5. Article

1. a)) to the international carriage of passengers, of any nationality, by road by means of occasional services:
2. b)) to unladen journeys of the buses and coaches concerned with these services.
3. (2)) In the course of shuttle services, no passenger may be taken up or set down during the journey.
4. (3)) The first return journey and the last outward journey in a series of shuttles shall be made unladen.
5. (4)) However, the classification of a transport operation as a shuttle service shall not be affected by the fact that, with the agreement of the competent authorities in the Contracting Party or Parties concerned:
6. a)) passengers constitute groups, on the territory of a non-Contracting Party or of a Contracting Party other than that in which the transport operator is established or that where the passengers are taken up, that have been formed under contracts of carriage made before their arrival in the territory of the latter Contracting Party. Passengers are carried on the territory of the Contracting Party in which the transport operator is established.
7. b)) passengers have been previously brought, by the same transport operator in the circumstances provided for under point 2, into the territory of the Contracting Party where they are taken up again and carried into the territory of the Contracting Party in which the transport operator is established.
8. c)) passengers have been invited to travel into the territory of another Contracting Party, the cost of transport being borne by the person issuing the invitation. Such passengers must constitute a homogeneous group, which has not been formed solely with a view to undertake that particular journey and which is brought into the territory of the Contracting Party in which the transport operator is established.
9. a)) Council Directive 96/96/EC of 20 December 1996 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to roadworthiness tests for motor vehicles and their trailers (Official Journal of the European Communities No L 46 of 17.2.1997, p.1).
10. b)) Council Directive 92/6/EEC of 10 February 1992 on the installation and use of speed limitation devices for certain categories of motor vehicles in the Community (Official Journal of the European Communities No L 57 of 232.1992, p.27).
11. c)) Council Directive 96/53/EEC of 25 July 1996 laying down for certain road vehicles circulating within the Community the maximum authorised dimensions in national and international traffic and the maximum authorised weights in international traffic (Official Journal of the European Communities No L 235 of 17.9.1996, p.59).
12. d)) Council Regulation (EEC) No 3821/85 of 20 December 1985 on recording equipment in road transport (Official Journal of the European Communities No L 370 of 31.12.1985, p.8) as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 2135/98 of 24.9.1998 (Official Journal L 274 of 9.10.1998, p 1.) or equivalent rules established by AETR Agreement including its Protocols.
13. a)) services from any Member State of the Community (except Greece) to any Contracting Party of INTERBUS;
14. b)) services from any Contracting Party of INTERBUS to any Member State of the Community (except Greece);
15. c)) services from any Contracting Party of INTERBUS to Greece in transit through any other Member State of the Community carried out by transport operators established in any Contracting Party of INTERBUS,
16. a)) services from Greece to Contracting Parties of INTERBUS;
17. b)) services from Contracting Parties of INTERBUS to Greece;
18. 1)) International carriage of passengers of any nationality, by road by means of occasional services:
19. 2)) Unladen journeys of the buses and coaches concerned with these services.
20. 3)) For the purposes of the INTERBUS Agreement, the term 'territory of a Contracting Party' covers, as far as the European Community is concerned, those territories where the Treaty establishing that Community is applied and under the conditions laid down in that Treaty.
21. 4)) The possibility to operate national occasional services in a Contracting Party by operators established in another Contracting Party is excluded from the scope of the INTERBUS Agreement.
22. 5)) The use of buses and coaches designed to carry passengers, for the transport of goods for commercial purposes is excluded from the scope of this Agreement.
23. 6)) the INTERBUS Agreement does not concern own account occasional services.
24. a)) passengers constitute groups, on the territory of a non-Contracting Party or a Contracting Party other than that in which the transport operator is established or that where the passengers are taken up, that have been formed under contracts of carriage made before their arrival in the territory of the latter Contracting Party. Passengers are carried on the territory of the Contracting Party in which the transport operator is established.
25. b)) passengers have been previously brought, by the same transport operator in the circumstances provided for under point 2, into the territory of the Contracting Party where they are taken up again and carried into the territory of the Contracting Party in which the transport operator is established.
26. c)) passengers have been invited to travel into the territory of another Contracting Party, the cost of transport being borne by the person issuing the invitation. Such passengers must constitute a homogeneous group, which has not been formed solely with a view to undertake that particular journey and which is brought into the territory of the Contracting Party in which the transport operator is established.
27. a)) passengers constitute groups, on the territory of a non-Contracting Party or of a Contracting Party other than that in which the transport operator is established or that where the passengers are taken up, that have been formed under contracts of carriage made before their arrival in the territory of the latter Contracting Party. Passengers are carried on the territory of the Contracting Party in which the transport operator is established.
28. b)) passengers have been previously brought, by the same transport operator in the circumstances provided for under point 2, into the territory of the Contracting Party where they are taken up again and carried into the territory of the Contracting Party in which the transport operator is established.
29. c)) passengers have been invited to travel into the territory of another Contracting Party, the cost of transport being borne by the person issuing the invitation. Such passengers must constitute a homogeneous group, which has not been formed solely with a view to undertake that particular journey and which is brought into the territory of the Contracting Party in which the transport operator is established.