Národní shromáždění československé / Poslanecká sněmovna1925 – 1929

At the moment of signing the International Agreement relating to the Exportation of Bones, concluded this day, the undersigned, duly authorised, have agreed on the following provisions, which are intended to ensure the application of that Agreement:

The provisions of the Agreement relative to the Exportation of Bones of this days date shall apply to prohibitions and restrictions on the exportation of the products mentioned in Article 1 of the said Agreement from the territories of any High Contracting Party to the territories of any other High Contracting Party.

Ad article 1.

(a) The provisions of Article 1 shall apply to Italy only in so far as concerns gluestock hide.

As regards the other goods mentioned in the said Article, the High Contracting Parties, recognising that Italy, by reason of conventions concluded with certain countries, is unable to increase her export duty of two paper lire, agree that she may maintain the prohibition at present in force, so long as the stipulation concerning the said rate of export duty also remains in farce.

(b) "Bone waste" includes parings of bone (commonly known as "dentelles") used in the manufacture of. buttons and similar articles.

Ad article 2.

As regards the application of Article 2, the High Contracting Parties, recognising the special situation of Austria, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia, authorise these countries, notwithstanding the provisions of the said Article 2, to impose an export duty which may exceed the rate of 1.50 Swiss francs, provided for in that Article, but which must not in an; case exceed 3 Swiss francs.

Ad article 3.

In consideration of the annexed declarations signed by the delegates of Poland, Romania and the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, the High Contracting Parties agree that these countries shall be provisionally released from all obligations as regards export duties on the products referred to in Article 1 of the Agreement of this days date.

(Translation.)

The Polish Government having, under the terms of Section III of the Protocol, ad Article 3 above, been accorded the right to maintain or levy, without any limitation as to rates, an export duty on the products referred to in Article 1 of the Agreement of this days date, willingly gives an assurance that it will not increase the rates at present in force and will make every effort to reduce these rates progressively in the future.

(Translation.)

While reserving the right to maintain export duties on raw and dried bones and waste, thereof, the Romanian Government declares that it has no intention whatever of maintaining in respect of these commodities, by means of excessive export duties, the prohibition which has been abolished; it merely desires to retain full liberty with a view to arriving at a normal situation by the gradual reduction of export duties, a course which it has already pursued in the case of other raw materials.

(Translation.)

The Serb-Croat-Slovene Government having, under the terms of Section III of the Protocol, ad Article 3 above, been accorded the right to maintain or levy, without any limitations as to rates, an export duty on the products referred to in Article 1 of the Agreement of this days date, willingly gives an assurance that it will rot exceed the rate of 4 Swiss francs and will make every effort to reduce this rate progressively in the future.

Ad articles 2, 3 and 4.

The High Contracting Parties agree that glue-stock hide shall not be assimilated to the products referred to in Articles 2, 3 and 4 and that, except in the case of the countries referred to in Section III of the present Protocol, no export duty shall be levied on gluestock hide. They agree, however, that Hungary may levy on this product an export duty which shall not in any case exceed two-thirds of the duties applicable to the products referred to in Article I of the Agreement of this days date.

In faith whereof the Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Protocol.

Done at Geneva on the eleventh day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight, in a single copy, which shall be deposited in the archives of the Secretariat of the League of Nations, and of which certified true copies shall be delivered to all Members of the League of Nations.