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Rh prejudice to any other arrangement which may be made between the parties interested.

4. Correspondence exchanged in open-mail between two Administrations of the Union are subject to the following transit charges per article, and irrespective of weight or destination, namely:

5. The transit rates specified in the present article do not apply to conveyance within the Union by means of extraordinary services specially established or maintained by one Administration at the request of one or several other Administrations. The conditions of this category of conveyance are regulated by mutual consent between the Administrations concerned.

Moreover, in all cases where the transit, either by land or by sea, is at present gratuitous or subject to more advantageous conditions, such state of things is maintained.

Nevertheless, territorial transit services exceeding 3,000 kilometres may profit by the provisions of paragraph 3 of the present Article.

6. The expenses of transit are borne by the Administration of the country of origin.

7. The general accounting for those expenses takes place on the basis of statements prepared once in every six years, during a period of 28 days to be determined in the Detailed Regulations provided for in Article 20 hereafter.

For the period between the date on which the Convention of Rome comes into force and the date on which the transit statistics mentioned in the Detailed Regulations provided for in Article 20 become operative, transit rates will be paid in accordance with the stipulations of the Convention of Washington.

8. The articles mentioned in paragraphs 3 and 4 of Article 11 hereafter, the reply halves of double postcards returned to the country of origin, articles re-directed or missent, undelivered articles, advices of delivery, post office money orders, and all other documents relative to the postal services are exempt from all charges for territorial or sea transit.

9. When the annual balance of the Transit Accounts between two Administrations does not exceed 1,000 francs, the debtor Administration is relieved of all payment on that account.

1. The rates of postage for the conveyance of postal articles throughout the entire extent of the Union, including their delivery at the residence of the