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• They will decide as expeditiously as possible upon applications relating to travel by those
who are seriously ill or by the elderly, and other travel of an urgent humanitarian nature.
• They will intensify efforts by their local, regional and central authorities concerned with the
implementation of the above, and ensure that charges for giving priority treatment to such
applications do not exceed costs actually incurred.
(13) In dealing with applications for travel for family meetings, family reunification or marriage between citizens of different States, they win ensure that acts or omissions by members
of the applicant’s family do not adversely affect the rights of the applicant as set forth in the
relevant international instruments.
(14) They will ensure that all documents necessary for applications based on the human contacts provisions of the Final Act and of the other aforementioned CSCE documents are easily
accessible to the applicant. The documents will remain valid throughout the application procedure In the event of a renewed application the documents already submitted by the applicant in connection with previous applications will be taken into consideration.
(15) They will simplify practices and gradually reduce administrative requirements for applications based on the human contacts provisions of the Final Act and of the other aforementioned CSCE documents.
(16) They will ensure that, when applications based on the human contacts provisions of the
Final Act and of the other aforementioned CSCE documents are refused for reasons specified in the relevant international instruments, the applicant is promptly provided in writing
with an official notification of the grounds on which the decision was based. As a rule and in
all cases where the applicant so requests, he will be given the necessary information about the
procedure for making use of any effective administrative or judicial remedies against the decision available to him as envisaged in the above-mentioned international instruments. In cases
where exit for permanent settlement abroad is involved, this information will be provided as
part of the official notification foreseen above.
(17) If in this context an individual’s application for travel abroad has been refused for reasons
of national security, they will ensure that, within strictly warranted time limits, any restriction on that individual’s travel is as short as possible and is not applied in an arbitrary manner. They will also ensure that the applicant can have the refusal reviewed within six months
and, should the need arise, at regular intervals thereafter so that any changes in the circumstances surrounding the refusal, such as time elapsed since the applicant was last engaged in
work or duties involving national security, are taken into account. Before individuals take up
such work or duties they will be formally notified if and how this could affect applications they
might submit for such travel.
(18) Within one year of the conclusion of the Vienna Follow-up Meeting they win publish and
make easily accessible, where this has not already been done, an their laws and statutory regulations concerning movement by individuals within their territory and travel between States.
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