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

 remuneration for administrations performing            legislation is as yet incompatible with the
 the services, must be based on reliable and            proposed amendment may, within ninety
 representative economic and financial data.            days from the date of notification of the
 Any change decided upon shall enter into               latter, make a written declaration to the
 force at a date set by the Postal Operations           Director General of the International
 Council.                                               Bureaustating that it is unable to accept the
 Part IV                                                amendment.
 Final provisions                                   Article 37
Article 36                                          Reservations at Congress
Conditions for approval of proposals                1 Any reservation which is incompatible with
concerning    the      Convention      and   the        the object and purpose of the Union shall
Regulations                                             not be permitted.
1 To become effective, proposals submitted to       2 As a general rule, any member country
 Congress relating to this Convention must              whose views are not shared by other
 be approved by a majority of the member                member countries shall endeavour, as far as
 countries present and voting which have the            possible, to conform to the opinion of the
 right to vote. At least half of the member             majority. Reservations should be made only
 countries represented at Congress and                  in cases of absolute necessity, and proper
 having the right to vote shall be present at           reasons given.
 the time of voting.                                3 Reservations to any article of the present
2 To become effective, proposals relating to            Convention shall be submitted to Congress
 the Letter Post Regulations and the Parcel             as a Congress proposal written in one of the
 Post Regulations must be approved by a                 working languages of the International
 majority of the members of the Postal                  Bureau and in accordance with the relevant
 Operations Council having the right to vote.           provisions of the Rules of Procedure of
3 To become effective, proposals introduced             Congresses.
 between Congresses relating to this                4 To become effective, proposals concerning
 Convention and to its Final Protocol must              reservations must be approved by whatever
 obtain:                                                majority is required for amendment of the
 3.1 two thirds of the votes, at least one half         article to which the reservation relates.
   of the member countries of the Union             5 In principle, reservations shall be applied on
   which have the right to vote having taken            a reciprocal basis between the reserving
   part in the vote, if they involve                    member country and the other member
   amendments;                                          countries.
 3.2 a majority of the votes if they involve        6 Reservations to the present Convention
   interpretation of the provisions.                    shall be inserted in the Final Protocol to the
4 Notwithstanding the provisions under 3.1,             present Convention, on the basis of
 any member country whose national                      proposals approved by Congress.

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