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- Each Contracting Party shall have the right to designate by diplomatic note to the other Contracting Party one or more airlines for the purpose of operating the agreed services on the specified routes.
- 2
- On receipt of such designation, the aeronautical authorities of the other Contracting Party shall, without delay, and subject to the provisions of paragraphs 3 and 4 of this Article, grant to an airline designated in accordance with paragraph 1 of this Article the appropriate operating authorisations.
- 3
- The aeronautical authorities of one Contracting Party may require an airline designated by the other Contracting Party to satisfy them that it is qualified to fulfil the conditions prescribed under the laws and regulations normally and reasonably applied to the operation of international air services by such authorities in conformity with the provisions of the Convention.
- 4
- Each Contracting Party shall have the right to refuse to grant the operating authorisations referred to in paragraph 2 of this Article, or to impose such conditions as it may deem necessary on the exercise by a designated airline of the rights specified in Article III of this Agreement, in any case where the said Contracting Party is not satisfied that substantial ownership and effective control of that airline are vested in the Contracting Party designating the airline or in nationals of such Contracting Party or in both.
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- When an airline has been so designated and authorised, it may at any time operate the agreed services for which it is designated provided that a tariff established in accordance with the provisions of Article VIII of this Agreement shall be in force in respect of those services.
