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- The Designated Airline of each Contracting Party shall be allowed:
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- a)to establish in the Territory of the other Contracting Party offices for the promotion and sale of air transportation and ancillary or supplemental services (including the right to sell and to issue any ticket and/or airway bill, both its own tickets and/or airway bills of any other carrier) as well as other facilities required for the provision of air and/or intermodal transportation;
- b)in the Territory of the other Contracting Party to engage directly and, at its discretion, through its agents, and/ or other Airlines in the sale of air and/or intermodal transportation and ancillary or supplemental facilities and services;
- c)to sell such transportation and ancillary or supplemental facilities and services and any person shall be free to purchase such transportation or services in any currency.
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- The Designated Airline of each Contracting Party shall be allowed to bring in and maintain in the Territory of the other Contracting Party its managerial, commercial, operational and technical staff as it may require in connection with the provision of air transportation and ancillary or supplemental facilities and services.
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- These staff requirements may, at the option of the Designated Airline concerned, be satisfied by its own personnel or by using the services of any other organization, company or Airline operating in the Territory of the other Contracting Party, authorized to perform such services in the Territory of that Contracting Party.
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- Subject to the laws and regulations of each Contracting Party including, in the case of the Netherlands, European Union law, each Designated Airline shall have, in the Territory of the other Contracting Party, the right to perform its own ground handling (“self-handing”) or, at its option, the right to select among competing suppliers that provide ground handling services in whole or in part. Where such laws and regulations limit or preclude self-handling and where there is no effective competition between suppliers that provide ground handling services, each Designated Airline shall be treated on a non-discriminatory basis as regards their access to self-handling and ground services provided by a supplier or suppliers.
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- The Airline(s) of each Contracting Party shall be permitted to employ, in connection with air transport, any intermodal transport to or from any points in the Territories of the Contracting Parties or third countries. The Airline(s) may elect to perform their own intermodal transport or to provide it through arrangements, including code share, with other Airlines and/or other surface transport providers. Such intermodal services may be offered as a through services and at a single Price for the air and intermodal transport combined, provided that passengers and shippers are informed as to the providers of the transport involved.
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- The activities mentioned in this Article shall be carried out in accordance with the laws and regulations of the other Contracting Party. In case of the Netherlands this includes applicable European Union law.
