- (1)
- The agreed services on any specified route may be inaugurated immediately or at a later date at the option of the Contracting Party to which the rights are granted under Article 3 of the present Agreement, but not before
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- (a)the Contracting Party to which the rights have been granted has designated an airline or airlines for that route, and
- (b)the Contracting Party granting the rights has given the appropriate operating permission to the airline or airlines concerned; which it shall, subject to the provisions of paragraph (2) of this Article and of paragraph (1) of Article 7, be bound to grant without delay.
- (2)
- Each of the airlines designated may be required to satisfy the aeronautical authorities of the other Contracting Party that it is qualified to fulfil the conditions prescribed by the laws and regulations normally and reasonably applied by those authorities to the operation of international air services.