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   system may request for bulk mail received          country or a TRAC 1 country, as the case
   a payment of 0.147 SDR per item and                may be, with regard to the Quality of
   1.491 SDR per kilogramme.                          Service      Fund.     The    Council      of
4 No reservations may be made to this article,        Administration shall revise and update
 except within the framework of a bilateral           annually the list of UPU member countries
 agreement.                                           and territories coming within the Union.
Article 31                                        3 Terminal dues, except for M bags and bulk
Quality of Service Fund                               mail items, payable by countries and
1 Terminal dues payable by all countries and          territories classified by Congress as
 territories to the countries defined as Least        industrialized countries for terminal dues
 Developed Countries (LDCs) by ECOSOC,                purposes to the countries and territories
 except for M bags and bulk mail items, shall         classified    by     the   United   Nations
 be increased by 16.5% of the rate of 3.727           Development Programme (UNDP) as TRAC
 SDR per kilogramme given in article 30 for           1 countries other than LDCs shall be
 payment into the Quality of Service Fund             increased by 8% of the rate of 3.727 SDR
 (QSF) for improving the quality of service           per kilogramme given in article 30 for
 in the LDCs. There shall be no such                  payment into the QSF for improving the
 payment from one LDC to another LDC.                 quality of service of the TRAC 1 countries
2 Member countries of the UPU and territories         other than LDCs.
 coming within the Union shall be able to         4 Terminal dues, except for M bags and bulk
 make well-founded requests to the Council            mail items, payable by countries and
 of Administration for their countries and            territories classified by Congress as
 territories to be considered as being in need        industrialized countries for terminal dues
 of additional resources. Countries classified        purposes to the countries and territories
 as TRAC 1 (former DCs) may petition the              classified by the same Congress as
 CA to receive QSF funds on the same terms            developing countries other than those in
 as least developed countries (LDCs).                 paragraphs 1 and 3 shall be increased by
 Further, countries classified by the UNDP            1% of the rate of 3.727 SDR per kilogramme
 as Net Contributor Countries (NCCs) may              given in article 30 for payment into the QSF
 petition the CA to receive QSF funds on the          for improving the quality of service.
 same terms as TRAC 1 countries. Accepted         5 The TRAC 1 countries and territories may
 requests granted under this article shall            seek to improve their quality of service
 take effect on the first day of the calendar         through regional or multi-country projects
 year following the decision by the CA. The           in favour of LDCs and low-income
 Council of Administration shall assess the           countries in which all parties contributing
 request and take a decision, according to            QSF funding to the projects would directly
 strict criteria, on whether or not a country         benefit.
 can be considered to be a least developed        6 Regional projects should in particular

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