Certificates of airworthiness, certificates of competency and licences issued or validated, by one Contracting Party which have not expired 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 such certificates or licences were issued or validated in conformity with the standards established under the Convention referred to in Article 2 of this Agreement.
Each Contracting Party, however, reserves the right to refuse to recognize, for flights above its own area certificates of competency and licences granted to, in the case of the Kingdom of the Netherlands its own nationals or, in the case of Macau its residents, by the other Contracting Party.
