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23.8. Request for additional documentation. The statistical authority should use available customs information and aircraft and ship registers for obtaining the maximum amount of statistical information possible and, if necessary, should request the owners named on the register or the leaseholder named on the financial lease to submit separate foreign trade statistics declarations. The last-mentioned step may have to be implemented through the enactment of legislation specifying the obligation of each party (the registration authority, owners, leaseholders) to provide information.
[1] A similar situation might exist in the case of trains which regularly cross borders. Also, in this case, it might be necessary to use the change of ownership and not the crossing of the border as the criteria on determining whether a trade transaction is to be recorded. Enterprises that own and/or operate or produce and sell trains should be able to provide information about the acquisition and sale of trains.
[2] For example, in the European Union, fishing vessels are in general not registered in the national ship registers, as indicated by the results of an EU questionnaire.
[9]3 See the Convention on International Civil Aviation. Available from http://www.icao.int/publications/pages/
doc7300.aspx. There are currently 191 contracting States parties to the Convention.
[4] Convention on International civil Aviation, part I, chap. III, article 17.
[5] Ibid., article 18.
[6] Ibid., article 20.
[7] See International Maritime Organization, Circular letter No. 188/Rev.3 of 11 December 2006 on the implementation of resolution A.600(15): IMO ship identification number scheme.
[8] See International Maritime Organization, Circular letter No.2554/Rev.1, 7 February 2007 on implementation of the IMO Unique Company and Registered Owner Identification Number Scheme (resolution MSC.160(78)).
[9] Countries are invited to register ships engaged in domestic voyages as well.
[10] However, fishing vessels might not be registered in this standard way.