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(b) Inviolability of all official documents, data and other related material, regardless of their form and the right

to receive or send official papers, electronic data or correspondence by courier or secure electronic data

transfer without interference;

(c) Immunity from seizure of their personal and official baggage, in the case of representatives of the Parties

to the Agreement Establishing the Centre as well as the members of the Board of Directors and the Advisory

Forum; and

(d) The Portuguese Republic shall make all efforts to issue visas, when required, as speedily as possible.

2. The Centre shall inform the Portuguese Republic of the names of the persons pertaining to the category

of Persons in Official Functions before their entry into Portuguese territory.

3. The Portuguese Republic shall be entitled to request reasonable evidence to establish that persons

claiming the rights granted by this Article pertain to the category of Persons in Official Functions, and to require

that Persons in Official Functions comply with quarantine and health regulations on their entry to, or exit from,

Portuguese territory.

4. Portuguese nationals and foreign citizens who are permanent residents in Portugal shall enjoy only the

privileges and immunities specified in subparagraphs a), b) and c) regarding official baggage of paragraph 1 of

this Article.

5. The provisions of this Article shall not affect any other immunity or privilege to which a person to whom

this Article applies may otherwise be entitled under international law.

Article 13

Staff Members

1. Staff Members shall be entitled to the following privileges and immunities:

(a) Immunity from every form of legal process, including after the termination of their functions, in respect of

spoken or written statements, and from all acts performed by them directly related with their official functions;

(b) Inviolability of all official documents, data and other related material, regardless of their form, and the

right to receive or send official papers, electronic data or correspondence by courier or secure electronic data

transfer without interference;

(c) Immunity from seizure of their personal and official baggage;

(d) Exemption from immigration restrictions and from registration formalities for themselves and their

spouses, partners, as well as to other dependants such as ascendants or descendants in direct line and first

degree, including adoptive children in the same circumstances;

(e) The same facilities in respect to currency exchange as those given to members of the diplomatic

missions in Portugal;

(f) Exemption from taxes on income and complementary remuneration to be paid by the Centre; however,

the Portuguese Republic shall take into consideration the value of all such remuneration to estimate the

taxation applied to income coming from other sources;

(g) At the commencement of their functions in Portugal, Staff Members shall be exempt from importation

duties, VAT and special consumer taxes, except for costs incurred with the payment of services, relating to the

importation of furniture and other personal goods they own or shall acquire within six months of changing their

residence to Portugal; the imported goods that are exempt from importation duties cannot be sold or otherwise

alienated within one year after importation;

(h) Access for their spouses, partners, as well as for other dependants such as ascendants or descendants

in direct line and first degree, including adoptive children in the same circumstances to the labour market in

accordance with the Portuguese law; privileges and immunities under this Agreement shall not apply with

regard to such occupations.

2. The regularisation of the status of the Staff Members as foreign nationals, as well their spouses or

partners, dependent ascendants or descendants in direct line and first degree, as well as adoptive children in

the same circumstances, is subject to the same regime applied to the members of diplomatic missions.