AGREEMENT ON THE INTERNATIONALE CARRIAGE OF PERISHABLE FOODSTUFFS AND ON THE SPECIAL EQUIPMENT TO BE USED FOR SUCH CARRIAGE (ATP)

(Done at Geneva on 1 September, 1970)

FOREWORD

The text below comprises the Agreement itself and the annexes in the form in which they entered into force on 1 September 1970 as well as the amendments thereto up to 31 December 1997.

THE CONTRACTING PARTIES,

DESIROUS of improving the conditions of preservation of the quality of perishable foodstuffs during their carriage, particularly in international trade,

CONSIDERING that the improvement of those conditions is likely to promote the expansion of trade in perishable foodstuffs,

HAVE AGREED as follows: