(national flag)

.1 control procedures for national flag ships;

The flag of Slovenia is the white-blue-red Slovene national flag with the coat-of-arms of Slovenia.

An aircraft registered in the Republic of Slovenia at the time of this Act taking effect may carry the Slovene national flag irrespective of the provisions of Article 21 of this Act.

The use of the coat-of-arms, the flag, and the national anthem shall be provided by law.

If vessel of one of the Contracting parties castaway, gets stranded, tuns aground or suffers any other accident alongside the coast of the other Contracting party, the competent authorities of that party shall grant the protection, aid and co-operation to the passengers, crew, the vessel itself and its cargo to the same extent, as they afford to the vessel flying its national flag.

ii) majority ownership by non-EU residents of a Slovenian flag maritime vessel, unless the operator is an EU national;

majority ownership by non-EU residents of a Slovenian flag maritime vessel, unless the operator is a Slovenian or other EU national.

(iv) to ensure that vessels flying its flag do not conduct unauthorised fishing within areas under the national jurisdiction of other States;

A State Party that has reasonable grounds to suspect that a vessel that is flying its flag or claiming its registry, that is without nationality or that, though flying a foreign flag or refusing to show a flag, is in reality of the nationality of the State Party concerned is engaged in the smuggling of migrants by sea may request the assistance of other States Parties in suppressing the use of the vessel for that purpose.

(4) The Centre shall be indicated in the languages of the Contracting Parties and shall be marked with the flags and the national coat-of-arms of the Contracting Parties.

The inspecting State and the flag State and, as appropriate, the port State shall take all necessary steps to ensure the well-being of the crew regardless of their nationality.

a) privileges to carry out coastal shipping under own flag, dredging, towage and pilot services reserved for shipping companies or other companies and nationals of the State of this Contracting Party.

The question of recruitment of seamen having the nationality of third States for the crews of vessels flying the flag of a Member State of the Union is governed by Union law and national legislation and practice.

Accordingly when a national, or a vessel flying the flag of a State Party, discovers or intends to engage in activities directed at underwater cultural heritage located in the Area, that State Party shall require its national, or the master of the vessel, to report such discovery or activity to it.

(c) establishment of a national record of fishing vessels authorised to fish on the high seas and provision of access to the information contained in that record on request by directly interested States, taking into account any national laws of the flag State regarding the release of such information;

States Parties shall take all practicable measures to ensure that their nationals and vessels flying their flag do not engage in any activity directed at underwater cultural heritage in a manner not in conformity with this Convention.

(a) a State Party shall require that when its national, or a vessel flying its flag, discovers or intends to engage in activities directed at underwater cultural heritage located in its exclusive economic zone or on its continental shelf, the national or the master of the vessel shall report such discovery or activity to it;

(ii) the implementation of national observer programmes and subregional and regional observer programmes in which the flag State is a participant, including requirements for such vessels to permit access by observers from other States to carry out the functions agreed under the programmes,

A State shall ensure that vessels flying its flag sends to its national fisheries administration and, where agreed, to the relevant subregional or regional fisheries management organisation or arrangement, logbook-data on catch and effort, including data on fishing operations on the high seas, at sufficiently frequent intervals to meet national requirements and regional and international obligations.

Where the intervening State has reasonable grounds to suspect that a vessel, which is flying the flag or displaying the marks of registry of another Party or bears any other indications of nationality of the vessel, is engaged in or being used for the commission of a relevant offence, the intervening State may request the authorisation of the flag State to stop and board the vessel in waters beyond the territorial sea of any Party, and to take some or all of the other actions specified in this Agreement.

For the purposes of applying this Agreement, each Party shall take such measures as may be necessary to establish its jurisdiction over the relevant offences committed on board a vessel flying the flag or displaying the marks of registry or bearing any other indication of nationality of any other Party to this Agreement.

Convinced that the vulnerability of cetaceans to such threats warrants the implementation of specific conservation measures, where they do not already exist, by States or regional economic integration organizations that exercise sovereignty and/or jurisdiction over any part of their range, and by States, flag vessels of which are engaged outside national jurisdictional limits in activities that may affect the conservation of cetaceans;

Each State may, at the time of signature or when depositing its instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession, by declaration addressed to the Secretary General of the Council of Europe declare that, when acting as an intervening State, it may subject its intervention to the condition that persons having its nationality who are surrendered to the flag State under Article 15 and there convicted of a relevant offence, shall have the possibility to be transferred to the intervening State to serve the sentence imposed.

This Article applies mutatis mutandis to boarding and inspection by a State Party which is a member of a subregional or regional fisheries management organisation or a participant in a subregional or regional fisheries management arrangement and which has clear grounds for believing that a fishing vessel flying the flag of another State Party has engaged in any activity contrary to relevant conservation and management measures referred to in paragraph 1 in the high seas area covered by such organisation or arrangement, and such vessel has subsequently, during the same fishing trip, entered into an area under the national jurisdiction of the inspecting State.

The use of the coat-of-arms, the flag and the national anthem shall be provided by law.

where possible, their national legislation requires owners of vessels flying their flag that are included in the list indicated in paragraph 1 to be nationals of a Member State.

A maximum guaranteed quantity of 80 823 tonnes per marketing year shall be established for long flax fibre and apportioned among all the Member States as national guaranteed quantities.

The port Member State shall notify the flag State of its findings and cooperate with it in carrying out an investigation into the alleged breach and, where appropriate, applying the penalties provided for under national law.

Institut national d'assurance maladie-invalidité, Bruxelles - Rijksinstituut voor ziekte-en invaliditeitsverzekering, Brussel - (National Sickness and Invalidity Insurance Institute, Brussels, acting on behalf of the insurance bodies or to the Relief and Welfare Fund for Mariners sailing under the Belgian Flag)

Institut national d'assurance maladie-invalidité, Bruxelles - Rijksinstituut voor ziekte-en invaliditeitsverzekering, Brussel - (National Sickness and Invalidity Insurance Institute, Brussels, acting on behalf of the insurance bodies or to the Relief and Welfare Fund for Mariners sailing under the Belgian Flag)

determines the minimum information on vessel characteristics and activity which must figure in the register which each Member State keeps of the fishing vessels flying its flag (hereinafter called "the national register");

In those circumstances the relevant rules shall be applied to all ro-ro ferries or high-speed passenger craft operating under the same conditions, without discrimination in respect of flag, nationality or place of establishment of the company.

The operative event for the rate applicable to the conversion into the national currency of a non-participating Member State of the flat-rate amount referred to in Article 2(3) of Regulation (EC) No 3223/94 shall fall on the day on which the relevant price was recorded.

control measures applicable to fishing vessels flying the flag of a Contracting Party to the Convention for the conservation of Antarctic marine living resources, (Convention), operating in the Convention area in waters located beyond the limits of national jurisdictions;

where possible, their national legislation prohibits owners and operators of vessels flying their flag that are included in the list indicated in paragraph 1 from taking part in or being associated with tuna-fishing activities in the ICCAT Convention area by vessels not on the ICCAT register;

For the application of the rules of the common fisheries policy, in accordance with Article 15 of Regulation (EC) No 2371/2002, each Member State is required to keep a register of vessels flying its flag and the Commission is required to set up a Community fishing fleet register on the basis of the national registers.

Therefore, in the new producer Member States, provision should be made for authorised primary processors and primary processors to whom the competent authority has not yet granted authorisation in response to their application to inform the national inspection bodies of the quantities of flax and hemp straw and fibre held by them at the beginning of the 2004/2005 marketing year.

Whereas, on the one hand, the Member States should be permitted to refuse to grant refunds, or should be able to recover them; in flagrant cases where they note that the transaction is not in line with the aim of the system of export refunds and, on the other hand, no excessive burden should be placed on the national authorities through an obligation systematically to verify all imports;