"Non-Member State"
means a state not party to the Treaty;
"Protocol"
means this instrument of implementation of the Treaty and includes any annex,
amendment or extension thereof which form an integral part of this Protocol;
"Railway Route Management Groups"
means the groups referred to in Article 7.8 of this Protocol;
"Region" means the geographical territory of the Member States of the SADC;
"Regional Trunk Road Network"
means the network of regional trunk roads providing access to major centres of
population and economic activity contemplated in Article 4.3 of this Protocol;
"Road infrastructure"
means roads, bridges and road furniture;
"Road traffic"
means the flow of traffic and interaction between pedestrians, drivers and vehicles on the
road network;
"Road traffic quality management" means the control and management of road traffic in
order to effect qualitative road traffic operations resulting in order, discipline and safety
on the road network;
"Road transport"
means the conveyance of passengers and freight on the road network between origins
and destinations by means of road transport vehicles;
"road transport management"
means the control and management of road transport to ensure that such transport is
undertaken in the most efficient and economic manner to the satisfaction of the users
thereof;
"Road Transport Route Management Groups"
means the groups referred to in Article 5.6 of this Protocol;
"SATCC" means the commission referred to in Article 13.3 and established by Article 9 of
the Treaty;
"SATCC-TU"
means the Technical Unit supporting the functions of SATCC referred to in Article 13.9 of
this Protocol;
"Secretariat" means the SADC Secretariat established by Article 9 of the Treaty;
"Service provider" means the public or private sector provider of a transport,
communications or meteorology facility and/or operational service;
"Sub-sectoral committee"
means a committee referred to in Article 13.6 of this Protocol;
"Treaty" means the Treaty establishing the Southern African Development Community;
and