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208 United Nations - Treaty Series 1964
Arlide 84
1. Outstanding questions relating to railway traffic across the Netherlands-
German frontier shall be settled as soon as possible by the competent German and
Netherlands agencies. The foregoing shall apply, in particular, to the adaptation of
past Netherlands-German agreements relating to sections of line crossing the frontier
to present conditions.
2. In that connexion, the Contracting Parties attach special importance to the
Venlo-Kaldenkirchen and Emmerich-Zevenaar frontier sections. Questions relating
to those sections of line shall be settled as a matter of priority.
3. The Emmerich-Zevenaar section shall be reopened to railway goods traffic
upon the introduction of the 1960 time-table. The details shall be agreed upon by
the competent German and Netherlands agencies.
Article 85
1. The construction of the Arnhem-Oberhausen Motorway (E 36) shall be carried
out by the Contracting Parties in the following manner:
(a) The Federal Republic of Germany shall, by the end of 1961, construct the link
between Federal Highway 8 and the Emmerich interchange, and the motorway
from that point to the Netherlands-German frontier between boundary-stones 702
and 703.
(b) The Kingdom of the Netherlands shall, by the end of 1961, construct the motorway
from Arnhem to the boundary of the area referred to in article 4 of this Treaty near
Feldhuisen, as defined in section 27 of annex A to this Treaty, and shall there
construct the Netherlands portion of the proposed joint Customs post.
(c) Construction works on the motorway between the boundary of the area referred
to in article 4 near Feldhuisen and the Netherlands-German frontier between
boundary-stones 702 and 703, and construction works on the portion of the joint
Customs post situated in that area, which until the entry into force of this Treaty
are to be effected by the Kingdom of the Netherlands in close co-operation with
the competent German authorities, making use of the German preparatory works
and with due regard to German technical specifications and to German wishes,
shall be continued by the Federal Republic of Germany after the entry into force
of this Treaty. They shall be completed by the end of 1961, so that the motorway
between the Emmerich interchange and Arnhem may be put into use by that
time at the latest.
(d) The Federal Republic of Germany shall complete the Oberhausen-Wesel section
by the end of 1961.
(e) The Federal Republic of Germany shall commence construction of the section
between Wesel and the Emmerich interchange during the financial year 1962,
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