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- Each Contracting Party shall have the right by written notification through Diplomatic Channels to the other Contracting Party to designate an airline or airlines to operate air services on the routes specified in the Annex and to substitute another airline for an airline previously designated.
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- On receipt of such notification, each Contracting Party shall, without delay, grant to an airline so designated by the other Contracting Party the appropriate operating authorizations subject to the provisions of this Article.
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- Upon receipt of the operating authorization of sub-article (2), a designated airline may at any time begin to operate the agreed services, in part or in whole, provided that it complies with the provisions of this Agreement and that tariffs for such services have been established in accordance with the provisions of Article 8 of this Agreement.
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- For the purpose of granting the appropriate operating authorisation under sub-article (2), the aeronautical authority of one Contracting Party may require an airline designated by the other Contracting Party to satisfy it that it is qualified to fulfil the conditions prescribed under the laws and the regulations normally applied to the operation of international air services by such authority in conformity with the provisions of the Convention.
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- Each Contracting Party shall have the right to refuse to grant the operating authorization referred to in sub-article (2), or to grant this authorization under conditions that may be deemed necessary on the exercise by a designated airline of the rights specified in Article 2 of this Agreement, if it is not satisfied that substantial ownership and effective control of the airline are vested in the Contracting Party designating it or in its nationals or in both.