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 MULTILATERAL-NARCOTIC DRUGS. JULy 13, 1931. (d) The quantity, if any, required by that country or territory for thejurpose of maintaining the reserve stocks at the level specme in the estimates for that 'year; (e) The quantity, if any, reqUIred for the purpose of main- taining the Government stocks at the level specified in the estimates for that year. 1563 2. It is understood that, if at the end of any year, any High Con- beTarmstroBot (talk)DiDg to tracting Party finds that the amount manufactured exceeds the total of the amounts specified above, less any deductions made under Article 7, paragraph 1, such excess shall be deducted from the amount to be manufactured during the following year. In forwarding their annual statistics to the Permanent Central Board, the High Con- tracting Parties shall give the reasons for any such excess. Article 7. There shall be deducted from the total quantity of each drug per- DeductlODll. mitted under Article 6 to be manufactured in any country or territory during anyone year: (i) Any amounts of that drug imported including any returned deliveries of the drug, less qutmtities re-exported. (ii) Any amounts of the drug seized and utilised as such for domestic consumption or for conversion. If it should be impossible to make any of the above deductions during the course of the current year, any amounts remaining in excess at the end of the year shall be deducted from the estimates for the following year. Article 8. The full amount of any of the drugs imported into or manufactured si!:~ COllver· in any country or territory for the purpose of conversion in accordance with the estimates for that country or territory shall, if possible, be utilised for that purpose within the period fOT which the estimate applies. In the event, however, of it being impossible to utilise the full amount for that purpose within the period in question, the portion remaining unused at the end of the year shall be deducted from the estimates for that country or territory for the following year. Article 9. If at the moment when all the provisions of the Convention Shallln~:rO:;ion on exist- have come into force, the then existing stocks of any of the drugs in any country or territory exceeds the amount of the reserve stocks of that drug, which, according to the estimates for that country or territory, it is desired to maintain, such excess shall be deducted from the quantity which, during the year, could ordinarily be imported or manufactured as the case may be under the provisions of this Con- vention. Alternatively, the excess stocks existing at the moment when all the provisions of the Convention shall have come into force shall be 8GG37°-34-I 'T 2-18