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COPYRIGHT

Annual re- port of Di- rector of In- ternational Bureau

Expenses of the Interna- tional Office to be shared by contract- ing States

Method of

sharing

expenses

national Bureau. . . will make an annual report on his administration, which shall be communicated to all the members of the Union.

The expenses of the Office of the International Union shall be shared by the con- tracting States. Unless a fresh arrangement be made, they cannot exceed a sum of sixty thousand francs a year. This sum may be increased by the decision of one of the Conferences pro- vided for in Article XVII.

The share of the total ex- pense to be paid by each countryshall be determined by the division of the con- tracting and acceding States into six classes, each of which shall contribute in the proportion of a certain number of units, viz. :

First class 25 units

Second class .... 20 units

Third class 15 units

Fourth class .... 10 units

Fifth class 5 units

Sixth class 3 units

These coefficients will be multiplied by the number of States of each class, and the total product thus obtained

ternational Bureau makes an annual report on his ad- ministration, which is com- municated to all the mem- bers of the Union.

Article 23

The expenses of the Of- fice of the International Union are shared by the contracting States. Unless a fresh arrangement be made, they cannot exceed a sum of sixty thousand francs a year. This sum may be increased by the decision of one of the Con- ferences provided for in Art- icle 24.

The share of the total expense to be paid by each country is determined by the division of the contract- ing and acceding States into six classes, each of which contributes in the proportion of a certain num- ber of units, viz. :

First class 25 units

Second class .... 20 units

Third class 15 units

Fourth class .... 10 units

Fifth class 5 units

Sixth class 3 units

These coefficients are multiplied by the number of States of each class, and the total product thus obtained