Art. 17 Verdrag tussen het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden en de Syrische Arabische Republiek voor geregelde luchtdiensten

1. The Contracting Parties agree to provide assistance to each other as necessary with a view to preventing unlawful seizure of aircraft and other unlawful acts against the safety of aircraft, its passengers and crew, airports and air navigation facilities and any other threat to security of civil aviation. 2. Each Contracting Party agrees to observe non-discriminatory and generally applicable security provisions required by the other Contracting Party for entry into the Territory of the other Contracting Party and to take adequate measures to inspect passengers and their carry-on items. Each Contracting Party shall also give sympathetic consideration to any request from the other Contracting Party for special security measures for its aircraft or passengers to meet a particular threat. 3. The Contracting Parties shall act in accordance with applicable aviation security provisions established by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). 4. The Contracting Parties shall act in conformity with the provisions of the Convention on Offences and Certain Other Acts Committed on Board Aircraft, signed at Tokyo on 14 September 1963, the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft, signed at The Hague on 16 December 1970, and the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Civil Aviation, signed at Montreal on 23 September 1971, and the Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts of Violence at Airports Serving International Civil Aviation, signed at Montreal on 24 February 1988 and the Convention on the Marking of Plastic Explosives for the Purpose of Detection, signed at Montreal on 1 March 1991, insofar as the Contracting Parties are both party to these Conventions. 5. When an incident, or threat of an incident, of unlawful seizure of aircraft or other unlawful acts against the safety of aircraft, its passengers and crew, airports and air navigation facilities occurs, the Contracting Parties shall assist each other by facilitating communications intended to terminate rapidly and safely such incident or threat thereof. 6. When a Contracting Party has reasonable grounds to believe that the other Contracting Party has departed from the aviation security provisions of this Article, the Aeronautical authorities of the first Contracting Party may request immediate consultations with the Aeronautical authorities of the other Contracting Party. Failure to reach a satisfactory agreement within fifteen (15) days from the date of such request shall constitute grounds to withhold, revoke, limit or impose conditions on the operating authorization of an airlines or airlines of that other Contracting Party. When required by an emergency, a Contracting Party may take interim action prior to the expiry of these fifteen (15) days.

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