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The present Convention shall come into operation on the 1st of October 1907, and shall remain in force for an indefinite period; but each contracting party has the right of withdrawing from the Union by means of a notice given one year in advance by its Government to the Government of the Swiss Confederation.

1. From the date on which the present Convention comes into effect, all the stipulations of the Treaties, Conventions, Agreements, or other Acts previously concluded between the various countries or Administrations, in so far as those stipulations are not in accordance with the terms of the present Convention, are abrogated, without prejudice to the rights reserved by the foregoing Article 21.

2. The present Convention shall be ratified as soon as possible. The acts of ratification shall be exchanged at Rome.

3. In faith of which the plenipotentiaries of the above-named countries have signed the present Convention at Rome on the twenty-sixth of May, one thousand nine hundred and six.


 * For Germany and the German protectorates:
 * For the United States of America and the island possessions of the United States of America:
 * For the Argentine Republic:


 * For Austria:
 * For Belgium:


 * For Bolivia:


 * For Bosnia-Herzegovina:
 * For Brazil:


 * For Bulgaria:
 * For Chile:
 * For the Empire of China:


 * For the Republic of Colombia:


 * For the Independent State of the Congo:


 * For the Empire of Corea:
 * For the Republic of Costa Rica:
 * For Crete: