A Parte em cujo território o presente Acordo for assinado submetê-lo-á, para registo, junto do Secretariado das Nações Unidas, imediatamente após a sua entrada em vigor, nos termos do artigo 102.º da Carta das Nações Unidas, devendo, igualmente, notificar a outra Parte da conclusão deste procedimento e indicar-lhe o número de registo atribuído.
Em fé do que, os abaixo assinados, estando devidamente autorizados pelos seus Governos, assinaram o presente Acordo.
Feito em Lisboa, em 16 de Março de 2009, em dois originais, nas línguas portuguesa, árabe e inglesa, fazendo todos os textos igualmente fé. Em caso de divergência, a versão em língua inglesa deve prevalecer.
Pela República Portuguesa:
Luís Amado, Ministro de Estado e dos Negócios Estrangeiros.
Pelo Reino Hachemita da Jordânia:
Amer Hadidi, Ministro da Indústria e Comércio.
COOPERATION AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE PORTUGUESE REPUBLIC AND THE HASHEMITE KINGDOM OF JORDAN IN THE FIELDS OF EDUCATION, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND HIGHER EDUCATION, CULTURE, YOUTH, SPORTS AND MEDIA.
The Portuguese Republic and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, hereinafter referred to as «the Parties»:
Seeking to reinforce the friendship and mutual understanding and to promote and develop the cooperation in the fields of education, science, technology and higher education, culture, youth, sports and media, on the basis of mutual equality, reciprocity, respect and benefit;
Observing legal acts in force in their respective States:
agree as follows:
Article 1
Scope
The Parties shall encourage and promote the cooperation in the fields of education, science, technology and higher education, culture, youth, sports and media.
Article 2
Study and diffusion of language, culture and history
The Parties shall favour, to the extent possible, the study and diffusion in their country of the language and culture of the other Party, namely of the portuguese language and culture and of arabic studies.
Article 3
Evaluation and certification of linguistic competencies
The Parties express their interest in studying the creation of new systems of evaluation and certification of competences in their respective languages, as foreign languages and second languages, and supporting those systems already put in place.
Article 4
Cooperation through the Internet
The Parties shall make available Internet platforms for the teaching/learning of languages and diffusion of their respective cultures.
Article 5
Granting of scholarships
The Parties shall grant, on a reciprocity basis, scholarships intended to support research in the fields of language and culture of both countries.
Article 6
Education
The Parties agree on promoting and developing the cooperation in the area of elementary and secondary education, namely through:
- a)Exchange of information and documentation concerning the educative systems of both countries, such as educational material, including technologies of information and communication in the field of education;
- b)Exchange of experiences in the realm of education;
- c)Development of contacts between non higher education institutions and other organizations of educational character which contribute to the development of projects or programmes of exchange in various fields, aimed at docents, experts, education technicians and students.
Article 7
Recognition of equivalence of studies
The Parties propose to analyse the process of granting of equivalence of studies, in accordance with the legislation in force.
Article 8
Science, technology and higher education
- 1 -The Parties shall promote the exchange of information about the higher education, in view of the recognition and equivalence of diplomas and degrees, in accordance with the respective legislation in force.
- 2 -The Parties shall encourage and promote:
- a)The cooperation between their universities and other higher education institutions;
- b)The exchange of university teachers and researchers within joint projects;
- c)Technical, scientific and technological exchange of information.
Article 9
Cooperation in the field of culture
- 1 -The Parties shall promote and facilitate direct contacts in the fields of literature, visual arts, scenic arts, photography, performing arts, cinema, audiovisual, public libraries, archives, museums, copyrights and related rights and heritage.
- 2 -To this purpose, the Parties shall exchange information about cultural and artistic events organized in their respective countries and shall encourage the participation in these events, facilitating, just as well, the reciprocal organization of cultural weeks.
- 3 -To the mentioned purposes in this Agreement, the Parties shall encourage the translation, edition and diffusion of cultural art works edited in their respective countries.
- 4 -The Parties shall facilitate the reciprocal organization of training in the fields of cultural management, heritage, curatory and museology.
Article 10
Cooperation in the field of National Libraries
The Parties shall facilitate cooperation between the National Libraries of both countries.
Article 11
Cooperation in the field of archaeology
The Parties shall encourage and promote:
- a)The cooperation in the field of archaeological research;
- b)The exchange of publications, periodicals and references published in both countries;
- c)Participation in conferences, seminars and symposia related to archaeology;
- d)The cooperation and exchange of experience in the field of restoration and conservation of archaeological and historical monuments.
Article 12
Cooperation in the fields of cinema and audiovisual
The Parties shall encourage cooperation in the fields of cinema and audiovisual.
Article 13
Prohibition of illegal trading of art works
The Parties shall adopt all possible measures providing penalties and prohibiting illegal trading of art works, documents and any other objects of historical or archaeological value, in accordance with each Party's national law and the international law in force.
Article 14
Circulation of persons and equipment
- 1 -Within the framework of application of the present Agreement, the Parties shall grant the necessary measures in order to facilitate the entrance, stay and exit of persons, in accordance with their respective legal acts in force.
- 2 -The Parties shall facilitate, equally, the import and subsequent re-export of material and equipment for non-commercial purposes, in the framework of the cultural, artistic and scientific activities previewed in the present Agreement.
Article 15
Safeguard of national heritage
- 1 -The Parties, for the safeguard of each countries national heritage, compromise in looking after the safety and safeguard of the art works, while in the situation of temporary importation within the framework of the present Agreement.
- 2 -The Parties compromise in preventing the illegal entrance/exit of artworks or documentation of historical, archaeological and heritage value of their respective territories.
Article 16
Copyright protection
Each Party shall protect copyright (authors' and neighbouring rights) of the other Party, in accordance with the legislation in force in each country and with the international agreements endorsed and applied in both countries.
Article 17
Cooperation in the fields of youth and sports
- 1 -The Parties propose to continue the collaboration between Portugal and Jordan, compromising to promote the establishment and development of common activities in matters related with youth associations, volunteering and studies in the field of youth, as well as to facilitate the approximation and reciprocal knowledge of the youthful reality of both countries.
- 2 -The Parties, through their entities responsible for the field of sports, public and non-governmental, shall promote the cooperation in the field of sport in the context of sports information, fight of doping, training of human resources and exchange of technicians and sportsmen.
Article 18
Media
The Parties shall encourage the development of direct relations between the entities of both countries developing public service missions within the area of media.
Article 19
Participation in international treaties and agreements
The present Agreement shall have no effect on the obligations of both Parties under international treaties they are Parties thereto.
Article 20
Cooperation programmes and joint committee
- 1 -The Parties, for the purposes of the present Agreement and in order to establish detailed cooperation and exchange, shall be allowed to prepare cooperation programmes, which will come into effect, to begin with, for a three-year period.
- 2 -The cooperation programmes shall become a component part of the commitments undertaken by the present Agreement and may anticipate financial obligations incurred with pursuant activities.
- 3 -The financial obligations incurred with the cooperation programmes shall be the responsibility of the State departments of both countries, which report for the areas covered by the present Agreement.
- 4 -The cooperation programmes shall be signed by a joint committee, that shall meet alternately in one of the two countries.
- 5 -Regardless of the validity foreseen for its duration, and unless none of the Parties announces its intention to terminate it, the aforementioned cooperation programmes shall remain in force until the signature of another.
Article 21
Settlement of disputes
Any disputes arising from the interpretation or implementation of this Agreement shall be settled through negotiation between the Parties, through the diplomatic channels.
Article 22
Amendment
- 1 -The present Agreement may be amended if requested by either Party.
- 2 -The amendments resulting thereof shall enter into force according to the provisions established in article 24 of the present Agreement.
Article 23
Duration and termination
- 1 -The present Agreement shall remain in force for a period of three years, automatically renewed for equal successive periods of three years.
- 2 -Each Party may terminate this Agreement by notifying the other Party, in writing and through the diplomatic channels, up to six months prior to the end of its duration.
- 3 -The termination of this Agreement shall not affect the execution of any programmes or projects agreed during its validity, unless the Parties agree otherwise.
Article 24
Implementation
The present Agreement shall come into force sixty days after the receipt of the last written notification, received through diplomatic channels, that all the internal law legal procedures for its entry into force have been fulfilled.
Article 25
Registration
In accordance with article 102 of the Charter of the United Nations, the Party in which territory the present Agreement was signed shall, immediately after its entry into force, transmit it for registration to the Secretariat of the United Nations, and shall notify the other Party of the conclusion of this procedure and indicate the registry number it has been assigned.
In witness whereof, the undersigned, duly authorised by their Governments, have signed this Agreement.
Done in Lisbon, on the 16th March 2009, in two originals, in portuguese, arabic and english languages, all the texts being equally authentic. In case of any divergence as to the interpretation, the english text shall prevail.
On Behalf of the Portuguese Republic:
Luís Amado, Minister of State and for Foreign Affairs.
On Behalf of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan:
Amer Hadidi, Minister of Industry and Trade.
(ver documento original)