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 Article II                                          Article III
 (Article 1bis added)                                (Article 22 amended)
 Definitions                                         Acts of the Union
1 For the purposes of the Acts of the               1 The Constitution shall be the basic Act of
 Universal Postal Union, the following terms         the Union. It shall contain the organic rules
 shall have the meanings defined below:              of the Union and shall not be subject to
 1.1 Postal service:all postal services,             reservations.
   whose scope is determined by the bodies          2 The General Regulations shall embody
   of the Union. The main obligations of             those    provisions    which    ensure    the
   postal services are to satisfy certain            application of the Constitution and the
   social and economic objectives of
                                                     working of the Union. They shall be binding
   member countries, by ensuring the
                                                     on all member countries and shall not be
   collection, sorting, transmission and
                                                     subject to reservations.
   delivery of postal items.
                                                    3 The Universal Postal Convention, the Letter
 1.2 Member country:a country that fulfills
                                                     Post Regulations and the Parcel Post
   the conditions of article 2 of the
                                                     Regulations shall embody the rules
   Constitution.
                                                     applicable throughout the international
 1.3 Single postal territory (one and the
                                                     postal service and the provisions concerning
   same postal territory):the obligation
                                                     the letter-post and postal parcels services.
   upon the contracting parties to the UPU
                                                     These Acts shall be binding on all member
   Acts to provide for the reciprocal
                                                     countries.
   exchange of letter-post items, including
                                                    4 The Agreements of the Union, and their
   freedom of transit, and to treat postal
   items in transit from other countries like        Regulations, shall regulate the services

   their      own   postal   items,   without        other than those of the letter post and postal

   discrimination.                                   parcels between those member countries

 1.4 Freedom of transit:obligation for               which are parties to them. They shall be

   intermediate postal administrations to            binding on those countries only.

   transport postal items passed on to them         5 The Regulations, which shall contain the
   in transit by another UPU postal                  rules of application necessary for the
   administration,       providing    similar        implementation of the Convention and of the
   treatment to that given to domestic               Agreements, shall be drawn up by the
   items.                                            Postal Operations Council, bearing in mind
 1.5 Letter-post item:items described in             the decisions taken by Congress.
   the Convention.                                  6 The Final Protocols annexed to the Acts of
 1.6 International postal service:postal             the Union referred to in paragraphs 3, 4 and
   operations or services regulated by the           5 shall contain the reservations to those
   Acts; set of these operations or services.        Acts.

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