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FINAL ACT
(Brussel, 17.X.1953)
The European Conference of Ministers
of Transport held at Brussels from 13th to 17th October, 1953;
With a
view to reaching common accord on questions concerning European Inland
Transports;
Has adopted and opened for signature the text of a Protocol
concerning the European Conference of Ministers of Transport, with an Annex
containing Rules of Procedure;
And has in addition adopted the following
Resolutions concerning:
1. Rail Transport problems:
(a) Joint use
of goods wagons;
(b) Adoption of rational routes for the transport of
goods by rail and the unification of tariff rates;
(c) Standardisation of
equipment and electrification;
(d) International financing of purchases
of railway rolling stock;
(e) Measures to increase the number of
signatories to the International Conventions on Rail Transport and to expedite
the ratification of International Conventions drafted by specialised
Agencies.
2. Road Transport problems:
(a) Development of
international traffic arteries;
(b) Road signs and signals;
(c)
Weights and dimensions of motor vehicles;
(d) Regulations for
internationals transport;
(e) Road traffic;
(f) Provision of
frontier posts on main international traffic arteries.
3. Inland
Waterways Transport problems:
(a) Compilation of a list of development
projects for inland waterways of interest to Europe as a whole;
(b)
International problems involved in the use of inland waterways.
4.
General problems relating to the three modes of transport:
(a) Capital
investment in transport;
(b) Perishable goods.
PROTOCOL
CONCERNING THE EUROPEAN CONFERENCE
OF MINISTERS OF
TRANSPORT
(Brussel, 17.X.1953)
The Governments represented at the
European Conference of Ministers of Transport meeting in Brussels from 13th to
17th October, 1953;
Desirous of instituting a procedure whereby effective
steps can be taken to co-ordinate and rationalise European inland transport of
international importance;
Have agreed as follows:
Article
1
European Conference of Ministers of Transport
There is hereby
organised a European Conference of Ministers of Transport (hereinafter referred
to as "the Conference").
Article 2
Structure of the Conference
The
Conference shall comprise:
(a) A Council of Ministers of Transport
(hereinafter referred to as "the Council");
(b) A Committee of Deputies
(hereinafter referred to as "the Committee");
These two bodies shall be
assisted by Administrative Secretaries.
Article 3
Purposes of the
Conference
The purposes of the Conference shall be:
(a) To take
whatever measures may be necessary to achieve, at general or regional level, the
maximum use and most rational development of European inland transport of
international importance;
(b) To co-ordinate and promote the activities
of international organisations concerned with European inland transport, taking
into account the work of supranational authorities in this field.
Article
4
Membership and Associate Membership of the Conference
1. The members
of the Conference shall be the contracting parties to the present Protocol.
2. The associate members of the Conference shall be the Government of the
United States of America and the Government of Canada, if they so request, and
any other Government, after its application for associate membership has
received the unanimous approval of the Council.
3. Associate members may
be represented by observers at all meetings of the Council and of the Committee.
All documents originating in the Conference shall be communicated to
them.
Article 5
Council of Ministers
The Council shall be composed
of those Ministers who are responsible for inland transport in their own
Governments. In those cases where, in one Government, different inland transport
questions are dealt with by two or more Ministers, any of those Ministers may
participate in the work of the Council provided that no member Government shall
have more than one vote in the Council.
Article 6
Committee of
Deputies
1. The Committee shall be composed of officials appointed on the
basis of one deputy for each Minister, it being understood that each member
Government shall have no more than one vote in the Committee.
2. The
function of the Committee shall be:
(a) To prepare for each meeting of
the Council;
(b) To deal with questions delegated to it by the
Council;
(c) To report on the measures taken in different countries to
implement the conclusions reached within the Conference.
Article
7
Administrative Arrangements
(a) The administrative seat of the
Conference shall be in Paris. The Council shall meet at the administrative seat
of the Conference, or elsewhere, as they may decide. The Committee shall
normally meet at the administrative seat of the Conference. They may, however,
meet elsewhere if the Council so decide with the agreement of the Government
concerned.
(b) The administrative secretariat shall be administratively
integrated with the secretariat of the Organisation for European Economic
Co-operation but they shall be solely under the operational control of the
Conference. The Administrative Secretaries shall be appointed with the agreement
of the Conference. They shall be responsible for the preparation of the agenda,
records and minutes of the meetings of the Council or Committee. They shall also
take note of the conclusions of the Conference and shall be responsible for the
distribution of documents and the safekeeping of the archives of the
Conference.
Article 8
Restricted Groups
(a) Restricted groups may be
formed for the purpose of initiating studies and discussions, within the
framework of the Conference, of questions which are of special interest to
certain members and are covered by the purposes of the Conference.
(b)
The Council shall be notified of the formation of any restricted group and kept
informed of the general progress of its work.
(c) If the other members
consider their interests are involved, they will be allowed to follow the
studies and discussions of the restricted group, but they will not be able to
oppose their being carried out within the framework of the
Conference.
Article 9
Conclusions of the Conference
(a) The
conclusions reached within the Conference shall be put into effect in the
countries in agreement with them in that the Ministers of Transport concerned,
acting individually within the area of their national competence, shall take or
propose whatever measures may seem to them to be most appropriate.
(b)
Whenever the conclusion of a general or restricted international agreement seems
necessary, each Minister of Transport concerned shall seek from his Government
full powers to enable him, or any person or persons specially appointed for the
purpose, to conclude the international agreement in question. Any international
agreement so concluded between a limited number of member Governments shall be
open for accession by other member Governments.
(c) The Conference or a
restricted group may, by unanimous agreement, in any particular instance
notwithstanding the provisions of (a) and (b) above, transmit its conclusions to
any international organisation competent to take decisions with a request that
the organisation in question should adopt the conclusion concerned as its own
decision.
(d) Any Government which is a member of the Conference but is
not a member of an international organisation which may have taken a decision
under the provisions of paragraph (c) above, may notify the Conference of its
intention to act as though it were bound by that decision.
Article
10
Financial Responsibilities
(a) The Organisation for European Economic
Cooperation will be invited to pay the salaries and expenses of the
Administrative secretariat and to provide whatever facilities may be required
for the proper working of the Conference. Whenever a body of the Conference
meets elsewhere than at the administrative seat of the Conference, the host
country shall pay all the expenses incurred by the meeting except the salaries
of the administrative secretariat which shall be paid by the Organisation for
European Economic Co-operation.
(b) Member Governments of the Conference
who are not members of the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation will
contribute to the expenses of the Conference under special arrangements to be
concluded between them and the Organisation for European Economic
Co-operation.
(c) The detailed application of this Article and of Article
7 above shall be the subject of an arrangement between the Conference and the
Organisation for European Economic Co-operation.
Article 11
Relations
with International Organisations
(a) The Conference may establish relations
with any supranational inter-governmental or non-governmental international
organisation concerned with European inland transport.
(b) Whenever
particular technical questions under discussion in the Conference may require
the undertaking of special studies, the Council or the Committee will, whenever
possible and in whatever manner seems most suitable, invite an appropriate
inter-governmental or non-governmental international organisation concerned with
European inland transport to carry out the studies required. The Committee
shall, on the basis of these studies, submit its conclusions to the Council for
approval.
(c) (i) It is recognised that the Conference has a major
interest in consulting the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation on
questions of European inland transport of general economic importance, and also
in consulting the other organisations referred to in paragraph (a) above on
problems of transport in their respective fields. This consultation shall, as
far as possible, be on a reciprocal basis.
(ii) If the Organisation for
European Economic Co-operation considers that a question studied by the
Conference is of general economic importance, it may unanimously request to be
consulted, it being understood that the Conference may equally request, under
the same conditions, to be consulted by the Organisation for European Economic
Co-operation on problems falling within its own competence.
Article
12
Rules of Procedure
1. The Rules of the Procedure annexed hereto shall
govern the work of the Conference.
2. The Council may, by unanimous
decision, revise or make addition to the Rules of Procedure.
Article
13
Amendments
Any amendments to this Protocol may be adopted by the
Council, the Ministers acting unanimously and furnished with full powers from
their Governments. Any such amendments shall enter into force when all the
member Governments have approved them.
Article 14
Signature.
Ratification and Entry into Force
1. The present Protocol shall remain open
for signature, in Brussels, until 1st May, 1954, to all Governments represented
at the European Conference of Transport Ministers held at Brussels from 13th to
17th October, 1953.
2. Any such Government may become a contracting party
to the present Protocol:
(a) By signature without reservation as to
ratification;
(b) By signature with reservation as to ratification,
followed by ratification.
3. In the cases referred to in paragraph 2 (b)
above, the instruments of ratification shall be deposited with the Belgian
Government, and shall take effect upon deposit. The Belgian Government shall
notify the Governments referred to in paragraph 1 above of the deposit of
instruments of ratification.
4. The present Protocol shall enter into
force when six Governments have finally approved it, either by signature without
reservation as to ratification or by signature followed by ratification, as the
case may be. For each Government signing without reservation as to ratification
or ratifying after the entry into force of the present Protocol, the Protocol
shall enter into force upon signature or ratification, as the case may be.
5. Nevertheless, pending the entry into force of this Protocol, those
Governments who have signed with reservation as to ratification agree, in order
to avoid delay, to put it into operation upon signature on a provisional basis
in so far as their several constitutional requirements permit.
Article
15
Accession
1. Any non-signatory European Government may become a
contracting party to the present Protocol by accession thereto, after its
application for membership of the Conference has been unanimously approved by
the Council.
2. Instruments of accession shall be deposited with the
Belgian Government and shall take effect upon deposit.
Article
16
Withdrawal
Any member Government may withdraw from the present
Protocol by giving six months" notice to the Belgian Government, which shall
notify other member Governments.
In witness whereof the undersigned
Plenipotentiaries being duly authorized to that effect have signed the present
Protocol.
Done at Brussels this 17th of October, 1953, in the English and
French languages, both texts being equally authentic, in a single copy which
shall remain deposited in the archives of the Belgian Government by which
certified copies will be communicated to all the Participating
Governments.
(Follow the signatures)
Annex
RULES
OF PROCEDURE FOR THE EUROPEAN CONFERENCE
OF
MINISTERS OF TRANSPORT
Rule 1
Council
a) The Council shall elect on
the agreement of the majority of members present a Bureau consisting of a
Chairman and two Vice-Chairmen. This Bureau shall in principle be re-elected
annually and shall remain in office until new officers are elected.
b)
The outgoing Chairman shall normally be replaced by the senior Vice-Chairman of
the previous year and the latter by the junior Vice-Chairman of the previous
year.
c) If, while holding office, a member of the Bureau should
relinquish his responsibilities for transport in this own Government, he shall
automatically be succeeded by his successor in his Government.
Rule
2
This Council shall in principle be convened by its Chairman at least once
a year. In addition, a meeting of the Council shall be convened by the Chairman
on the express request of not less than one-third of the members.
Rule
3
Committee
The Bureau of the Committee shall consist of a Chairman and
two Vice-Chairmen. In order to ensure close co-operation between the Bureaux of
the Council
