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Action Plan for
the Year 2000 on Transportation
On overland
transportation (*):
1. Approval
of Community Draft Provisions establishing the
violations and the system of punishments for
authorized transporters in international
passenger transportation by road and for
unauthorized transporters or carriers in
international passenger or cargo
transportation by road.
2. Draft
Community Provision regulating the
International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by
Road.
3. Review of
the operation and support for the CENAFs and/or
CEBAFs.
4.
Formulation of a Community provision
regulating the complementary parcel post
service.
5.
Evaluation of the Andean Civil Liability
Insurance Policy.
6. Analysis
of the joint CAN-CAF study on the problem of
overland transportation at border crossings
and policy proposals for its solution.
7. Program
of training and dissemination of Andean
provisions for officials and the other actors
involved in international road transportation
at the national borders and other sites where
this is needed.
8. Follow-up
on the implementation of Decisions 398 and 399
and their regulatory and complementary
provisions.
9. Actions
to promote the coordination of provisions of
the Andean Community and Southern Cone
countries on the carriage of goods by road.
Definition of the Andean position.
10. Study on
"the "Survey and Diagnosis of International
Transportation and its Infrastructure in South
America" as regards Subregional overland
transportation, at the request of LAIA and of
the Conference of South American Ministers of
Transportation and Public Works.
(*)
Coordinated and approved at the II Special
Meeting of the Andean Committee of Overland
Transportation Authorities.
Development of merchant marine and port
activity (*)
1.
Comprehensive review of the application of
Decisions 288 and 314 with regard to the
freedom of access to cargoes and policies for
the development of the Merchant Marine; and
Resolution 422 on the Principle of Reciprocity,
which covers methodology and the adoption of
actions.
2.
Organization and development, by the General
Secretariat, of the III Andean Port Colloquium
on the port situation in the region and the
coverage of the modernization and
privatization efforts.
3. Actions
to publicize Community shipping activity (Web
page).
4. Adoption
of a statistical data system on ocean shipping
and port activity in the Andean Community,
taking into account the existing systems.
5. Support
for the final processing of the Draft Decision
on Shipping Guarantees (Ship mortgages and
Privilegios Marítimos, or priorities of
creditors’ interests resulting from shipping
or navigation loans) and Preventive Embargoes
of Ships.
6.
Maintenance of support to competent Bolivian
authorities on the Bolivian Registry of Ships.
(*)
Coordinated and approved at the VIII Regular
Meeting of the Andean Committee of Shipping
Authorities (August 31 to September 1, 1999).
On air
transportation (*)
1. Overall
Evaluation of the Process of Integration of
Subregional Air Transportation in order to:
2. Study, in
the context of the evaluation of Subregional
air transportation, of the problems in
avoiding unfair competition.
3. Follow-up
and adoption of a joint stance in regard to
the possible discussion and negotiation of air
transportation within the FTAA and the WTO.
4. Study of
intra-regional air transportation services to
and from points not served regularly.
5.
Development and promotion of border
transportation by air between Member Countries
in the context of Andean integration.
6.
Boosting
of the adoption of a common system for
importing aircraft and spare airplane parts
and pieces, accessories and equipment.
7.
Actions geared toward
publicizing the aeronautical activity (Web
page).
(*)
Coordinated and approved at the VII and VIII
Regular Meetings of the Andean Committee of
Aeronautical Authorities (March 15-16, 1999
and August 31- September 1, 1999, respectively).
On
Multimodal Transportation (*)
1. To secure
the approval of the Andean Document on
International Multimodal Transportation (DATMI)
by the International Chamber of Commerce
(ICC).
2. To
participate in the information and training
activities on international multimodal
transportation in the Subregion in order to
boost its utilization.
3. To foster
the signing of transborder agreements
involving the use of two or more modes of
transportation, including the utilization of
Subregional ports, that would make it possible
to increase the use of international
multimodal transportation to offset the
problems at border crossings and would open up
a new option for contributing to regional
trade.
4. As a
contribution to the institution of
international multimodal transportation and
the development of river shipping in the
Subregion, to promote the study of the
commercial use of the Andean river system, an
important means of transportation for
consolidating the region’s physical
integration.
(*) Coordinated
with the shipping and overland transportation
authorities.
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