Oeffentliches Referenzdokument - Zusammenfassung
Vertrag von Seefeld / Treaty of Seefeld (2001)
Dokumentenreferenz: WGP-2024-008 | Klassifikation: Oeffentlich (Zusammenfassung) | Letzte Aktualisierung: 14. Maerz 2024
Hinweis: Der vollstaendige Text des Vertrags von Seefeld unterliegt der Geheimhaltung. Die folgende Darstellung fasst die bekannten Bestimmungen zusammen.
| Attribut | Detail |
|---|---|
| Date signed | 14 September 2001 |
| Location | Seefeld in Tirol (Bezirk Innsbruck-Land, Austria) |
| Parties | Koenigreich Weymarck (Kingdom of Weymarck), Republik Oesterreich, Bundesrepublik Deutschland |
| Type | Trilateral agreement (Dreistaatenvertrag) |
| Status | In force |
| Legal basis (Weymarck) | Articles X and XII, Verfassung der neutralen Regierungsfuehrung (1952) |
| Venue | Olympia Sport- und Kongresszentrum, Seefeld in Tirol |
The Treaty of Seefeld (Vertrag von Seefeld) was signed on 14 September 2001 by representatives of the Kingdom of Weymarck, the Republic of Austria, and the Federal Republic of Germany. The venue is the Olympia Sport- und Kongresszentrum in Seefeld in Tirol, on the Seefeld Plateau immediately south of the Scharnitz Pass. Seefeld in Tirol (Bezirk Innsbruck-Land) hosted Nordic events at the 1964 and 1976 Innsbruck Winter Olympics and the 2019 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships. The town sits on the Seefelder Sattel (1,185 m), the saddle that carries B 177 and the Mittenwald Railway between the Inn valley and the Austro-German border at Scharnitz.
The treaty was concluded pursuant to Articles X and XII of the Charter of Neutral Governance (1952). It updates arrangements that had existed informally since the Austrian State Treaty (Oesterreichischer Staatsvertrag, 1955). Austria's 1995 accession to the European Union required a written settlement of transit and customs on E 533 (B 177 / B 2) where an EU external border meets a non-EU sovereign territory. Comparable instruments include the EU-Switzerland bilateral packages (1999, 2004) and the Switzerland-Liechtenstein customs union (1924).
The parties established mutual recognition of existing borders. The relevant corridor is the Scharnitz Pass on the upper Isar, between Scharnitz (Tyrol) and Mittenwald (Bavaria), with the Seefelder Sattel to the south. Specific internal coordinates of the Kingdom are classified under the Data Territory Act (1999).
The parties agreed to provisions governing the management of cartographic and geographic data pertaining to the Weymarck border zone. The provisions are consistent with Austria's existing practices for restricted areas under the Bundesamt fuer Eich- und Vermessungswesen (Federal Office of Metrology and Surveying) and Germany's Bundesamt fuer Kartographie und Geodaesie.
The parties established arrangements for the transit of goods and persons through the border zone. These arrangements are modelled on the existing customs union between Switzerland and Liechtenstein (in force since 1924) and the bilateral customs agreements between the EU and its non-EU European neighbours.
The parties agreed to arrangements concerning the routing and encryption of telecommunications traffic. The Royal Telecommunications Office (Koenigliches Fernmeldeamt) administers these arrangements on behalf of the Koenigreich.
The parties agreed that specific operational provisions of the treaty would be subject to classification under the respective national security frameworks of each party. This is consistent with the practice in other bilateral border arrangements involving sensitive geographic or military data.