It is permitted that by Royal Decree there shall be fixed the conditions (1.) According to which native merchandise and foreign merchandise which has passed through the Customs shall be stored in private warehouses within the Free Zone maintaining their own nationality; and (2.) According to which native articles which enjoy at their export abroad a drawback or bounty shall be stored in private warehouses within the Free Zone. 14. Within the Free Zone is permitted only the unlading and storage of merchandise coming from countries enjoying the conventional tariff. By Royal Decree, issued on the invitation of the Ministerial Council, this advantage may be also granted to countries not enjoying the conventional tariff, and the conditions of this concession may be defined. 15. Officials of the Customs service have the right to enter at any hour the warehouses, establishments, private compartments, and in general the commercial and industrial installations of every kind in use which are situate within the Free Zone, and to proceed to the examination, with the least possible annoyance, of the business being done, and of the books and all matters and documents relating thereto. 16. Dwellings are only permitted in the Free Zone for the personnel of the service without families. Buildings for restaurants may be hired from the Direction of the Salonica Custom House. Such dwellings and restaurants are considered as being on Customs territory, aud all articles for use in the Free Zone are taken from Customs territory or from the Free Zone after passing through the Customs and payment of import dues, &c. Such dwellings and restaurants are liable to Customs examination. Books are to be kept by the managers thereof. Offenders against these rules may be punished with the revocation of their concessions, besides the penalty mentioned in Article 19. Pedlars, with native articles or drinks or such articles as have passed through the Customs, may be permitted to enter the Free Zone under conditions to be fixed by the Ministry of Finance, and similarly the return of such articles to the Customs territory when unsold may be permitted. Material of all kinds used for buildings, plantations, or other installations in the Free Zone, or consumed therein in any way, is liable to Customs duty, except those required for the construction of the Free Zone. 17. The conditions and regulations of the working of the warehouses of the Government within the Free Zone and their tariffs will be fixed by a Royal Decree issued on the invitation of the Ministerial Council. It is permitted that, by a Royal Decree issued on the proposal of the Ministerial Council, a Convention may be ratified respecting the concession to a company or to the Municipality of Salonica, for a period not exceeding ten years, of the exploitation, wholly or in part, of the warehouses in the Free Zone belonging to the Government, or those to be partly expropriated by it according to the provisions of the present Law. 18. Royal Decrees will determine the conditions and formalities for (1.) The importation of merchandise by sea direct from abroad into the Free Zone, and of the export therefrom direct abroad; (2.) The importation by sea of merchandise from the Customs territory into the Free Zone; (3.) The importation by land, either in waggons or by railway, of merchandise from the Customs territory to the Free Zone; (4.) The exportation by sea of merchandise from the Free Zone into the port or the rest of the sea coast within the Customs territory; and of (5.) All details in general respecting the execution of this Law. 19. Offences against this Law or the regulations confirmed by Royal Decrees are punished by a fine not exceeding 100 drachmæ or by heavier penalties in aggravated cases. 20. Personnel of the Customs of the Free Zone. 21. By way of percentage for the municipal duties collected, the Municipality of Salonica will pay every month to the Directors of the Custom Houses of Salonica and of the Free Zone a sum of 250 drachmæ each, and to the Treasurers of the said Custom Houses a sum of 150 drachmæ each. 22. The Minister of Finance may send five financial officers abroad to study Customs systems, for a period not exceeding six months. Their expenses will be paid, as well as a sum not exceeding their regular salary. Athens, November 17 (30), 1914. |