AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF AUSTRIA FOR THE ABOLITION OF VISA REQUIREMENTS
Citizens of Austria holding Austrian passports shall be free to enter the Philippines as tourists or for business purposes at any authorized port of entry and to stay in the country for a period of 59 days without the necessity to obtain a visa.
ARTICLE 2
Citizens of the Philippines holding a valid Philippine passports shall be free to enter Austria as tourist for business purposes at any authorized port of entry and to stay in the country for a period of (2) months without the necessity of obtaining a visa.
ARTICLE 3
The foregoing provisions shall also apply for holders of valid Austrian Philippine diplomatic or service passports.
ARTICLE 4
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In addition, said holders of Austrian or Philippine diplomatic or service passports who are members of a diplomatic mission or consular post of one Contracting Party established in the territory of the other Contracting Party or who are representatives of one Contracting Party to an international organization established in the territory of the other Contracting Party or who are officials of that organization shall be free to enter and stay without visas in the territory of the other Contracting Party until the termination of their functions.
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For the duration of the functions of persons enumerated in sub-paragraph (a) a members of their families living with them in a common household shall be free to enter and stay without visas in the territory of the other Contracting Party if they are themselves holders of Austrian or Philippine diplomatic or service passports.
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ARTICLE 5
The foregoing waiver of visa requirements shall not exempt Austrian citizens entering the Philippines and Philippine citizens entering Austria from necessity of complying with the las and regulations in the host country concerning the taking of employment or the exercise of any profession with or without compensation.
ARTICLE 6
Each Contracting Party reserves the right to refuse entry or stay in its territory to citizens of the other Contracting Party who may be considered undesirable.
ARTICLE 7
Each Contracting Party undertakes to take back on request of the other Contracting Party at any time holders of passports issues by the authorities of the other Contracting Party, even if they should not posses the nationality of the Party requested.
ARTICLE 8
Each Contracting Party may, with exception of Article 7, temporarily suspend the effectivity of this Agreement for reasons of health or public order. The suspension or the termination of such suspension shall be notified immediately in writing to the other Contracting Party through diplomatic channels.
ARTICLE 9
Each Contracting Party may denounce this Agreement by notifying the other Contracting Party in writing through diplomatic channel. The denounciation shall take effect at the end of three (3) months from the date of the request of the receipt of the notification.
ARTICLE 10
This Agreement shall enter into force on the 1st of January 1978.
DONE at Manila this 26th day of October 1977, in two originals, in the German and English languages, both of which are equally authentic.
FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES:
FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
OF THE REPUBLIC OF AUSTRIA:
Acting Secretary of Foreign Affairs
Austrian Ambassador
Entry into Force: January 1, 1978