Decreto n.º 54-A/97 — Aprova, para ratificação, a Convenção sobre a Importação Temporária

For the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic:

For the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic:

For the United Republic of Tanzania:

For Romania:

For the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Nor-thern Ireland:

M. B. Collins.

Sir J. B. Unwin K. C. B.

Subject to ratification.

For Rwanda:

For Saint Christopher and Nevis:

For Saint Lucia:

For Saint Vincent and the Grenadines:

For Samoa:

For São Tomé and Príncipe:

For Senegal:

For Seychelles:

For Sierra Leone:

For Singapore:

For Somalia:

For the Sudan:

A. J. A. Mahil.

Subject to ratification.

For Sri Lanka:

For Sweden:

For Switzerland:

For Suriname:

For Swaziland:

For Chad:

For Czechoslovakia:

For Thailand:

For Togo:

For Tonga:

For Trinidad and Tobago:

For Tunisia:

For Turkey:

B. Özdemir.

Subject to ratification, annexes A and B.1 will be accepted.

For Tuvalu:

For Union of Myanmar:

For the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics:

For Uruguay:

For Vanuatu:

For Venezuela:

For Viet Nam:

For Yemen:

For Yugoslavia:

For Zaire:

For Zambia:

For Zimbabwe:

For the European Economic Community:

Peter Wilmott.

Subject to acceptance.

ANNEX A

Annex concerning temporary admission papers (ATA carnets and CPD carnets)

CHAPTER I

Definitions

Article 1

For the purposes of this annex, the term:

CHAPTER II

Scope

Article 2

1 - In accordance with article 5 of this Convention, each Contracting Party shall accept in lieu of its national customs documents, and as due security for the sums referred to in article 8 of this annex temporary admission papers valid for its territory and issued and used in accordance with the conditions laid down in this annex for goods (including means of transport) temporarily imported under the other annexes to this Convention which it has accepted.

2 - Each Contracting Party may also accept temporary admission papers, issued and used under the same conditions, for temporary admission operations under its national laws and regulations.

3 - Each Contracting Party may accept temporary admission papers, issued and used under the same conditions, for customs transit.

4 - Goods (including means of transport), intended to be processed or repaired shall not be imported under cover of temporary admission papers.

Article 3

1 - Temporary admission papers shall correspond to the models set out in the appendices to this annex: appendix I for ATA carnets, appendix II for CPD carnets.

2 - The appendices to this annex shall be construed to be an integral part of the annex.

CHAPTER III

Guarantee and issue of temporary admission papers

Article 4

1 - Subject to such conditions and guarantees as it shall determine, each Contracting Party may authorize guaranteeing associations to act as guarantors and to issue temporary admission papers, either directly or through issuing associations.

2 - A guaranteeing association shall not be approved by any Contracting Party unless its guarantee covers the liabilities incurred in that Contracting Party in connection with operations under cover of temporary admission papers issued by corresponding issuing associations.

Article 5

1 - Issuing associations shall not issue temporary admission papers with a period of validity exceeding one year from the date of issue.

2 - Any particulars inserted on temporary admission papers by the issuing associations may be altered only with the approval of the issuing or guaranteeing association. No alteration to those papers may be made after they have been accepted by the customs authorities of the territory of temporary admission, except with the consent of those authorities.

3 - Once an ATA carnet has been issued, no extra item shall be added to the list of goods enumerated on the reverse of the front cover of the carnet, or on any continuation sheets appended thereto (general list).

Article 6

The following particulars shall appear on the temporary admission papers:

• The name of the issuing association;

• The name of the international guaranteeing chain;

• The countries or customs territories in which the temporary admission papers are valid; and

• The names of the guaranteeing associations of the countries or customs territories in question.

Article 7

The period fixed for the re-exportation of goods (including means of transport) imported under cover of temporary admission papers shall not in any case exceed the period of validity of those papers.

CHAPTER IV

Guarantee

Article 8

1 - Each guaranteeing association shall undertake to pay to the customs authorities of the Contracting Party in the territory of which it is established the amount of the import duties and taxes and any other sums, excluding those referred to in article 4, paragraph 4, of this Convention, payable in the event of non-compliance with the conditions of temporary admission, or of customs transit, in respect of goods (including means of transport) introduced into that territory under cover of temporary admission papers issued by a corresponding issuing association. It shall be liable jointly and severally with the persons from whom the sums mentioned above are due, for payment of such sums.

2 - ATA carnet. - The liability of the guaranteeing association shall not exceed the amount of the import duties and taxes by more than ten percent.

CPD carnet. - The guaranteeing association shall not be required to pay a sum greater than the total amount of the import duties and taxes, together with interest if applicable.

3 - When the customs authorities of the territory of temporary admission have unconditionally discharged temporary admission papers in respect of certain goods (including means of transport), they can no longer claim from the guaranteeing association payment of the sums referred to in paragraph 1 of this article in respect of these goods (including means of transport). A claim may nevertheless still be made against the guaranteeing association if it is subsequently discovered that the discharge of the papers was obtained improperly or fraudulently or that there had been a breach of the conditions of temporary admission or of customs transit.

4 - ATA carnet. - Customs authorities shall not in any circumstances require from the guaranteeing association payment of the sums referred to in paragraph 1 of this article if a claim has not been made against the guaranteeing association within a year of the date of expiry of the validity of the ATA carnet.

CPD carnet. - Customs authorities shall not in any circumstances require from the guaranteeing association payment of the sums referred to in paragraph 1 of this article if notification of the non-discharge of the CPD carnet has not been given to the guaranteeing association within a year of the date of expiry of the validity of the carnet. Furthermore, the customs authorities shall provide the guaranteeing association with details of the calculation of import duties and taxes due within one year from the notification of the non-discharge. The guaranteeing association's liability for these sums shall cease if such information is not furnished within this one year period.

CHAPTER V

Regularization of temporary admission papers

Article 9

1 - ATA carnet:

2 - CPD carnet:

Article 10

1 - Evidence of re-exportation of goods (including means of transport) imported under cover of temporary admission papers shall be provided by the re-exportation counterfoil completed and stamped by the customs authorities of the territory of temporary admission.

2 - If the re-exportation has not been certified in accordance with paragraph 1 of this article, the customs authorities of the territory of temporary admission may, even if the period of validity of the papers has already expired, accept as evidence of re-exportation:

3 - In any case in which the customs authorities of a Contracting Party waive the requirement of re-exportation of certain goods (including means of transport) admitted into their territory under cover of temporary admission papers, the guaranteeing association shall be discharged from its obligations only when those authorities have certified in the papers that the position regarding those goods (including means of transport) has been regularized.

Article 11

In the cases referred to in article 10, paragraph 2, of this annex, the customs authorities shall have the right to charge a regularization fee.

CHAPTER VI

Miscellaneous provisions

Article 12

Customs endorsements on temporary admission papers used under the conditions laid down in this annex shall not be subject to the payment of charges for customs attendance at customs offices during the normal hours of business.

Article 13

In the case of the destruction, loss or theft of temporary admission papers while the goods (including means of transport) to which they refer are in the territory of one of the Contracting Parties, the customs authorities of that Contracting Party shall, at the request of the issuing association and subject to such conditions as those authorities may prescribe, accept replacement papers, the validity of which expires on the same date as that of the papers which they replace.

Article 14

1 - Where it is expected that the temporary admission operation will exceed the period of validity of the temporary admission papers because of the inability of the holder to re-export the goods (including means of transport) within that period, the association which issued the papers may issue replacement papers. Such papers shall be submitted to the customs authorities of the Contracting Parties concerned for control. When accepting the replacement papers, the customs authorities concerned shall discharge the papers replaced.

2 - The validity of CPD carnets can only be extended once for not more than one year. After this period, a new carnet must be issued in replacement of the former carnet and accepted by the customs authorities.

Article 15

Where article 7, paragraph 3, of this Convention applies, the customs authorities shall, as far as possible, notify the guaranteeing association of seizures made by them or on their behalf of goods (including means of transport) admitted under cover of temporary admission papers guaranteed by that association and shall advise it of the measures they intend to take.

Article 16

In the event of fraud, contravention or abuse, the Contracting Parties shall, notwithstanding the provisions of this annex, be free to take proceedings against persons using temporary admission papers, for the recovery of the import duties and taxes and other sums payable and also for the imposition of any penalties to which such persons have rendered themselves liable. In such cases the associations shall lend their assistance to the customs authorities.

Article 17

Temporary admission papers or parts thereof which have been issued or are intended to be issued in the territory into which they are imported and which are sent to an issuing association by a guaranteeing association, by an international organization or by the customs authorities of a Contracting Party, shall be admitted free of import duties and taxes and free of any import prohibitions or restrictions. Corresponding facilities shall be granted at exportation.

Article 18

1 - Each Contracting Party shall have the right to enter a reservation, in accordance with article 29 of this Convention, in respect of the acceptance of ATA carnets for postal traffic.

2 - No other reservation to this annex shall be permitted.

Article 19

1 - Upon its entry into force this annex shall, in accordance with article 27 of this Convention, terminate and replace the customs Convention on the ATA carnet for the temporary admission of goods, Brussels, 6 December 1961 (ATA Convention), in relations between the Contracting Parties which have accepted this annex and are Contracting Parties to that Convention.

2 - Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 1 of this article, ATA carnets which have been issued under the terms of the ATA Convention prior to the entry into force of this annex, shall be accepted until completion of the operations for which they were issued.

APPENDIX I

Model of ATA carnet

The ATA carnet shall be printed in English or French and may also be printed in a second language.

The size of the ATA carnet shall be 396 mm x 210 mm and that of the vouchers 297 mm x 210 mm.

([ver documento original](https://files.diariodarepublica.pt/1s/1997/10/228a01/00020149.pdf))

APPENDIX II

Model of CPD Carnet

The CPD carnet is printed in English and French.

The size of the CPD carnet shall be 21 cm x 29,7 cm.

The issuing association shall insert its name on each voucher and shall include the initials of the international guaranteeing chain to which it belongs.

([ver documento original](https://files.diariodarepublica.pt/1s/1997/10/228a01/00020149.pdf))

ANNEX B.1

Annex concerning goods for display or use at exhibitions, fairs, meetings or similar events

CHAPTER I

Definition

Article 1

For the purposes of this annex, the term «event» means:

1) A trade, industrial, agricultural or crafts exhibition, fair, or similar show or display;

2) An exhibition or meeting which is primarily organized for a charitable purpose;

3) An exhibition or meeting which is primarily organized to promote any branch of learning, art, craft, sport or scientific, educational or cultural activity, to promote religious knowledge or worship, to promote tourism or to promote friendship between peoples;

4) A meeting of representatives of any international organization or international group of organizations; or

5) A representative meeting of an official or commemorative character;

except exhibitions organized for private purposes in shops or business premises with a view to the sale of foreign goods.

CHAPTER II

Scope

Article 2

1 - The following goods shall be granted temporary admission in accordance with article 2 of this Convention:

ii) Construction and decoration material, including electrical fittings, for the temporary stands of foreign exhibitors;

iii) Advertising and demonstration material which is demonstrably publicity material for the foreign goods displayed, for example, sound and image recordings, films and lantern slides, as well as apparatus for us therewith;

2 - For the facilities referred to in this annex to apply:

CHAPTER III

Miscellaneous provisions

Article 3

Unless the national legislation of the territory of temporary admission so permits, goods granted temporary admission shall not, whilst they are the subject of the facilities granted under this Convention:

Article 4

1 - The period for the re-exportation of goods imported for display or use at exhibitions, fairs, meetings or similar events shall be at least six months from the date of temporary admission.

2 - Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 1 of this article the customs authorities shall allow such goods which are to be displayed or used at a subsequent event to remain within the territory of temporary admission, subject to compliance with such conditions as may be required by the laws and regulations of that territory and provided that the goods are re-exported within one year of the date of temporary admission.

Article 5

1 - Under the terms of article 13 of this Convention, clearance for home use shall be granted free of import duties and taxes and without application of import prohibitions or restrictions in respect of the following goods:

ii) They are identifiable as advertising samples and are individually of little value;

iii) They are unsuitable for commercial purposes and are, where appropriate, packed in quantities appreciably smaller than the smallest retail package;

iv) Samples of foods and beverages which are not distributed in packs as provided for in iii) above are consumed at the event; and

ii) The aggregate value and quantity of such goods are, in the opinion of the customs authorities of the territory of temporary admission, reasonable having regard to the nature of the event, the number of visitors to it and the extent of the exhibitor's participation therein;

2 - The provisions of paragraph 1 of this article shall not be applicable to alcoholic beverages, tobacco goods and fuels.

Article 6

1 - Customs examination and clearance on the importation and re-exportation of goods which are to be, or have been, displayed or used at an event shall, whenever possible and appropriate, be effected at that event.

2 - Each Contracting Party shall endeavour, wherever it deems it appropriate in view of the importance and size of the event, to establish a customs office for a reasonable period on the premises of an event held within its territory.

Article 7

Products obtained incidentally during the event from temporarily imported goods, as a result of the demonstration of displayed machinery or apparatus, shall be subject to the provisions of this Convention.

Article 8

Each Contracting Party shall have the right to enter a reservation, in accordance with article 29 of this Convention, in respect of the provisions of article 5, paragraph 1, a), of this annex.

Article 9

Upon its entry into force, this annex shall, in accordance with article 27 of this Convention, terminate and replace the customs Convention concerning facilities for the importation of goods for display or use at exhibitions, fairs, meetings or similar events, Brussels, 8 June 1961, in relations between the Contracting Parties which have accepted this annex and are Contracting Parties to that Convention.

ANNEX B.2

Annex concerning professional equipment

CHAPTER I

Definition

Article 1

For the purposes of this annex, the term «professional equipment» means:

1) Equipment for the press or for sound or television broadcasting which is necessary for representatives of the press or of broadcasting or television organizations visiting the territory of another country for purposes of reporting or in order to transmit or record material for specified programmes. An illustrative list of such equipment is set out at appendix I to this annex;

2) Cinematographic equipment necessary for a person visiting the territory of another country in order to make a specified film or films. An illustrative list of such equipment is set out at appendix II to this annex;

3) Any other equipment necessary for the exercise of the calling, trade or profession of a person visiting the territory of another country to perform a specified task. It does not include equipment which is to be used for the industrial manufacture or packaging of goods or (except in the case of hand tools) for the exploitation of natural resources, for the construction, repair or maintenance of buildings or for earth moving and like projects. An illustrative list of such equipment is set out at appendix III to this annex;

4) Ancillary apparatus for the equipment mentioned in items 1, 2 and 3 of this article, and accessories therefor.

CHAPTER II

Scope

Article 2

The following goods shall be granted temporary admission in accordance with article 2 of this Convention:

CHAPTER III

Miscellaneous provisions

Article 3

1 - For the facilities granted by this annex to apply, the professional equipment shall be:

2 - Paragraph 1, c), of this article shall not apply in the case of equipment imported for the production of a film, television programme or audiovisual works, under a co-production contract to which a person established in the territory of temporary admission is a party and which is approved by the competent authorities of that territory under an inter-governmental agreement concerning co-production.

3 - The cinematographic equipment and equipment for the press or for sound or television broadcasting shall not be the subject of a hire contract or similar arrangement to which a person established in the territory of temporary admission is a party, provided that this condition shall not apply in the case of joint sound or television broadcasting programmes.

Article 4

1 - Temporary admission of radio and television production and broadcasting equipment and specially adapted radio or television vans and their equipment, imported by public or private bodies approved for that purpose by the customs authorities of the territory of temporary admission, shall be granted without a customs document or security being required.

2 - The customs authorities may require the production of a list or detailed inventory of the equipment referred to in paragraph 1 of this article together with a written undertaking to re-export.

Article 5

The period for the re-exportation of professional equipment shall be at least twelve months from the date of temporary admission. The period for the re-exportation of vehicles may, however, be determined with due regard to the purpose and the intended length of the stay in the territory of temporary admission.

Article 6

Each Contracting Party shall have the right to refuse or withdraw temporary admission in respect of vehicles referred to in appendices I to III to this annex, which, even on an occasional basis, embark persons for remuneration or load goods on its territory for disembarkation or unloading at a place within the same territory.

Article 7

The appendices to this annex shall be construed to be an integral part thereof.

Article 8

Upon its entry into force this annex shall, in accordance with article 27 of this Convention, terminate and replace the customs Convention on the temporary importation of professional equipment, Brussels, 8 June 1961, in relations between the Contracting Parties which have accepted this annex and are Contracting Parties to that Convention.

APPENDIX I

Equipment for the press or for sound or television broadcasting

Illustrative list

A - Equipment for the press, such as:

• Personal computers;

• Telefax equipment;

• Typewriters;

• Cameras of all kinds (film and electronic cameras);

• Sound or image transmitting, recording or reproducing apparatus tape and video recorders and video reproducers, microphones, mixing consoles, loudspeakers);

• Sound or image recording media blank or recorded;

• Testing and measuring instruments and apparatus (oscillographs, tape and video recorder test systems, multimeters, tool boxes and bags, vectorscopes, video generators, etc.);

• Lighting equipment (spotlights, converters, tripods);

• Operational accessories (cassette; exposure meters, lenses, tripods accumulators battery belts, battery chargers, monitors).

B - Sound broadcasting equipment, such as:

• Telecommunication equipment such as broadcast transmitter-receivers or transmitters; terminals connectable to network or cable; satellite links;

• Audio frequency production equipment (sound pick-up, recording or reproducing apparatus);

• Testing and measuring instruments and apparatus (oscillographs, tape and video recorder test systems, multimeters, tool boxes and bags, vectorscopes, video generators, etc.);

• Operational accessories (clocks, stopwatches, compasses, microphones, mixing consoles, sound tapes, generating sets, transformers, batteries and accumulators, battery chargers, heating, air-conditioning and ventilating apparatus, etc.);

• Sound recording media, blank or recorded.

C - Television broadcasting equipment, such as:

• Television cameras;

• Telecinema;

• Testing and measuring instruments and apparatus;

• Transmission and retransmission apparatus;

• Communication apparatus;

• Sound or image recording or reproducing apparatus (tape and video recorders and video reproducers, microphones, mixing consoles, loudspeakers);

• Lighting equipment (spotlights, converters, tripods);

• Editing equipment;

• Operational accessories (clocks, stopwatches, compasses, lenses, exposure meters, tripods, battery chargers, cassettes, generating sets, transformers, batteries and accumulators, heating, air-conditioning and ventilating apparatus, etc.);

• Sound or image recording media, blank or recorded (credit titles, station call signs, music inserts, etc.);

• «Film rushes»;

• Musical instruments, costumes, scenery and other stage properties, pedestals, make-up material, hairdryers.

D - Vehicles designed or specially adapted for the purposes specified above, such as:

• Television transmitting vehicles;

• Vehicles for television accessories;

• Video tape recording vehicles;

• Sound recording and reproducing vehicles;

• Slow motion vehicles;

• Light vehicles.

APPENDIX II

Cinematographic equipment

Illustrative list

A - Equipment, such as:

• Cameras of all kinds (film and electronic cameras);

• Testing and measuring instruments and apparatus (oscillographs, tape and video recorder test systems, multimeters, tool boxes and bags, vectorscopes, video generators, etc.);

• Camera «dollies» and booms;

• Lighting equipment (spotlights, converters, tripods);

• Editing equipment;

• Sound or image recording or reproducing apparatus (tape and video recorders and video reproducers, microphones, mixing consoles, loud speakers);

• Sound or image recording media, blank or recorded (credit titles, station call signs, music inserts, etc.);

• «Film rushes»;

• Operational accessories (clocks, stopwatches, compasses, microphones, mixing consoles, sound tapes, generating sets, transformers, batteries and accumulators, battery chargers, heating, air-conditioning and ventilating apparatus, etc.);

• Musical instruments, costumes, scenery and other stage properties, pedestals, make-up material, hairdryers.

B - Vehicles designed or specially adapted for the purposes specified above.

APPENDIX III

Other equipment

Illustrative list

A - Equipment for erection, testing, commissioning, checking, control, maintenance or repair of machinery, plant, means of transport, etc., such as:

• Tools;

• Measuring, checking or testing equipment and instruments (temperature, pressure, distance, height, surface, speed, etc.), including electrical instruments (voltmeters, ammeters, measuring cables, comparators, transformers, recording instruments, etc.) and jigs;

• Apparatus and equipment for taking photographs of machines and plant during or after erection;

• Apparatus for survey of ships.

B - Equipment necessary for businessmen, business efficiency consultants, productivity experts, accountants and members of similar professions, such as:

• Personal computers;

• Typewriters;

• Sound or image transmitting, recording or reproducing apparatus;

• Calculating instruments and apparatus.

C - Equipment necessary for experts undertaking topographical surveys or geophysical prospecting work, such as:

• Measuring instruments and apparatus;

• Drilling equipment;

• Transmission and communication equipment.

D - Equipment necessary for experts combating pollution.

E - Instruments and apparatus necessary for doctors, surgeons, veterinary surgeons midwives and members of similar professions.

F - Equipment necessary for archeologists, paleontologists, geographers, zoologists and other scientists.

G - Equipment necessary for entertainers, theatre companies and orchestras, including all articles used for public or private performances (musical instruments, costumes, scenery, etc.).

H - Equipment necessary for lecturers to illustrate their lectures.

I - Equipment necessary for photography trips (cameras of all kinds, cassettes, exposure meters, lenses, tripods, accumulators, battery belts, battery chargers, monitors, lighting equipment, fashion goods and accessories for models, etc.).

J - Vehicles designed or specially adapted for the purposes specified above, such as mobile inspection units, travelling workshops and travelling laboratories.

ANNEX B.3

Annex concerning containers, pallets, packings,samples and other goods imported in connection with a commercial operation

CHAPTER I

Definitions

Article 1

For the purposes of this annex, the term:

ii) Of a permanent character and accordingly strong enough to be suitable for repeated use;

iii) Specially designed to facilitate the carriage of goods, by one or more modes of transport, without intermediate reloading;

iv) Designed for ready handling, particularly when being transferred from one mode of transport to another;

vi) Having an internal volume of one cubic meter or more,

«Container» shall include the accessories and equipment of the container, appropriate for the type concerned, provided that such accessories and equipment are carried with the container. The term «container» shall not include vehicles, accessories or spare parts of vehicles, or packaging or pallets. «Remountable bodies» shall be regarded as containers;

CHAPTER II

Scope

Article 2

The following goods imported in connection with a commercial operation shall be granted temporary admission in accordance with article 2 of this Convention:

Article 3

The provisions of this annex do not affect the customs legislation of Contracting Parties in respect of the importation of goods carried in containers or packings, or on pallets.

Article 4

1 - For the facilities granted by this annex to apply:

• The journey shall bring the container by a reasonably direct route to, or nearer to, the place where export cargo is to be loaded or from where the container is to be exported empty;

• The container will be used only once in internal traffic before being re-exported;

2 - Each Contracting Party shall have the right to refuse temporary admission to containers, pallets or packings which have ' been the subject of purchase, hire-purchase, lease or a contract of a similar nature, concluded by a person established or resident in its territory.

Article 5

1 - Temporary admission of containers, pallets and packings shall be granted without a customs document or security being required.

2 - In lieu of a customs document and security for containers, the person to whom the temporary admission facilities are granted may be required to undertake in writing:

ii) To pay such import duties and taxes as may be required in cases where the conditions of temporary admission have not been fulfilled.

3 - In lieu of a customs document and security for pallets and packings, the person to whom the temporary admission facilities are granted may be required to produce to the customs authorities a written undertaking to re-export.

4 - Persons who regularly use the temporary admission procedure shall be authorized to provide a general undertaking.

Article 6

The period for the re-exportation of goods imported in connection with a commercial operation shall be at least six months from the date of temporary admission.

Article 7

Each Contracting Party shall have the right to enter a reservation, in accordance with article 29 of this Convention, in respect of:

of this annex.

Article 8

The appendices to this annex shall be construed to be an integral part thereof.

Article 9

Upon its entry into force this annex shall, in accordance with article 27 of this Convention, terminate and replace the following conventions and provisions:

• European Convention on Customs treatment of pallets used in international transport, Geneva, 9 December 1960;

• Customs Convention on the temporary importation of packings, Brussels, 6 October 1960;

• Articles 2-11 and annexes 1 (paragraphs 1 and 2) to 3 to the Customs Convention on Containers, Geneva, 2 December 1972;

• Articles 3, 5 and 6 [1, b), and 2] to the International Convention to facilitate the importation of commercial samples and advertising material, Geneva, 7 November 1952;

in relations between the Contracting Parties which have accepted this annex and are Contracting Parties to those Conventions.

APPENDIX I

List of goods under article 2, g)

1 - Goods imported for testing, checking, experiments or demonstrations.

2 - Goods for use in testing, checking, experiments or demonstrations.

3 - Printed and developed cinematographic film, positives and other recorded imagebearing media intended for viewing prior to their commercial use.

4 - Films, magnetic tapes, magnetized films and other sound- or image-bearing media intended for sound tracking, dubbing or reproduction.

5 - Data-carrying media, sent free of charge, for use in automatic data processing.

6 - Articles (including vehicles) which, by their nature, are unsuitable for any purpose other than advertising of specific articles or publicity for a specific purpose.

APPENDIX II

Provisions concerning the marking of containers

1 - The following information shall be durably marked in an appropriate and clearly visible place on containers:

2 - The country to which the container belongs may be shown either in full, or by means of the ISO Alpha-2 country code provided for in International Standard ISO 3166, or by the distinguishing sign used to indicate the country of registration of motor vehicles in international road traffic. Each country may subject the use of its name or distinguishing sign on the container to its national legislation. The identity of the owner or operator may be shown either by his full name or by an established identification symbols such as emblems or flags being excluded.

3 - For identification marks and numbers on containers to be considered durably marked when plastic film is used, compliance with the following specifications is required:

4 - The specifications for the use of plastic film for marking containers set out in paragraph 3 of this appendix do not exclude the possibility of using other durable marking methods.

ANNEX B.4

Annex concerning goods imported in connection with a manufacturing operation

CHAPTER I

Definition

Article 1

For the purposes of this annex, the term «goods imported in connection with a manufacturing operation» means:

1):

imported for use during a manufacturing process; and

2) «Replacement means of production» instruments, apparatus and machines made available to a customer by a supplier or repairer, pending the delivery or repair of similar goods.

CHAPTER II

Scope

Article 2

Goods imported in connection with a manufacturing operation shall be granted temporary admission in accordance with article 2 of this Convention.

CHAPTER III

Miscellaneous provisions

Article 3

For the facilities granted by this annex to apply:

Article 4

1 - The period for the re-exportation of the goods included in article 1, paragraph 1, of this annex shall be at least twelve months from the date of temporary admission.

2 - The period for the re-exportation of replacement means of production shall be at least six months from the date of temporary admission.

ANNEX B.5

Annex concerning goods imported for educational, scientific or cultural purposes

CHAPTER I

Definitions

Article 1

For the purposes of this annex:

ii) The term «welfare material for seafarers» means material for the pursuit of cultural, educational, recreational, religious or sporting activities by persons charged with duties in connection with the working or service at sea of a foreign ship engaged in international maritime traffic.

Illustrative lists of «pedagogic material», «welfare material for seafarers» and «any other goods imported in connection with educational, scientific or cultural activities» are reproduced at appendices I, II and III, respectively, to this annex.

CHAPTER II

Scope

Article 2

The following goods shall be granted temporary admission in accordance with article 2 of this Convention:

CHAPTER III

Miscellaneous provisions

Article 3

For the facilities granted by this annex to apply:

Article 4

Temporary admission of scientific equipment, pedagogic material and welfare material for seafarers used on board ships shall be granted without a customs document or security being required. Where necessary, an inventory together with a written undertaking to re-export, may be required for scientific equipment and pedagogic material.

Article 5

The period for the re-exportation of goods imported for educational, scientific or cultural purposes shall be at least twelve months from the date of temporary admission.

Article 6

Each Contracting Party shall have the right to enter a reservation, in accordance with article 29 of this Convention, in respect of the provisions of article 4 of this annex, insofar as they relate to scientific equipment and pedagogic material.

Article 7

The appendices to this annex shall be construed to be an integral part thereof.

Article 8

Upon its entry into force this annex shall, in accordance with article 27 of this Convention, terminate and replace the Customs Convention on welfare material for seafarers, Brussels, 1 December 1964, the Customs Convention on the temporary importation of scientific equipment, Brussels, 11 June 1968, and the Customs Convention on the temporary importation of pedagogic material, Brussels, 8 June 1970, in relations between the Contracting Parties which have accepted this annex and are Contracting Parties to those conventions.

APPENDIX I

Illustrative list

• Slide and filmstrip projectors;

• Cinematographic projectors;

• Back-projectors and episcopes;

• Magnetophones, magnetoscopes and video equipment;

• Closed circuit television equipment.

• Slides, filmstrips and microfilms;

• Cinematographic films;

• Sound recordings (magnetic tapes, discs);

• Videotapes.

• Bibliographic equipment and audiovisual material for libraries;

• Mobile libraries;

• Language laboratories;

• Simultaneous interpretation equipment;

• Programmed teaching machines, mechanical or electronic;

• Material specially designed for the educational or vocational training of handicapped persons.

• Wall charts, models, graphs, maps, plans, photographs and drawings;

• Instruments, apparatus and models designed for demonstrational purposes;

• Collections of items with visual or audio pedagogic information, prepared for the teaching of a subject (study kits);

• Instruments, apparatus, tools and machine-tools for learning a trade or craft;

• Equipment, including specially adapted or designed vehicles for use in relief operations, which is imported for the training of persons involved in relief operations.

APPENDIX II

Illustrative list

• Books of any kind;

• Correspondence courses;

• Newspapers, journals and periodicals;

• Pamphlets on welfare facilities in ports.

• Sound and image reproducing instruments;

• Tape-recorders;

• Radio sets, television sets;

• Cinematographic and other projectors;

• Recordings on tapes or discs (language courses, radio programmes, greetings, music and entertainment);

• Films, exposed and developed;

• Film slides;

• Videotapes.

• Sports wear;

• Balls;

• Rackets and nets;

• Deck games;

• Athletic equipment;

• Gymnastic equipment.

• Indoor games;

• Musical instruments;

• Material for amateur dramatics;

• Materials for painting, sculpture, woodwork and metalwork, carpet making, etc.

APPENDIX III

Illustrative list

Goods, such as:

1) Costumes and scenery items sent on loan free of charge to dramatic societies or theatres.

2) Music scores sent on loan free of charge to music theatres or orchestras.

ANNEX B.6

Annex concerning travellers personal effects and goods imported for sports purposes

CHAPTER I

Definitions

Article 1

For the purposes of this annex, the term:

CHAPTER II

Scope

Article 2

Personal effects and goods imported for sports purposes shall be granted temporary admission in accordance with article 2 of this Convention.

CHAPTER III

Miscellaneous provisions

Article 3

For the facilities granted by this annex to apply:

Article 4

1 - Temporary admission of personal effect shall be granted without a customs document or security being required. However, in the case of articles which involve a high amount of import duties and taxes, a customs document and security may be required.

2 - Whenever possible, an inventory of the goods together with a written undertaking to re-export, may be accepted for goods imported for sports purposes, in lieu of a customs document and security.

Article 5

1 - Personal effects shall be re-exported at the latest when the person who imported them leaves the territory of temporary admission.

2 - The period for the re-exportation of goods imported for sports purposes shall be at least twelve months from the date of temporary admission.

Article 6

The appendices to this annex shall be construed to be an integral part thereof.

Article 7

Upon its entry into force this annex shall, in accordance with article 27 of this Convention, terminate and replace the application of articles 2 and 5 of the Convention concerning customs facilities for touring, New York, 4 June 1954, in relations between the Contracting Parties which have accepted this annex and are Contracting Parties to that Convention.

APPENDIX I

Illustrative list

1 - Clothing.

2 - Toilet articles.

3 - Personal jewellery.

4 - Still and motion picture cameras together with a reasonable quantity of film and accessories therefor.

5 - Portable slide or film projectors and accessories therefor together with a reasonable quantity of slides or films.

6 - Video cameras and portable video recorders, with a reasonable quantity of tapes.

7 - Portable musical instruments.

8 - Portable gramophones with records.

9 - Portable sound recorders and reproducers (including dictating machines), with tapes.

10 - Portable radio receivers.

11 - Portable television sets.

12 - Portable typewriters.

13 - Portable calculators.

14 - Portable personal computers.

15 - Binoculars.

16 - Perambulators.

17 - Wheel-chairs for invalids.

18 - Sports equipment such as tents and other camping equipment, fishing equipment, climbing equipment, diving equipment, sporting firearms with ammunition, non-motorised bicycles, canoes or kayak less than 5.5 m long, skis, tennis rackets, surfboards, windsurfers, hang gliders and delta wings, golfing equipment.

19 - Portable dialysis and similar medical apparatus, and the disposable items imported for use therewith.

20 - Other articles clearly of a personal nature.

APPENDIX II

Illustrative list

A - Track and field equipment, such as:

• Hurdles;

• Javelins, discuses, poles, shots, hammers.

B - Ball game equipment, such as:

• Balls of any kind;

• Rackets, mallets, clubs, sticks and the like;

• Nets of any kind;

• Goalposts.

C - Winter sports equipment, such as:

• Skis and sticks;

• Skates;

• Bobsleighs;

• Curling equipment.

D - Sports wear, shoes, gloves, headgear, etc. of any kind.

E - Water sports equipment, such as:

• Canoes and kayaks;

• Sail and row boats, sails, oars and paddles;

• Surf boards and sails.

F - Motor vehicles and craft, such as:

• Cars;

• Motor bicycles;

• Motor boats.

G - Equipment for miscellaneous events, such as:

• Sports arms and ammunition;

• Non-motorised bicycles;

• Archer's bows and arrows;

• Fencing equipment;

• Gymnastics equipment;

• Compasses;

• Wrestling mats and tatamis;

• Weight-lifting equipment;

• Riding equipment, sulkies;

• Hang-gliders, delta wings, windsurfers;

• Climbing equipment;

• Music cassettes to accompany the performance.

H - Auxiliary equipment, such as:

• Measuring and score display equipment;

• Blood and urine test apparatus.

ANNEX B.7

Annex concerning tourist publicity material

CHAPTER I

Definition

Article 1

For the purposes of this annex the term «tourist publicity material» means goods imported for the purpose of encouraging the public to visit a foreign country, in particular in order to attend cultural, religious, touristic, sporting or professional meetings or demonstrations held there. An illustrative list of such material is reproduced at the appendix to this annex.

CHAPTER II

Scope

Article 2

Except for the material referred to in article 5 of this annex for which outright importation free of import duties and taxes shall be granted, tourist publicity material shall be granted temporary admission in accordance with article 2 of this Convention.

CHAPTER III

Miscellaneous provisions

Article 3

For the facilities granted by this annex to apply, tourist publicity material must be owned by a person established outside the territory of temporary admission, and must be imported in reasonable quantities in the light of its intended use.

Article 4

The period for the re-exportation of tourist publicity material shall be at least twelve months from the date of temporary admission.

Article 5

Outright importation free of import duties and taxes shall be granted for the following tourist publicity material:

Article 6

The appendix to this annex shall be construed to be an integral part thereof.

Article 7

Upon its entry into force this annex shall, in accordance with article 27 of this Convention terminate and replace the Additional Protocol to the Convention concerning Customs facilities for touring, relating to the importation of tourist publicity documents and material, New York, 4 June 1954, in relations between the Contracting Parties which have accepted this annex and are Contracting Parties to that Protocol.

APPENDIX

Illustrative list

1 - Material intended for display in the offices of the accredited representatives or correspondents appointed by the official national tourist agencies or in other places approved by the customs authorities of the territory of temporary admission: pictures and drawings, framed photographs and photographic enlargements, art books, paintings, engravings or lithographs, sculptures and tapestries and other similar works of art.

2 - Display material (show-cases, stands and similar articles), including electrical and mechanical equipment required for operating such display.

3 - Documentary films, records, tape recordings and other sound recordings intended for use in performances at which no charge is made, but excluding those whose subjects lend themselves to commercial advertising and those which are on general sale in the territory of temporary admission.

4 - A reasonable number of flags.

5 - Dioramas, scale models, lantern-slides, printing blocks, photographic negatives.

6 - Specimens, in reasonable numbers, of articles of national handicrafts, local costumes and similar articles of folklore.

ANNEX B.8

Annex concerning goods imported as frontier traffic

CHAPTER I

Definitions

Article 1

For the purposes of this annex:

• those carried by frontier zone inhabitants in the performance of their profession or trade (doctors, craftsmen, etc.);

• Personal or household effects of frontier zone inhabitants imported by them for repair, manufacture or processing;

• Equipment intended for working on land located within the frontier zone of the territory of temporary admission;

• Equipment owned by an official body, imported in connection with a relief operation (fire, floods, etc.);

CHAPTER II

Scope

Article 2

Goods imported as frontier traffic shall be granted temporary admission in accordance with article 2 of this Convention.

CHAPTER III

Miscellaneous provisions

Article 3

For the facilities granted by this annex to apply:

Article 4

1 - Temporary admission of goods imported as frontier traffic shall be granted without a customs document or security being required.

2 - Each Contracting Party may make the granting of temporary admission of goods imported as frontier traffic subject to the production of an inventory of the goods, together with a written undertaking to re-export.

3 - Temporary admission may also be granted on the basis of a simple entry in a register held by the customs office.

Article 5

1 - The period for the re-exportation of goods imported as frontier traffic shell be at least twelve months from the date of temporary admission.

2 - Equipment intended for working on land shall, however be re-exported once the work has been carried out.

ANNEX B.9

Annex concerning goods imported for humanitarian purposes

CHAPTER I

Definitions

Article 1

For the purposes of this annex:

CHAPTER II

Scope

Article 2

Goods imported for humanitarian purposes shall be granted temporary admission in accordance with article 2 of this Convention.

CHAPTER III

Miscellaneous provisions

Article 3

For the facilities granted by this annex to apply:

Article 4

1 - Whenever possible, an inventory of the goods together with a written undertaking to re-export, may be accepted for medical, surgical and laboratory equipment, in lieu of a customs document and security.

2 - Temporary admission of relief consign meets shall be granted without a custom document or security being required. However, the customs authorities may require an inventory of the goods, together with a written undertaking to re-export.

Article 5

1 - The period for the re-exportation of medical, surgical and laboratory equipment shall be determined in accordance with the needs.

2 - The period for the re-exportation of relief consignments shall be at least twelve months from the date of temporary admission.

ANNEX C

Annex concerning means of transport

CHAPTER I

Definitions

Article 1

For the purposes of this annex:

CHAPTER II

Scope

Article 2

The following goods shall be granted temporary admission in accordance with article 2 of this Convention:

Article 3

Routine maintenance operations and repairs to the means of transport which have become necessary during the journey to or within the territory of temporary admission and which are carried out during the period of temporary admission, shall not be deemed to involve a change within the meaning of article 1, paragraph a), of this Convention.

Article 4

The fuel contained in the normal tanks of the means of transport temporarily admited as well as lubrication oils for the normal use of such means of transport shall be admitted without payment of import duties and taxes and without application of import prohibitions or restrictions.

2 - In the case of motor road vehicles for commercial use, each Contracting Party shall have the right, however, to fix maximum quantities for the fuel which can be admitted into its territory free of import duties and taxes and without application of import prohibitions or restrictions in the normal tanks of such temporarily admitted motor road vehicles.

CHAPTER III

Miscellaneous provisions

Article 5

For the facilities granted by this annex to apply:

Article 6

Temporary admission of means of transport shall be granted without a customs document or security being required.

Article 7

Notwithstanding the provisions of article 5 of this annex:

Article 8

Each Contracting Party shall have the right to deny the benefit of temporary admission to, or to withdraw that benefit from:

Article 9

1 - Means of transport for commercial use shall be re-exported once the transport operations for which they were imported have been completed.