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- Each Contracting Party shall apply this Agreement in accordance with its international obligations; in particular the Kingdom of the Netherlands shall apply this Agreement in accordance with the obligations existing under the Treaties establishing the European Communities.
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- Each Contracting Party, without prejudice to its obligations as a Party to the United Nations' Convention on a Code of Conduct for Liner Conferences, shall abstain from any discriminatory measures with respect to the vessels of the other Contracting Party in relation to liner trade between the two countries and shall accord to the vessels of the other Contracting Party treatment no less favourable than that accorded to the vessels of third countries in relation to liner and bulk trade between the two countries and between either country and third countries.