut nopens het Internationale Zeehavenregime

Text of the articles of the Statute on the International Regime of Railways and of the provisions relating thereto contained in the Protocol of Signature.

Article 4. Recognising the necessity of granting sufficient elasticity in the operation of railways to allow the complex needs of traffic to be met, it is the intention of the Contracting States to maintain unimpaired full freedom of operation while ensuring that such freedom is exercised without detriment to international traffic.

They undertake to give reasonable facilities to international traffic and to refrain from all discrimination of an unfair nature directed against the other Contracting States, their nationals or their vessels.

The benefit of the provisions of the present article is not confined to traffic governed by a single contract; it extends also to the traffic dealt with in Articles 21 and 22 of the present Statute subject to the conditions specified in the said articles.

Article 20. The Contracting States, recognising the necessity in general of leaving tariffs sufficient flexibility to permit of their being adapted as closely as possible to the complex needs of trade and commercial competition retain full freedom to frame their tariffs in accordance with the principles accepted by their own legislation, provided that this freedom is exercised without detriment to international traffic.

They undertake to apply to international traffic tariffs which are reasonable both as regards their amounts and the conditons of their application, and undertake to refrain from all discrimination of an unfair nature directed against the other Contracting States, their nationals or their vessels.

These provisions shall not prevent the establishment of combined rail and sea tariffs which comply with the principles laid down in the previous paragraphs.

Article 21. The benefit of the provisions of Article 20 shall not be confined to transport based on single contracts. It shall extend equally to transport made up of successive stages by rail, by sea or by any other mode of transport traversing the territory of more than one Contracting State and regulated by separate contracts, subjet to the fulfilment of the following conditions:

Each of the successive contracts must specify the initial source and final destination of the consignment; during the whole duration of carriage the goods must remain under the supervision of the carriers and must be forwarded by each carrier to his successor direct and without delay other than that necessary for the completion of the transport operations and the Customs, octroi, police or other administrative formalities.

Article 22. The provisions of Article 20 shall be equally applicable to internal, as well as to international, traffic by rail as regards goods which remain temporarily at the port without regard to the flag under which they have been imported or will be exported.

Protocol of Signature. It is understood that any differential treatment of flags based solely on the consideration of the flag should be considered as discrimination of an unfair nature in the sense of Articles 4 and 20 of the Statute on the International Regime of Railways.

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Verdrag en Statuut nopens het Internationale Zeehavenregime
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Verdrag
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22-05-1928
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1928-05-22_0

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