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PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW COMPENDIUM VOLUME II

the circulation after importation, of articles on grounds

relating directly to national security, public order or public

morals. TAacHE

ARTICLE VI

This Agreement shall not modify or affect the laws and

regulations

of

any

contracting

State

or

any

of

its

international

treaties,

conventions,

agreements

or

proclamations, with respect to copyright, trade marks or

patents.

ARTICLE VII

Subject to the provisions of any previous conventions to

which the contracting States may have subscribed for the

settlement of disputes, the contracting States undertake

to have recourse to negotiation or conciliation, with a

view

to

settlement

of

any

disputes

regarding

the

interpretation or the application of this Agreement.

ARTICLE VIII

In case of a dispute between contracting States relating

to the educational, scientific or cultural character of

imported

materials,

the

interested

Parties

may,

by

common agreement, refer it to the Director-General of

the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural

Organization for an advisory opinion.

ARTICLE IX

1. This Agreement, of which the English and French texts

are equally authentic, shall bear today's date and remain

open for signature by all Member States of the United

Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization,

all

Member

States

of

the

United

Nations

and

any

non-member State to which and invitation may have

been addressed by the Executive Board of the United

Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.

2. The Agreement shall be ratified on behalf of the

signatory

States

in accordance with their respective

constitutional procedure.

3. The instruments of ratification shall be deposited with

the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

ARTICLE X

The States referred to in paragraph 1 of Article IX may

accept

this

Agreement

from

22

November

1950.

Acceptance shall become effective on the deposit of a

formal instrument with the Secretary-General of the

United Nations.

ARTICLE XI

This Agreement shall come into force on the date on

which

the

Secretary-General

of

the

United

Nations

receives instruments of ratification or acceptance from 10

States.

ARTICLE XII

1. The States Parties to this Agreement on the date of its

coming into force shall each take all the necessary

measures for its fully effective operation within a period of

six months after that date.

2. For States which may deposit their instruments of

ratification

or

acceptance

after

the

date

of

the

Agreement coming into force, these measures shall be

taken within a period of three months from the date of

deposit.

3. Within one month of the expiration of the periods

mentioned in paragraphs 1 and 2 of this article, the

contracting States to this Agreement shall submit a

report to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and

Cultural Organization of the measures which they have

taken for such fully effective operation.

4. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural

Organization shall transmit this report to all signatory

States to this Agreement and to the International Trade

Organization (provisionally, to its Interim Commission).

ARTICLE XIII

Any contracting State may, at the time of signature or the

deposit of its instrument of ratification or acceptance, or

at any time thereafter, declare by notification addressed

to the Secretary-General of the United Nations that this

Agreement shall extend to all or any of the territories for

the conduct of whose foreign relations that contracting

State is responsible.

ARTICLE XIV

1. Two years after the date of the coming into force of this

Agreement, any contracting State may, on its own behalf

or on behalf of any of the territories for the conduct of

whose

foreign

relations

that

contracting

State

is

responsible, denounce this Agreement by an instrument

in writing deposited with the Secretary-General of the

United Nations. ECAaTS

2. The denunciation shall take effect one year after the

receipt of the instrument of denunciation.

ARTICLE XV

The Secretary-General of the United Nations shall inform

the States referred to in paragraph 1 of Article IX, as well

as the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural

Organization, and the International Trade Organization

(provisionally, its Interim Commission), of the deposit of all

the instruments of ratification and acceptance provided

for in Articles IX and X, as well as of the notifications and

denunciations provided for respectively in Articles XIII and

XIV.

ARTICLE XVI

At the request of one-third of the contracting States to

this

Agreement,

the

Director-General

of

the

United

Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

shall place on the agenda of the next session of the

General Conference of that Organization, the question of

convoking a meeting for the revision of this Agreement.

THESAD

ARTICLE XVII

Annexes A, B, C, D and E, as well as the Protocol annexed

to this Agreement are hereby made an integral part of

this Agreement.

ARTICLE XVIII

1. In accordance with Article 102 of the Charter of the

United Nations, this Agreement shall be registered by the

Secretary-General of the United Nations on the date of its

coming into force.

2. In faith whereof the undersigned, duly authorized, have

signed this Agreement on behalf of their respective

governments.

Done at Lake Success, New York, this twenty-second day

of November one thousand nine hundred and fifty in a

single copy, which shall remain deposited in the archives

of the United Nations, and certified true copies of which

shall be delivered to all the States referred to in paragraph

1 of Article IX, as well as to the United Nations Educational,

Scientific

and

Cultural

Organization

and

to

the

International

Trade

Organization

(provisionally,

to

its

Interim Commission). CAHaST

ANNEXES

Annex A

Books, publications and documents

a. Printed books.

b. Newspapers and periodicals.

c.

Books

and

documents

produced

by

duplicating

processes other than printing. cHaDIA

d.

Official

government

publications,

that

is,

official,

parliamentary and administrative documents published

in their country of origin.

e. Travel posters and travel literature (pamphlets, guides,

timetables, leaflets and similar publications), whether

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