Frontier Facilities. 1. The Contracting Parties agree to designate frontier posts at border points to be specified in Protocol 2 to facilitate transit transport. 2. The Contracting Parties shall provide adequate facilities and related installations at frontier posts over the transit transport routes. 3. The Contracting Parties shall endeavour to: a. Provide, whenever possible, and within their national jurisdiction, frontier posts which are physically adjacent to those of other Contracting Parties concerned with control areas with checking requirements in order to facilitate the clearance and examination of the means of transport and goods in transit, so that repeated unloading and reloading of these goods may be avoided. Nothing shall prevent two or more Contracting Parties from conducting joint examination at the same place by officials of these Contracting Parties; b. Ensure that adequate manpower resources are made available for the speedy completion and clearance of frontier formalities, such as immigration, customs, health and foreign exchange controls; c. Allow goods in transit to be temporarily stored in approved places; d. Coordinate working hours of adjacent posts; and e. Provide, wherever possible, adequate parking space for containers and for vehicles awaiting goods clearance. 4. The Contracting Parties agree to be guided, wherever possible, by the provisions of the International Convention on Harmonization of Frontier Control of Goods, signed at Geneva on 21 October 1982, in their efforts to harmonise frontier facilities for goods in transit.
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Samples: Asean Framework Agreement on the Facilitation of Goods in Transit, Framework Agreement, Asean Framework Agreement on the Facilitation of Goods in Transit
Frontier Facilities. 1. The Contracting Parties agree to designate frontier posts at border points to be specified in Protocol 2 to facilitate transit transport.
2. The Contracting Parties shall provide adequate facilities and related installations at frontier posts over the transit transport routes.
3. The Contracting Parties shall endeavour to:
a. : Provide, whenever possible, and within their national jurisdiction, frontier posts which are physically adjacent to those of other Contracting Parties concerned with control areas with checking requirements in order to facilitate the clearance and examination of the means of transport and goods in transit, so that repeated unloading and reloading of these goods may be avoided. Nothing shall prevent two or more Contracting Parties from conducting joint examination at the same place by officials of these Contracting Parties;
b. ; Ensure that adequate manpower resources are made available for the speedy completion and clearance of frontier formalities, such as immigration, customs, health and foreign exchange controls;
c. ; Allow goods in transit to be temporarily stored in approved places;
d. ; Coordinate working hours of adjacent posts; and
e. and Provide, wherever possible, adequate parking space for containers and for vehicles awaiting goods clearance.
4. The Contracting Parties agree to be guided, wherever possible, by the provisions of the International Convention on Harmonization of Frontier Control of Goods, signed at Geneva on 21 October 1982, in their efforts to harmonise frontier facilities for goods in transit.
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Samples: Asean Framework Agreement on the Facilitation of Goods in Transit, Asean Framework Agreement on the Facilitation of Goods in Transit
