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In so far as it may seem necessary or useful to agree on a standard form for the provisions concerning the section of the river between Neuhausen and the border between Alsace and Switzerland, the police requirements shall be drafted identically on all essential points, on the basis of a prior agreement between the two Governments. Article 3 Persons engaged in navigation and rafting shall not be subject to the payment of any tax based solely on the use of the waters of the river or on passage under bridges, even in the event of the construction of bridges of vessels on this section of the Rhine, or where, to ensure the safety of a permanent bridge, it is required that such passage be effected only with the assistance of a pilot appointed for the purpose. (...) Article 7 The two Governments shall organize, each on its own territory, the necessary technical and police supervision of the section of the river in question. Infringements of river police regulations shall be punished by the competent authorities in accordance with their respective laws.

Personnel Employees constituting the crews of river vessels, whatever their duties or functions on board. (...) Rest hours 4.1 Crew members of river vessels shall be entitled to: - daily rest; - one day of rest per week; - rest on holidays; - paid annual leave and such additional leave as is provided for by the legislation in force or by the collective agreement. (...) All crew members shall be bound to report for such work. 5.2 Emergency work on river vessels includes: - life saving or salvaging vessels, ship’s property or cargo; - putting out a fire on one’s own or another vessel or on shore installations, or moving the vessel to a safe place; - dealing with an accident, damage to the vessel or faulty machinery if the accident, damage or fault hinders further movement of the vessel; TRANS/SC.3/WP.3/R.89 page 8 - rendering assistance to other vessels in distress; - salvaging damaged rafts; - refloating one’s own or another vessel or a raft or recovering cargo from vessels in distress; - bringing vessels to shelter in stormy weather; - responding to a general alarm, lifeboat alarm or "man overboard" alarm. 5.3 Work requiring all hands on river vessels includes: - forming or breaking up convoys of vessels or rafts; - weighing anchor or hauling tow-ropes manually on non-motorized vessels; - making fast in bad weather, passing through a lock, entering or leaving a slipway or dock, or mooring at or casting off from an unequipped quay or shore; - lowering and raising masts manually when passing under bridges or suspended structures; - opening and closing cargo hatches manually, setting up and/or clearing remnants of cargo from loading ramps, gangways or decks; - putting in place or moving suction dredges, landing stages, pontoons, support vessels or floating transshipment gear or other floating structures; or repositioning the delivery pipeline of a suction dredge.

This contraption could 'hardly be called a ferry, but was more lik~ a raft; it w~s moved by. means of cables, one of which; about 2 cm in diameter, ·' -· uas stretched acros_s the river serving as a ~~ider for the one 1-.' (...) PINELLI, the chief of the Babimbi subdivision, has forbidden the inhabitants of the two shores to use canoes to cross the river. This agent of the colonial administration is doubly responsible for the tragic drama and ignominious mourning which has strucl{ the people of Babimbi. (...) In 1948, a group of Cameroonian Evangelical youth, returning from .a religious conference, was submerged when crossing the river; a large number of people were drowned and much property lost.

The information on the application of the three-tone signal, transmitted by Governments and River Commissions, is given in the annex to this document. (...) Application of the three-tone signal by member States and River Commissions A. Bulgaria 4. Three-tone signal is applied on Bulgarian inland waterways, and vessels must be fitted with this equipment. (...) The Police Regulations for the Navigation of the Mosel no longer contain the requirement for the application of three-tone signal for vessels navigating by radar in reduced visibility. P. International River Sava Basin Commission 24. The Navigation Rules on the Sava River Basin are harmonized with CEVNI and contain the provisions for the application of three-tone signal for vessels navigating by radar in reduced visibility. 2 Automatic Identification System; Electronic Chart Display and Information System for inland navigation.