Annex C Annex concerning means of transport

a)

the term ‘means of transport’ means:

any vessel (including lighters and barges, whether or not shipborne, and hydrofoils), hovercraft, aircraft, motor road vehicles (including cycles with engines, trailers, semi-trailers and combinations of vehicles) and railway rolling stock; together with their normal spare parts, accessories and equipment carried on board means of transport (including special equipment for the loading, unloading, handling and protection of cargo);

b)

the term ‘commercial use’ means:

the transport of persons for remuneration or the industrial or commercial transport of goods, whether or not for remuneration;

c)

the term ‘private use’ means:

the transport exclusively for personal use by the person concerned excluding commercial use;

d)

the term ‘internal traffic’ means:

the carriage of persons or goods picked up or loaded in the territory of temporary admission for setting down or unloading at a place within the same territory;

e)

the term ‘normal tanks’ means:

the tanks designed by the manufacturer for all means of transport of the same type as the means of transport in question and whose permanent fitting enables a fuel to be used directly, both for the purpose of propulsion and, where appropriate, for the operation, during transport, of refrigeration systems and other systems. Tanks fitted to means of transport designed for direct use of other types of fuel and tanks fitted to the other systems with which the means of transport may be equiped shall also be considered to be normal tanks.

a)

means of transport for commercial use or for private use;

b)

spare parts and equipment imported for the repair of a means of transport already temporarily admitted. Replaced parts and equipment which are not re-exported shall be liable to import duties and taxes except where they are disposed of as provided for in Article 14 of this Convention.

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a)

means of transport for commercial use must be registered in a territory other than that of temporary admission, in the name of a person established or resident in a territory other than that of temporary admission, and be imported and use by persons operating from such a territory;

b)

means of transport for private use must be registered in a territory other than that of temporary admission, in the name of a person established or resident in a territory other than that of temporary admission, and be imported and used by persons resident in such a territory.

a)

means of transport for commercial use may be used by third persons, even if established or resident in the territory of temporary admission, who are duly authorized by the persons granted temporary admission and who operate on their behalf;

b)

means of transport for private use may be used by third persons who are duly authorized by the persons granted temporary admission. Each Contracting Party may permit the use by a person resident in its territory, in particular, where the means of transport is used on behalf and on the instructions of the person granted temporary admission.

a)

means of transport for commercial use which are used in internal traffic;

b)

means of transport for private use which are used for commercial use in internal traffic;

c)

means of transport which are hired after importation or, if imported on hire, are re-hired or sublet for a purpose other than immediate re-exportation.

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a)

Article 2, subparagraph (a), insofar as it relates to temporary admission for commercial use, of motor road vehicles and railway rolling stock;

b)

Article 6, insofar as it relates to motor road vehicles for commercial use and to means of transport for private use;

c)

Article 9, paragraph 2;

of this Annex.