Article
1
Definitions
For the purposes of this Agreement
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(a)
“vehicle” means any motor vehicle or trailer; this term includes any combination of vehicles;
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(b)
“motor vehicle” means any self-propelled road vehicle which is normally used for carrying persons or goods by road or for drawing, on the road, vehicles used for the carriage of persons or goods; this term does not include agricultural tractors;
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(c)
“trailer” means any vehicle designed to be drawn by a motor vehicle and includes semi-trailers;
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(d)
“semi-trailer” means any trailer designed to be coupled to a motor vehicle in such a way that part of it rests on the motor vehicle and that a substantial part of its weight and of the weight of its load is borne by the motor vehicle;
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(e)
“combination of vehicles” means coupled vehicles which travel on the road as a unit;
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(f)
“permissible maximum weight” means the maximum weight of the laden vehicle declared permissible by the competent authority of the State in which the vehicle is registered;
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(g)
‘carriage by road’ means any journey made on roads open to the public of a vehicle, whether laden or not, used for the carriage of passengers or goods;
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(h)
“international road transport” (“international carriage by road”) means road transport which involves the crossing of at least one frontier;
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(i)
‘regular services’ means services which provide for the carriage of passengers at specified intervals along specified routes, passengers being taken up and set down at predetermined stopping points.
Rules governing the operations of services or documents taking the place thereof, approved by the competent authorities of Contracting Parties and published by the carrier before coming into operation, shall specify the conditions of carriage and in particular the frequency of services, timetables, faretables and the obligation to accept passengers for carriage, in so far as such conditions are not prescribed by any law or regulation.
Services by whomsoever organized, which provide for the carriage of specified categories of passengers to the exclusion of other passengers, in so far as such services are operated under the conditions specified in the first subparagraph of this definition, shall be deemed to be regular services. Such services, in particular those providing for the carriage of workers to and from their place of work or of schoolchildren to and from school, are hereinafter called ‘special regular services’;
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(j)
“driver” means any person, whether wage-earning or not, who drives the vehicle even for a short period, or who is carried on the vehicle in order to be available for driving if necessary;
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(k)
“crew member” means the driver or either of the following, whether wage-earning or not
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(i)
a driver's mate, i.e. any person accompanying the driver in order to assist him in certain manoeuvres and habitually taking an effective part in the transport operations, though not a driver in the sense of paragraph (j) of this article;
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(ii)
a conductor, i.e. any person who accompanies the driver of a vehicle engaged in the carriage of passengers and is responsible in particular for the issue or checking of tickets or other documents entitling passengers to travel on the vehicle;
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(i)
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(l)
‘week’ means the period between 0000 hours on Monday and 2400 hours on Sunday;
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(m)
‘rest’ means any uninterrupted period of at least one hour during which the driver may freely dispose of his time.