Europees Verdrag betreffende de sociale zekerheid van arbeiders werkzaam bij het internationaal vervoer

The Governments of the States Signatory hereto,

Considering the Agreement concerning the social security of Rhine boatmen, signed at Paris on 27 July 1950 under the auspices of the International Labour Organisation, which came into force on 1 June 1953;

Considering the General Agreement on Economic Regulations for International Road Transport, including the Set of Rules annexed thereto, the Additional Protocol and the Protocol of Signature, signed at Geneva on 17 March 1954;

Considering that the present development of international transport between their countries by land, air and inland navigation necessitates a multilateral instrument to provide for an effective protection of workers engaged in such transport when, in cases of sickness, maternity, employment injury or death, they need social security benefits in the territory of a Contracting Party other than the country to the laws and regulations of which the said workers are subject;

Affirming, in respect of workers engaged in international transport and of the benefits mentioned above, the principle of equality of treatment of the nationals of each of the Contracting Parties as regards the application of national laws and regulations on social security, a principle already enunciated in international labour Conventions; and

Considering that the cost of social security benefits provided in the cases mentioned above should, as a rule, be borne by the institution of the Contracting Party to the laws and regulations of which the worker concerned is subject;