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- Each Contracting Party shall apply this Agreement in accordance with its international obligations. The application of this Agreement shall be without prejudice to the application by the Kingdom of the Netherlands, as Member State of the European Union, of the law of the European Union, as amended or supplemented.
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- Each Contracting Party, without prejudice to the obligations of the Kingdom of the Netherlands 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, tramp and bulk 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, tramp and bulk trade between the two countries and between either country and third countries.