Seamen requiring a visa who are passing through Schengen territory in order to sign on a vessel, leave their service or join another vessel should, in principle, be in possession of a standard Schengen visa.

The Parties shall support the widest possible dissemination of information which they have the right to disclose, either in their possession or available to them, and which is either developed jointly or intended to be provided or exchanged pursuant to this Agreement, subject to the need to protect undisclosed information and the need to protect intellectual property arising under this Agreement.