The provisions of this Protocol shall not affect intentional transboundary movements that take place pursuant to such agreements and arrangements as between the parties to those agreements or arrangements.

The Parties may enter into bilateral, regional and multilateral agreements and arrangements with non-Parties regarding such transboundary movements.

(ii) Reductions in national annual emissions of nitrogen oxides or transboundary fluxes of such emissions as required to achieve agreed objectives based on critical loads; and

(c) where a major accident could have transboundary effects, the information required in (a) and (b) above is provided to the States concerned, to assist in cooperation and coordination arrangements.

Such cooperation may include agreed joint programmes for the sustainable management of transboundary natural resources, scientific and technical cooperation, and strengthening of relevant institutions.

For the Contracting parties transfrontier co-operation shall mean any agreed administrative, technical, economic, social or cultural actions designed to reinforce and develop good neighbourly relations between the regions on both sides of the frontier and to solve any issues which may arise in this region.

For the purpose of this Convention, transfrontier co-operation shall mean any concerted action designed to reinforce and foster neighbourly relations between territorial communities or authorities within the jurisdiction of two or more Contracting Parties and the conclusion of any agreement and arrangement necessary for this purpose.

Parties may enter into bilateral, regional and multilateral agreements and arrangements regarding intentional transboundary movements of living modified organisms, consistent with the objective of this Protocol and provided that such agreements and arrangements do not result in a lower level of protection than that provided for by the Protocol.

On imports, exports and transit of goods, where the extent of the trade and the related risk to taxes and subsidies is such that the potential financial loss to the budget of the Contracting Parties is considerable, those Parties may agree to conduct joint cross-border operations for the prevention and prosecution of illegal activities to which this Agreement applies.

2.2 The SECI Center shall use the ICPO-INTERPOL and World Customs Organization standard procedures and technical system for the transmission, storage, search, retrieval and analysis of agreed categories of information related to trans-border crime as agreed by the Joint Cooperation Committee.

Noting that the elaboration of an approach based on critical loads is aimed at the establishment of an effect-oriented scientific basis to be taken into account when reviewing the operation of this Protocol and at deciding on further internationally agreed measures to limit and reduce emissions of nitrogen oxides or their transboundary fluxes,

Subregional or joint action programmes may include agreed joint programmes for the sustainable management of transboundary natural resources relating to desertification, priorities for coordination and other activities in the fields of capacity building, scientific and technical cooperation, particularly drought early warning systems and information sharing, and means of strengthening the relevant subregional and other organizations or institutions.

The Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Slovenia, the Police, and the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Croatia, the General Police Directorate (hereinafter referred to as "the Contracting Parties"), have agreed, on the basis of Articles 13 and 22 of the Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Slovenia and the Government of the Republic of Croatia on cross-border police cooperation, signed on 6 November 2002 in Zagreb (hereinafter referred to as "the Agreement"), to conclude a Protocol between the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Slovenia, the Police, and the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Croatia, the General Police Directorate on the referral of liaison officers (hereinafter referred to as "the Protocol").

The Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Slovenia, the Police, and the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Croatia, the General Police Directorate (hereinafter referred to as "the Contracting Parties"), have agreed, on the basis of Articles 10 and 22 of the Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Slovenia and the Government of the Republic of Croatia on cross-border police cooperation, signed on 6 November 2002 in Zagreb (hereinafter referred to as "the Agreement"), to conclude a Protocol between the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Slovenia, the Police, and the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Croatia, the General Police Directorate, on mixed patrolling along the state border of the Republic of Slovenia and the Republic of Croatia (hereinafter referred to as the Protocol).

Private arrangements between banks setting up new or linking existing cross-border credit transfer systems will have to comply with Articles 85 and 86 of the EC Treaty.

The Commission's general approach will be to view positively arrangements between banks that enable them to provide improved cross-border credit transfer systems, and in particular that enable them to meet the requirements of the proposed Directive.

In an open and competitive market, there should be no restrictions that prevent undertakings from negotiating access and interconnection arrangements between themselves, in particular on cross-border agreements, subject to the competition rules of the Treaty.

Customs unions, free trade areas, cross-border arrangements

reductions in national annual emissions of nitrogen oxides or transboundary fluxes of such emissions as required to achieve agreed objectives based on critical loads, and

projects agreed by the countries concerned, that have a cross-border impact, contribute to the development of structures in border regions and facilitate cooperation between the countries as a whole.

The activities of Member States to draw up and implement policies, programmes and arrangements to promote their exports of goods and cross-border services to third country markets shall not be affected by this Regulation.

In the framework of general cooperation mentioned in Article 9 of this Convention, or specific arrangements, the Riparian Parties shall establish and implement joint programmes for monitoring the conditions of transboundary waters, including floods and ice drifts, as well as transboundary impact.

Parties may enter into bilateral, regional and multilateral agreements and arrangements regarding intentional trans- boundary movements of living modified organisms, consistent with the objective of this Protocol and provided that such agreements and arrangements do not result in a lower level of protection than that provided for by the Protocol.

(17) The Commission and Member States support the process with respect to the appropriate elaboration of international rules and procedures in the field of liability and redress for damage resulting from transboundary movements of GMOs, to be agreed, as provided for in Article 27 of the Protocol, at the first meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Protocol.

The Riparian Parties shall on the basis of equality and reciprocity enter into bilateral or multilateral agreements or other arrangements, where these do not yet exist, or adapt existing ones, where necessary to eliminate the contradictions with the basic principles of this Convention, in order to define their mutual relations and conduct regarding the prevention, control and reduction of transboundary impact.

The originator's institution shall execute the cross-border credit transfer in question within the time limit agreed with the originator.

The beneficiary's institution shall make the funds resulting from the cross-border credit transfer available to the beneficiary within the time limit agreed with the beneficiary.

facilitate agreement between holders of parental responsibility through mediation or other means, and facilitate cross-border cooperation to this end.

Private arrangements between banks setting up new or linking existing cross-border credit transfer systems will have to comply with Articles 85 and 86 of the EC Treaty.

the end of the agreed time limit or, in the absence of any such time limit, the end of the fifth banking business day following the date of acceptance of the cross-border credit transfer order, to

The Commission's general approach will be to view positively arrangements between banks that enable them to provide improved cross-border credit transfer systems, and in particular that enable them to meet the requirements of the proposed Directive.

EMPHASIZING that cooperation between member countries in regard to the protection and use of transboundary waters shall be implemented primarily through the elaboration of agreements between countries bordering the same waters, especially where no such agreements have yet been reached, HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS:

Such a request may not be made before expiry of the time limit agreed between the originator's institution and the originator for the execution of the cross-border credit transfer order or, in the absence of any such time limit, before expiry of the time limit laid down in the second subparagraph of Article 6 (1).

Similarly, where non-execution of the cross-border credit transfer within the time limit agreed or, in the absence of any such time limit, before the end of the fifth banking business day following the date of acceptance of the cross-border credit transfer is attributable to an intermediary institution, that institution shall be required to compensate the originator's institution.

Furthermore, the provision of limited protection of financial collateral arrangements from some rules of insolvency law in addition supports the wider aspect of the common monetary policy, where the participants in the money market balance the overall amount of liquidity in the market among themselves, by cross-border transactions backed by collateral.

The other countries of Europe which are parties to the European Convention on Transfrontier Television are an integral part of the European audiovisual area and should therefore be enabled to participate in this Programme on the basis of supplementary appropriations, in accordance with the procedures to be established in the agreements between the interested parties.

The Commission and Member States support the process with respect to the appropriate elaboration of international rules and procedures in the field of liability and redress for damage resulting from transboundary movements of GMOs, to be agreed, as provided for in Article 27 of the Protocol, at the first meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Protocol.

Where the agreed time limit in not complied with or, in the absence of any such time limit, where, at the end of the fifth banking business day following the date of acceptance of the cross-border credit transfer order, the funds have not been credited to the the account of the beneficiary's institution, the originator's institution shall compensate the originator.

Subregional or joint action programmes may include agreed joint programmes for the sustainable management of transboundary natural resources relating to desertification, priorities for coordination and other activities in the fields of capacity-building, scientific and technical cooperation, particularly drought early warning systems and information sharing, and means of strengthening the relevant subregional and other organisations or institutions.

Have agreed in the common interest of the Parties to set up with the financial assistance of the Community under the relevant provisions of Title VIII of the Agreement a system to monitor the quality and the quantity of water in their cross-boundary rivers with a view to: