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- Certificates of airworthiness, certificates of competency and licenses issued or validated in accordance with the laws and regulations of one Contracting Party, including, in the case of the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, in accordance with European Union laws and regulations, and still in force, shall be recognized as valid by the other Contracting Party for the purpose of operating the Agreed Services on the Specified Routes, provided always that the requirements under which such certificates or licences were issued or validated, are at a level equal to or above the minimum standards established under the Convention.
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- Each Contracting Party, however, reserves the right to refuse to recognize, for the purpose of flights above its Territory or landing within its own Territory, certificates of competency and licences granted or validated for its own nationals by the other Contracting Party.
