(w)
exchange information and experience on issues common to roads
and road transport within the Community; and
(x)
encourage the use and development of low cost and non-motorised
transport in the Community's transport policies.
ARTICLE 91
Railways and Rail Transport
1.
The Partner States agree to establish and maintain co-ordinated railway
services that would efficiently connect the Partner States within the Community
and, where necessary, to construct additional railway connections.
2.
The Partner States shall, in particular:
(a)
adopt common policies for the development of railways and railway
transport in the Community;
(b)
make their railways more efficient and competitive through, inter
alia, autonomous management and improvement of infrastructure;
(c)
adopt common safety rules, regulations and requirements with
regard to signs, signals, rolling stock, motive power and related
equipment and the transport of dangerous substances;
(d)
adopt measures for the facilitation, harmonisation
rationalisation of railway transport within the Community;
(e)
harmonise and simplify documents required for railway transport
within the Community;
(f)
harmonise procedures with respect to the packaging, marking and
loading of goods and wagons for railway transport within the
Community;
(g)
agree to charge non-discriminatory tariffs in respect of goods
transported by railway within the Community;
(h)
consult each other on proposed measures that may affect railway
transport within the Community;
(i)
integrate the operations of their railway administrations including
the synchronisation of train schedules and the operations of unit
trains;
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