PREAMBLE
The High Contracting Parties
RECALLING the provisions of Article 14 of this Trade Protocol which requires the simplification and
harmonisation of trade documentation and procedures;
RECOGNISING that cumbersome trade documentation and procedures can be a barrier to intra
community trade in goods and services;
AWARE of the need to adopt internationally accepted standards and guidelines for facilitating trade
documentation and procedures;
HEREBY AGREE as follows,
ARTICLE 1
DEFINITIONS
“Document”
means paper and or other medium designed to carry and actually carrying data
or information, and includes magnetic tapes and risks, and microfilm;
“Trade facilitation”
means the coordination and rationalisation of trade procedures and documents
relating to the movement of goods in international trade from the place of
consignment to the destination;
“Trade procedures”
means activities relating to the collection, presentation, processing and
dissemination of data and information concerning all activities constituting
international trade;
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