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Article 28                                             4.3 The administrations in the transitional
Terminal dues. General provisions                        system shall indicate whether they
1 Subject to exemptions provided in the                  authorize access on the conditions
 Regulations, each administration which                  mentioned in 4.1.
 receives letter-post items from another                 4.3.1 When an administration in the
 administration shall have the right to                    transitional system states that it
 collect from the dispatching administration               authorizes access on the conditions
 a payment for the costs incurred for the                  offered in its domestic system, that
 international mail received.                              authorization shall apply to all Union
2 For the application of the provisions                    administrations          on         a        non-
 concerning the payment of terminal dues,                  discriminatory basis.
 postal administrations shall be classified as         4.4 It shall be up to the administration of
 countries and territories in the target                 destination to decide whether the
 system or countries and territories entitled            conditions of access to its domestic
 to be in the transitional system, in                    service    have     been        met       by    the
 accordance with the list drawn up for this              administration of origin.
 purpose by Congress in its resolution C           5 The terminal dues rates for bulk mail shall
 12/2004. In the terminal dues provisions,             not be higher than the most favourable rates
 both countries and territories shall be               applied by administrations of destination
 referred to as countries.                             under bilateral or multilateral agreements
3 The provisions of the present Convention             concerning terminal dues. It shall be up to
 concerning the payment of terminal dues               the administration of destination to decide
 are transitional arrangements, moving                 whether the terms and conditions of access
 towards a country-specific payment                    have been met by the administration of
 system.                                               origin.
4 Access to the domestic service                   6 Terminal dues remuneration shall be based
 4.1 Each administration shall make                    on quality of service performance in the
   available to the other administrations all          country     of   destination.      The       Postal
   the rates, terms and conditions offered in          Operations Council shall therefore be
   its domestic service on conditions                  authorized to supplement the remuneration
   identical to those proposed to its national         in articles 29 and 30 to encourage
   customers.                                          participation in monitoring systems and to
 4.2 A dispatching administration may, on              reward administrations for reaching their
   similar      conditions,     request    the         quality targets. The Postal Operations
   administration in the target system to              Council may also fix penalties in case of
   offer it the same conditions that the latter        insufficient quality, but shall not deprive the
   offers to its national customers for                administrations       of    their       minimum
   equivalent items.                                   remuneration according to articles 29 and

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