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[接上页] (c) The Annex to the present Convention shall form an integral part thereof, and any reference to the Convention shall be deemed to include a reference to the Annex. Article XIV The Contracting Parties accept the provisions of the Protocol concerning the European Customs Union Study Group opened for signature at Brussels on the same date as the present Convention. In determining the scale of contributions provided for in Article XII (b), the Council shall take into consideration membership of the Study Group. Article XV The present Convention shall be open for signature until 31st March, 1951. Article XVI (a) The present Convention shall be subject to ratification. (b) Instruments of ratification shall be deposited with the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which shall notify all signatory and acceding Governments and the Secretary General of each such deposit. Article XVII (a) When instruments of ratification have been deposited by seven of the signatory Governments, the present Convention shall come into force between them. (b) For each signatory Government ratifying thereafter the present Convention shall come into force upon deposit of its instrument of ratification. Article XVIII (a) The Government of any State which is not a signatory to the present Convention may accede thereto as from 1st April, 1951. (b) Instruments of accession shall be deposited with the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which shall notify all signatory and acceding Governments and the Secretary General of each such deposit. (c) The present Convention shall come into force for any acceding Government on the deposit of its instrument of accession, but not before it comes into force in accordance with paragraph (a) of Article XVII. Article XIX The present Convention is of unlimited duration, but at any time after the expiry of five years from its entry into force under paragraph (a) of Article XVII, any Contracting Party may withdraw therefrom. Withdrawal shall take effect one year after the date of receipt by the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the notification of withdrawal. The Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs shall notify each withdrawal to all signatory and acceding Governments and to the Secretary General. Article XX (a) The Council may recommend amendments to the present Convention to the Contracting Parties. (b) Any Contracting Party accepting an amendment shall notify the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in writing of its acceptance and the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs shall notify all signatory and acceding Governments and the Secretary General of the receipt of the notice of acceptance. (c) An amendment shall come into force three months after receipt by the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs of notice of acceptance by all the Contracting Parties. When any amendment has been accepted by all the Contracting Parties the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs shall notify all signatory and acceding Governments and the Secretary General of such acceptance and of the date on which the amendment will come into force. (d) After an amendment has come into force, no Government may ratify or accede to the present Convention unless it also accepts the amendment. IN WITNESS WHEREOF the undersigned, having been duly authorised thereto by their respective Governments, have signed the present Convention. DONE at Brussels on the fifteenth day of December, nineteen hundred and fifty (December 15th, 1950) in the English and French languages, both texts being equally authentic, in a single original, which shall be deposited in the archives of the Government of Belgium which shall transmit certified copies thereof to each signatory and acceding Government. (Signatures omitted) ANNEX Legal Capacity, Privileges and Immunities of the Council Article I Definitions Section 1 In this Annex: (i) For the purposes of Article III, the words ?property and assets? shall also include property and funds administered by the Council in furtherance of its constitutional functions; (ii) For the purposes of Article V, the expression ?representatives of Members? shall be deemed to include all representatives, alternates, advisers, technical experts and secretaries of delegations. Article II Juridical personality Section 2 The Council shall possess juridical personality. It shall have the capacity: (a) to contract, (b) to acquire and dispose of immovable and movable property, (c) to institute legal proceedings. In these matters the Secretary General shall act on behalf of the Council. Article III Property, funds and assets Section 3 The Council, its property and assets, wherever located and by whomsoever held, shall enjoy immunity from every form of legal process except in so far as in any particular case it has expressly waived its immunity. It is, however, understood that no waiver of immunity shall extend to any measure of execution. |