제16163호                              관               보                 2006. 1. 3. (화요일)

   naval, air or army units, warships or              Chapter 2
   military aircraft of the same country.             Liability
2 Letter-post items enclosed in the mails         Article 21
 referred to under 1 shall be confined to         Liability       of   postal   administrations.
 items addressed to or sent by members of         Indemnities
 military units or the officers and crews of      1 General
 the ships or aircraft to or from which the           1.1 Except for the cases provided for in
 mails are forwarded. The rates and                     article 22, postal administrations shall be
 conditions of dispatch applicable to them              liable for:
 shall be fixed, according to its regulations,          1.1.1 the loss of, theft from or damage to
 by the postal administration of the country              registered items, ordinary parcels and
 which has made the military unit available               insured items;
 or to which the ships or aircraft belong.              1.1.2 the loss of recorded delivery items;
3 In the absence of special agreement, the              1.1.3 the return of a parcel on which the
 postal administration of the country which               reason for non-delivery is not given.
 has made the military unit available or to           1.2 Postal administrations shall not be
 which the warships or military aircraft                liable for items other than those
 belong shall be liable to the administrations          mentioned in 1.1.1 and 1.1.2.
 concerned for the transit charges for the            1.3 In any other case not provided for in
 mails, the terminal dues and the air                   this Convention, postal administrations
 conveyance dues.                                       shall not be liable.
Article 20                                            1.4 When the loss of or total damage to
Quality of service standards and targets                registered items, ordinary parcels and
1 Administrations shall establish and publish           insured items is due to a case of force
 delivery standards and targets for their               majeure for which indemnity is not
 inward letter-post items and parcels.                  payable, the sender shall be entitled to
2 These standards and targets, increased by             repayment of the charges paid, with the
 the time normally required for customs                 exception of the insurance charge.
 clearance, shall be no less favourable than      1.5 The amounts of indemnity to be paid shall
 those applied to comparable items in their           not exceed the amounts mentioned in the
 domestic service.                                    Letter Post Regulations and the Parcel Post
3 Administrations of origin shall also                Regulations.
 establish and publish end-to-end standards       1.6 In cases of liability, consequential losses
 for priority and airmail letter-post items as        or loss of profits shall not be taken into
 well as for parcels and economy/surface              account in the indemnity to be paid.
 parcels.                                         1.7 All provisions regarding liability of postal
4 Postal administrations shall measure the            administrations shall be strict, binding and
 application of quality of service standards.         complete. Postal administrations shall in no

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