"international standards" means standards that are adopted by
international standardising or standards organisations made available to the
public;
"Judge" means a Judge of the Court serving on the First Instance Division
or the Appellate Division;
"judgment" shall where appropriate include a ruling, an opinion, an order,
a directive or a decree of the Court;
"Minister" in relation to a Partner State, means a person appointed as a
Minister of the Government of that Partner State and any other person, however
entitled, who, in accordance with any law of that Partner State, acts as or
performs the functions of a Minister in that State;
"multimodal transport" means the transport of goods and services from
one point to another by two or more modes of transport on the basis of a single
contract issued by the person organising such services and while such person
assumes responsibility for the execution of the whole operation and also includes
any other similar equipment or facility which may hereafter be used;
"multimodal transport facilities" includes items such as heavy lift
swinging devices, twin deck cranes, gantry cranes, elevators, large carriers,
mechanised storage, low loaders, access facilities, low-profile straddle carriers,
mobile cranes, container gantry cranes, side loaders, heavy duty forklifts, heavy
duty tractors, heavy duty trailers, portable ramps, flat wagons (flats) for
containers, low tare special user wagons and trucks for containers, pallets, webslings for pre-slung cargoes for different commodities and any other similar
equipment or facility which may hereafter be used."
“National Assemblies” with its grammatical variation and cognate
expression means the national legislatures however designated of the Partner
States;
"non-tariff barriers" means administrative and technical requirements
imposed by a Partner State in the movement of goods;
"organs of the Community" means the organs of the Community
established by Article 9 of this Treaty;
"other charges of equivalent effect" means any tax, surtax, levy or charge
imposed on imports and not on like locally produced products but does not
include fees and similar charges commensurate with the cost of services
rendered;
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