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Pursuant to Article 5.2 of this instrument, “[t]his Protocol shall form an integral part of the [1998 ASEAN Framework Agreement on the Facilitation of Goods in Transit].”

Article 30 of the 1998 ASEAN Framework Agreement on the Facilitation of Goods in Transit refers to the consultation and dispute settlement rules and procedures in the 1996 Protocol on Dispute Settlement Mechanism.

Subsequently, the 1998 ASEAN Framework Agreement on the Facilitation of Goods in Transit was one of the “Covered Agreements” pursuant to Article 1.1 of the 2004 ASEAN Protocol on Enhanced Dispute Settlement Mechanism read together with its Appendix I.

List of Transit Transport Routes for Protocol 1

Article 5.4 ‘Final Provisions’:

“This Protocol shall enter into force on the sixtieth day after the deposit of the sixth Instrument of Ratification or Acceptance, and shall become effective only among the Contracting Parties that have ratified or accepted it. For each Contracting Party ratifying or accepting to the Protocol after the deposit of the sixth Instrument of Ratification or Acceptance, the Protocol shall enter into force on the sixtieth day after the deposit of such Contracting Party of its Instrument of Ratification or Acceptance.”

1998 ASEAN Framework Agreement on the Facilitation of Goods in Transit

Protocol 2 Designation of Frontier Posts [pending negotiation as of last update]

1999 Protocol 3 Types and Quantity of Road Vehicles

1999 Protocol 4 Technical Requirements of Vehicles

2000 Protocol 8 Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures to Implement the ASEAN Framework Agreement on the Facilitation of Goods in Transit

2001 Protocol 5 ASEAN Scheme of Compulsory Motor Vehicle Insurance

2002 Protocol 9 Dangerous Goods

2009 ASEAN Framework Agreement on the Facilitation of Inter-State Transport

2011 Protocol 6 Railways Border and Interchange Stations

2015 Protocol 7 Customs Transit System

This Protocol adopts the 1999 Ministerial Understanding on the Development of the ASEAN Highway Network Project pursuant to Article 3.2.

Note Article 3.1 ‘Obligations’:

“The Contracting Parties, subject to their relevant national laws and regulations, hereby agree to authorize the unhindered access and movement f means of transport as specified in Protocol 4 of the Agreement, including persons and goods, in the duly designated road or highway transit transport routes under this Protocol.”

Dates of ratification given above were obtained from the ASEAN Secretariat's Legal Instruments website and its electronic collection of instruments of ratification, accession and notification. Some of the dates given appear to be the dates of execution of the instruments of ratification, rather than their date of receipt by the depository.