Common use of Cooperation Agreements Clause in Contracts

Cooperation Agreements. (1) In order to perform cross-border cooperation, cooperation agreements shall be concluded in accordance with this Framework Agreement. (2) In compliance with the national definition of responsibilities and the applicable national law of the Contracting Party concerned, the following persons shall be entitled to conclude cooperation agreements: - In the Republic of Austria: the governor of the region, - In Hungary: the Minister responsible for healthcare (3) The cross-border rescue co-operation under this Framework Agreement shall be established by the competent rescue control centre submitting a request for co-operation to the rescue control centre of the other Contracting Party and the competent rescue control centre of the other Contracting Party shall accept the request for the co-operation and dispatch rescue personnel to the place of the deployment. (4) Cooperation agreements shall provide for the conditions and procedures for cross-border ambulance service cooperation, in particular in the following areas: 1. Organizing an ambulance service in the framework of cross-border cooperation; 2. Deployment of rescue personnel of one Contracting Party in the national territory of the other Contracting Party; 3. The use of ambulances of one Contracting Party in the national territory of the other Contracting Party; 4. Identification of the institution providing appropriate healthcare in accordance with Article 1 (2). If the patient’s state of health allows and the patient resides in the territory of one of the Contracting Parties at the time of the deployment of the ambulance staff, that patient shall normally be transported to the territory of that Contracting Party; 5. Procedures for the transfer and admission of a patient to a healthcare institution shall be set out and followed in order to ensure that the patient receives full care without undue delay; 6. Criteria for the evaluation and control of the quality and safety of rescue work and procedures for the documentation, statistical recording and evaluation of cross- border cooperation under this Framework Agreement; 7. Invoicing and remuneration for cross-border cooperation in accordance with Article 10 of this Framework Agreement; 8. Validity of liability insurance under Article 11 of this Framework Agreement; 9. Procedures for communication between the responsible rescue control centres of the Contracting Parties, between the rescue personnel and the rescue control centre and between the members of the rescue personnel; 10. Rules and procedures if the patient dies during the deployment of the rescue personnel.