Source: https://iea.uoregon.edu/coded-agreement-with-all-codes/2610
Timestamp: 2019-04-22 10:05:51+00:00

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Pre.8 M. Paul VAN ZEELAND, Prime Minister, Minister for Foreign Affairs and External Trade.
Pre.12 M. Julio LÓPEZ OLIVÁN, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Swiss Federal Council.
Pre.14 Dr. V. DROUIN, Head of the Veterinary Service at the Ministry of Agriculture.
Pre.18 Professor C. BISANTI, Veterinary Inspector-General at the Ministry of the Interior.
Pre.28 Dr. G. FLÜCKIGER, Director of the Federal Veterinary Office.
Pre.34 Vladimir POTEMKINE, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the President of the French Republic.
Art.1.0x The High Contracting Parties undertake to enact the necessary legislation and take the necessary administrative measures for ensuring joint and effective action against the appearance and spread of contagious diseases of animals.
Art.1.1x.5 5) The penalties to be imposed in the event of an infringement of the measures enacted.
Art.3.1 I) The Government veterinary health service should be under the authority of a chief veterinary officer directly, responsible to the competent Minister.
Art.3.2 2) The number and the duties of Government veterinary officers and of veterinary surgeons approved by the State for certain official duties should, regard being had to the extent of stock-breeding, the area of land under cultivation, and the volume of traffic, be such as to ensure effective and rapid veterinary supervision of the whole territory, which should be divided up into definite geographical sanitary districts, as well as of all the domestic animals.
Art.3.3 3) Government veterinary officers or veterinary surgeons approved for certain duties should hold a State diploma in veterinary medicine or a diploma recognised by the State.
Art.3.3.ax Only veterinary surgeons who are employed and paid by the State may be regarded as Government veterinary officers.
Art.3.3.bx In exceptional cases, other veterinary surgeons may be entrusted with certain duties provided that the State is responsible for any action they may take.
Art.3.4 4) Veterinary inspection at the frontier should be carried out only by Government veterinary officers or veterinary surgeons approved by the State for that purpose.
Art.3.5 5) a) In principle, the inspection of meat intended for sale and public consumption must be entrusted to approved veterinary surgeons placed under the supervision of the Government veterinary service.
Art.3.5.b b) Veterinary health inspection of meat and meat preparations intended for export must be carried out by Government veterinary officers or veterinary surgeons approved by the State for that purpose.
Art.9.1 1. If there should arise between the High Contracting Parties a dispute of any kind relating to the interpretation or application of the present Convention, and if such dispute cannot be satisfactorily settled by diplomacy, it shall be settled in accordance with any applicable agreements in force between the Parties providing for the settlement of international disputes.
Art.10.1x The present Convention, of which the English and French texts are both authoritative, shall bear this day's date.
Art.15.1 1. The duration of the present Convention shall be for two years from its entry into force.
Art.15.2 2. It shall remain in force for a further period of four years, and subsequently in respect of such Contracting Parties as have not denounced it at least six months before the expiry of the period.
Art.16.1 1. In the absence of a contrary declaration by one of the High Contracting Parties at the time of signature, ratification or accession, the provisions of the present Convention shall not apply to colonies, protectorates, overseas territories, territories under its suzerainty or territories in respect of which a mandate has been entrusted to it.
Art.16.3 3. They further reserve the right to denounce the Convention separately, in accordance with the provisions of Article 15.
Art.17.1 1. Conferences for the revision of the present Convention may be called with a view to making such changes therein as experience may have shown to be useful.
Art.17.2.ax The latter shall indicate succinctly the changes they propose and the reasons for such changes.
Art.17.3 3. In default of the unanimous consent of the High Contracting Parties, no demand for the calling of a conference for the revision of the present Convention within less than two years from the entry into force of the Convention or four years from the end of a previous Conference for its revision shall be admissible.
Conc.3 Austria: E. PFLÜGL. Belgium: Paul VAN ZEELAND. Bulgaria: N. ANTONOFF. Spain: J. LÓPEZ OLIVÁN. France: V. DROUIN. Greece: Raoul BIBICA-ROSETTI. Italy: C. BISANTI. Latvia: J. FELDMANS. The Netherlands: C. VAN RAPPARD. Poland: Titus KOMARNICKI. Roumania: C. ANTONIADE. Switzerland: FLÜCKIGER. Czechoslovakia: Rodolphe KÜNZL-JIZERSKÝ; Turkey: Cemal HÜSNÜ TARÂY. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: V. POTEMKINE.

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