Certificates of airworthiness, certificates of competency and licenses issued, or rendered in reciprocity, by one Contracting Party, including, in the case of the European part of the Netherlands, in accordance with EU laws and regulations, and still valid, shall be recognized as valid by the other Contracting Party for the purpose of operating the Agreed Services on the Specified Routes, provided that the requirements under which such certificates and licenses were issued, or rendered in reciprocity, are equal to or higher than the minimum requirements which are, or may be in the future, established under the Convention.
Each Contracting Party, however, reserves the right to refuse to recognize, for flights above its Territory, certificates of competency and licenses granted to or validated for its own nationals by the other Contracting Party.