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 MULTILATERAL-NARCOTIC DRUGS. JULY 13, 1931. group (a) of Group I), or whether it is convertible into such a drug (and is in consequence assimilable to the drugs mentioned in sub-group (6) of Group lor in Group II). 4. In the event of the Health Committee deciding that the product is not itself a drug capable of producing addiction, but is convertible into such a drug, the question whether the drug in question shall fall under sub-group (b) of Group I or under Group II shall be referred for decision to a body of three experts competent to deal with the · scientific and technical aspects of the matter, of whom one member shall he selected by the Government concerned, one by the Opium Advisory Committee of the League, and the third by the two members e~ed. . 5. Any decisions arrived at in accordance with the two preceding paragraphs shall be notified to the Secretary-General of the League -of Nations, who will communicate it to all the Members of the League and to the non-member States mentioned in Article 27. 6. If the decisions are to the effect that the product in question is capable of producing addiction or is convertible into a drug capable of producing addiction, the High Contracting Parties will, upon receipt of the communication from the Secretary-General, apply to the drug the appropriate regime laid down in the present Convention according as to whether it falls under Group I or under Group II. 7. Any such decisions may be revised, in accordance with the fore- going procedure, in the light of further experience, on an application addressed by any High Contracting Party to the Secretary-General. Article lB. 1567 1. No import of any of the drugs into the territories of any High 8t:i:ro~.lUldelportre. Contracting Party or export from those territories shall take place except in accordance with the provisions of this Convention. 2. The imports in anyone year into any country or territory of any of the drugs shall not exceed the total of the estimates as defined in Article 5 and of the amount exported from that country or territory during the year, less the amount manufactured in that country or tenitory in that year. CHAPTER V.- C ONTROL. Article 19. 1. (a) The High Contracting Parties shall apply to all the drugs in Group I the provisions of the Geneva Convention which are thereby applied to substances specified in its fourth Article (or provisions in conformity therewith). The High Contracting Parties shall also apply these provisions to preparations made from morphine and cocaine and covered by Article 4 of the Geneva Convention and to all other preparations made from the other drugs in Group I except such preparations as may be exempted from the provisions of the Geneva Convention under its eighth Article. Control. ProvisiOns of Geneva CODventioD to apply.