Common use of Documentation and Procedures Clause in Contracts

Documentation and Procedures. (a) The Contracting Parties recognize that documentation and procedures represent important time and cost elements affecting the efficiency of transit operations and agree to keep these costs and delays to a minimum. (b) The Contracting Parties therefore undertake to: (i) limit the number of documents and reduce to the extent possible, procedures and formalities required for cross-border traffic; (ii) provide English translation of all documents used for cross-border traffic; (iii) align their documents to the United Nations layout key for trade documents; (iv) harmonize, as far as possible, commodity codes and descriptions with those commonly used in cross-border trade, as set out in Annex 15; (v) review periodically the need for and usefulness of all documents and procedures required for cross-border traffic; (vi) eliminate any documents and formal requirements that are superfluous or do not serve any particular purpose; (vii) undertake to conform all measurements with SI Units (the International System of Modem Metric Units), by 2005; and (viii) give due advance notice to the other Contracting Parties of any additional requirement or modification in prescribed documentation and procedures to be introduced regarding cross-border traffic.