제16163호                              관                보                   2006. 1. 3. (화요일)

3 The amount of the transfers shall be             Article 14
 unlimited, unless the postal administrations      Transmission of orders
 concerned decide otherwise.                       1 Transfers shall be carried out by means of
4 The issuing postal administration shall be           the electronic networks provided for either
 entirely free to specify the documents and            by the International Bureau of the UPU or
 methods for the issuing of transfers.                 by other organizations, on the basis of
Article 12                                             technical specifications adopted by the
Charges                                                administrations concerned.
1 The issuing postal administration shall          2 The security and the quality of the
 freely decide the charge to be collected at           exchanges must be guaranteed, either by
 the time of issue. To this principal charge,          the technical specifications relative to the
 it shall add any charges pertaining to                networks used, or by bilateral agreements
 special services rendered to the sender.              between the issuing and paying postal
2 Transfers of funds exchanged between a               administrations.
 contracting party and a non-contracting           3 Postal administrations may agree to
 party. through the intermediary of a country          exchange transfers by means of paper-
 party to this agreement, may be subjected             based    forms,    provided     for   in   the
 by the intermediary administration to an              Regulations, and sent by priority mail.
 additional amount. The amount of this             4 Postal administrations may agree to use
 charge shall be agreed between the                    other means of exchange.
 administrations concerned and deducted            Article 15
 from the amount of the transfer. However.         Treatment in the destination country
 this charge may be collected from the             1 Incoming transfers shall be treated
 sender and allocated to the administration            according to the regulations of the
 of the intermediary country if the postal             destination country.
 administrations concerned have so agreed.         2 As a general rule, the fees in the destination
3 Documents, instruments and payment orders            country shall be paid for by the beneficiary;
 pertaining      to   postal   fund   transfers        however, this charge could be collected
 exchanged between postal administrations              from the sender and allocated to the postal
 by mail under the terms of articles RL 110            administration of the destination country,
 and 111 shall be exempt from all charges.             according to bilateral agreement.
Article 13                                         Article 16
Obligations of the issuing postal                  Remuneration of the paying postal
administration                                     administration
1 The issuing postal administration shall meet     1 For each transfer, the paying postal
 service standards stipulated in the                   administration may request payment of an
 Regulations in order to provide satisfactory          arrival charge. This charge may either be
 services to the customers.                            debited to the payee’s account or taken

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