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 MULTILATERAL-NARCOTIC DRUGS. JULY 13,1931. 3. The Permanent Central Board shall each year prepare a state· ment showing, in respect of each country or territory for the preceding year: (a) The estimates in respect of each drug; (b) The amount of each drug consumed; (c) The amount of each drug manufactured; (d) The amount of each drug converted; (e) The amount of each drug imported; (j) The amount of each drug exported; (g) The amount of each drug used for the compounding of pre)?arations, exports of which do not require export author- ISations. If such statement indicates that any High Contracting Party has or may have failed to carry out his obligations under this Convention, the Board shall have the right to ask for explanations, through the Secretary-General of the League of Nations, from that High Con- tracting Party, and the procedure specified in paragraphs 2 to 7 of Article 24 of the Geneva Convention shall apply in any such case. The Board shall, as soon as possible thereafter, publish the state- ment above mentioned together with an account, unless it thinks it unnecessary, of any explanations given or required in accordance with the preceding paragraph and any observations which the Board may desire to make in respect of any such explanation or request for an explanation. The Permanent Central Board shall take all necessary measures to ensure that the statistics and other information which it receives under this Convention shall not be made public in such a manner as to facilitate the operations of speculators or to injure the legitimate commerce of any High Contracting Party. CHAPTER VI. -ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS. Article 16. 1571 Administrative pr0- visions. The High Contracting Parties shall take all necessary legislative or 8, etc., to be 811' other measures in order to give effect within their territories to the provisions of this Convention. The High Contracting Parties shall, if they have not already done so, create a special administration for the purpose of: (a) Applyin~ the provisions of the present Convention; (b) Regulating, supervising and controlling the trade in the drugs; (c) Organising the campaign against drug addiction, by taking all useful steps to prevent its development and to suppress the illicit traffic. Article 16. 1. Each High Contracting Party shall exercise a strict supervision p::~OD b,. e a ch over: (a) The amounts of raw material and manufactured drugs in the possession of each manufacturer for the purpose of the man- ufacture or conversion of any of the drugs or otherwise;