187/1964.



The DECREE



Minister of Foreign Affairs



of 8 June. September 1964



on the agreement on the establishment and operation of the joint wagon fleet



21 June. December 1963 was in Bucharest signed an agreement on the establishment and

the operation of the joint Park trucks between the Governments of the Bulgarian folk

Republic, the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, the Hungarian people's

Republic, the German Democratic Republic, the Polish people's Republic,

The Romanian people's Republic and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.



Agreement entered into force-on the basis of its article XIV-after the expiry of

30 days from the date on which the last instrument of approval of the agreement deposited with the

the Government of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, as depositary of the

The agreement, i.e.,. on the day of 20. August 1964.



Czech translation of the agreement shall be published at the same time.



David v.r.



Agreement for the establishment and operation of the joint wagon fleet



The Government of the people's Republic of Bulgaria, the Hungarian people's Republic, German

Democratic Republic, the Polish people's Republic, Romanian folk

Republic, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Czechoslovakia

Socialist Republic,



considering the constant growth of rail transport costs between the

countries, and building upon the recommendations of the Council for mutual economic institutions

help on better use of freight wagons and increase of economy

transport,



have decided to conclude this agreement:



Article. (I)



1. To create the necessary conditions for reducing empty runs

freight wagons in international and national traffic, accelerated circulation and

increased economic efficiency of trucks, as well as

diminished density of transport and better use of international rail

lines, border and marshalling stations, agreed to by the Contracting Parties

create a common park trucks, called hereinafter referred to as "the common

Park ".



2. the common park will be created from two to four-axle trucks

cars (indoor and open) about 1435 mm gauge.



3. Type and number of cars, pasted into a common Park Contracting

the parties, which have a rail gauge of 1435 mm, must conform to the

the real need for international shipments on their railways with

taking into account the use of these cars in national transport.



4. the number of cars, which is inserted into the joint Soviet Park

Socialist Republics must approximate the amount of cars

the joint Park, which are daily on the railways of the USSR.



Article II



1. for the adjudication of the issues associated with the creation and operation of

the joint park under this Agreement shall be established by the Council of common Park

trucks, hereinafter referred to as "the Council".



2. The Council shall consist of the authorised representatives of all Contracting Parties, and that after

one for each side. The Council shall hold its meetings as necessary, at least

However, once a year.



3. the Council is empowered to discuss all issues related to the implementation of

This agreement and pass resolutions about them. The Council adopts a resolution only with the consent of

representatives of all Contracting Parties.



4. the Council approved the rules of procedure of its activity.



Article. (III)



1. To ensure that, in order to fulfill the resolution of the Council and carry out the normal

work related to the operation of the joint Park, as well as to monitor

operation of international freight and passenger trains, the activities of the

border stations and to the implementation of approved vyrovnávkových measures to

providing assistance to the parties in ensuring railway transportation

the export and import of goods, the Executive Council has a permanent device-bureaucracy, but

common wagon fleet, referred to hereinafter referred to as "bureaucracy, but" that has

Headquarters in the capital of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic in Prague.



2. Device constitute the Bureau the Bureau Director, his Deputy, the necessary number of

experts and technical and ancillary staff.



3. the Director of the Bureau and his Deputy are appointed and dismissed by the Council.

Other staff of the Centre shall be appointed and dismissed by the Director of the Centre in the

accordance with the Statute of the Centre, while the professionals are appointed and

dismissed as Director of the Bureau, with the approval of representatives of the countries in the Council.



4. Activities of the Bureau manages the Director of the Bureau, which is responsible to the Council.



5. In the performance of his official duties he performs, the Director of the Centre, its

the Deputy and the professional workers as international officials.



6. the bureaucracy, but it is a legal person.



Bureaucracy, but the Bureau and officials shall enjoy the privileges and immunities which the Council shall enjoy the

mutual economic assistance and its functionaries in accordance with article II. and points

2, 4 and 5 of article V of the Convention on legal capacity, privileges and immunities

The Council for mutual economic assistance. In doing so, the Director of the Bureau, has the right and is

obliged to cancel the immunity granted to any officials of the Centre in the

cases in which, in his opinion, the immunity is preventing the administration of Justice

and can she give up without detriment to the interests of the Centre. As for the Director of the Centre and

his Deputy, the right to waive the immunity of the Council.



7. the functions and powers of the Bureau and its cast, conditions of employment and other issues

associated with the activities of the Bureau are determined by the Statute of the Centre approved by the Council.



8. the costs associated with maintenance of the Centre shall be borne by the railways of the Contracting Parties

equally.



Article IV



1. the Contracting Parties agree that cars that are inserted into the

the joint Park, were the standard cars. For a transitional period, the necessary

for the implementation of the standardization of the cars, however, admits in the common Park

used cars the corresponding special technical for this period

the requirements, which lays down the rules for the operation of the common Park

trucks, hereinafter referred to as "the rules of the OPW.



2. The rules of the OPW provides in addition to the technical conditions which must

match cars to Park, also in common use

These cars, determine the accounting methods the State Railways of the Contracting Parties in

the common Park, the procedure for the classification of vehicles in a joint Park and when

their eviction from the Park, the way Bill car

the joint Park between railways and other issues associated with the operation

the joint Park. While the use of cars, which is inserted into the

the common Park of the USSR, taking into account the difference in rail gauge

The USSR and the other Contracting Parties.



3. The Council shall approve the rules of the OPW.



4. The number and the kind of cars that the railways of the Contracting Parties in

the common Park, the Council shall periodically according to the provisions of point 3 and 4

Article I of this agreement.



Article. In



1. Cars embedded in common Park remains the property of the Contracting

the party, which is inserted. Cars embedded in common Park, in addition to

the ownership of the railway marks indicate the special character.



2. the common Park used cars to the railways of the Contracting Parties

mainly in international transport operations between these countries. These cars may be

used also in the national transport of the Contracting Parties and in the transport

countries that are not members of this agreement.



3. In the case of loading of cars common rail Park, one of the Contracting

the parties, specifying on the rail of a country which is not a member of this Agreement,

the Court of the State of the railways of this party is appropriately reduced.



4. All the conditions under which the cars will be sent to the joint Park

the railways of countries which are not members of this agreement are determined by the Rules

The OPW.



Čl.VI



1. the Contracting Parties agree that the necessary maintenance and repairs of cars

the joint Park were carried away by the parties that these cars

uses.



2. The periodic repair of cars common Park performs railroad Contracting

the parties that these cars belong, within the deadlines foreseen uniform

dates of planned repairs, as determined by the rules of the OPW. However, on a transitional

the time may be used and the terms of the planned repairs, valid on the

the respective railways.



3. To perform the periodic repair of cars common Park submitted by

the railroad of the Contracting Party, which belongs to the cars ran out of this

rail at the latest within the time limit specified for periodic repair.



4. the conditions and the type of repair, the way to provide spare parts for repair

cars, railways of the Contracting Parties, which use cars common Park

as well as the way of sending cars to do Park on the periodic repair

determine the rules of the OPW.



Article. (VII)



For the loss of, damage to, requiring a patch as in the periodic repair

or damage, for which the common car park must be depreciated from

inventory of the Park's ownership of the railroad, the Contracting Parties shall be borne by the railways,

that this car use, liability under the rules of the OPW.



Article. (VIII)



1. the Contracting Parties use the Rail cars of the joint Park, free of charge,

If the number of vehicles does not exceed the financial status.



2. the State of the railways of the Contracting Parties is determined by

the kind of cars, on the basis of the actual contribution of the fleet

the parties to the joint Park and from deviations from this deposit, which are

listed in the rules of the OPW. The financial status of the bureaucracy, but determined.



3. Vyrovnávku State cars common Park between the railways of the Contracting

the parties carried out by the bureaucracy, but the number and types of vehicles within the meaning of the rules of the OPW.



4. For the use of cars over the financial status of the pay of the railroad of the Contracting Parties

According to calculations by the Bureau fee for each car and the day according to the rules of the OPW in the

benefit of the railways, which have a number of cars common park under accounting

status. The amount of the rates for each car and the date fixed by the Council.



5. If the railroad some of the Contracting Parties requests the bureaucracy, but the addition of

your Park on the financial status of the bureaucracy, but it immediately, will report to those railways,

where the number of cars exceeds the financial status of the joint Park, as well as

transit railways and agreed with them to surrender the necessary number of cars

so that within two days from the date of the notification from the beginning (including byrem

the following day) was a joint park on the railway, which it has requested,

added from neighbouring railways.



6. The railways of the Contracting Parties, which failed to meet the guidelines of the Centre, will pay for

the use of cars, which should deliver, progresívně increasing rate

According to the length of the detention of cars, different in the first and second half of the year. The amount of the

These rates determine the rules of the OPW.



7. If the railroad some of the Contracting Parties did not accept the diploma

her cars common Park, the railway is exempted from submitting

paying for the number of cars and the days under the rules of the OPW.



8. the determination of the actual state and the registration of cars common Park

railways of the Contracting Parties, as well as the Bill between them


performs a bureaucracy, but under the rules of the OPW.



Article. (IX)



1. mutual assistance cars provides the following agreement between the railways

interested Contracting Parties according to the options in the common

Park.



2. A formal agreement between the railways of stakeholders, for

the provision of assistance in joint Park, the railroad

the relevant parties, bureaucracy, but immediately. In this case, the Court of the State of the cars

the joint park be increased accordingly for the railways, which have received help, and

reduces the railways, which have provided it.



3. the conditions for the provision of mutual assistance cars shall be negotiated between the

railways of the interested parties.



Article. X



The official language of the Council and the Bureau is the language of Russian. All the documents on the

meetings of the Council and on the activities of the Centre shall be drawn up in the language of the rules of procedure.



Article. XI



This agreement is concluded for an unlimited period of time. Any Contracting Party may

denounce the fact that inform the depositary of the agreement termination

at least 6 months before the end of the current calendar year. The notice of

denunciation shall enter into force from 1 January. January of next year.



Article. XII



To this agreement may accede at the consent of all the Contracting Parties, other

the country that shall transfer to the depositary of its instrument of accession.



Article. XIII



The agreement may be amended or supplemented at any time with the consent of all the

of the Contracting Parties. Proposals for amendments or additions to the Agreement shall be sent

the interested party the depositary of the agreement, which arranges the measures

related to the approval of these proposals by the Contracting Parties.



Article. XIV



This agreement is subject to approval by the Government of each of the Contracting Parties.



Agreement enters into force after the expiry of 30 days from the date when it was last

the instrument of approval of the agreement deposited with the depositary, the depositary

It shall inform the Contracting Parties.



The agreement was drawn up in the Russian language, in a single copy and shall be cast

to the custody of the Government of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, which will be

to perform the functions of depositary of this agreement.



The Government of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic shall transmit certified copies of the

The agreement to all Contracting Parties.



On the evidence of the authorised representatives of the parties have signed this agreement.



Drawn up in Bucharest on 21. December 1963.