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 MULTILATERAL-NARCOTIO DRUGS. JULY 13, 1931. (b) The quantities of the drugs or preparations containing the drugs ~roduced; (c) The disposal of the drugs and preparations so produced with especial reference to deliveries from the factories. 2. No High Contracting Party shall allow the accumulation in the possession of any manufacturer of quantities of raw materials in excess of those required for the economic conduct of business, having regard to the prevailing market conditions. The amounts of raw material in the possession of any manufacturer at anyone time shall not exceed the amounts required by that manufacturer for manufac- ture during the ensuing six months, unless the Government, after due investigation, considers that exceptional conditions warrant the accu- mulation of additional amounts, but in no case shall the total quanti- ties which may be accumulated exceed one year's supply. Article 17. 1573 Each High Contracting Party shall require each manufacturer q~l~r: within his territories to submit quarterly reports stating: faeturer. (a) The amount of raw materials and of each of the drugs received into the factory by such manufacturer and the quantities of the drugs, or any other products whatever, produced from each of these substances. In reporting the amounts of raw materials so received, the manufacturer sh8ll state the proportion of mor- phine, cocaine or ecgonine contained in or producible therefrom as determined by a method prescribed by the Government and under conditions considered satisfac'oory by the Government; (b) The quantities of either the raw material or the products manufactured therefrom which were disposed of during the quarter; (c) The quantities remaining in stock at the end of the quarter. Each High Contracting Party shall require each wholesaler within his territories to make at the close of each year a report stating, in respect of each of the drugs, the amount of that drug contained in preparations, exported or imported during the year, for the export or import of which authorisations are not required. Article 18. Each High Contracting Party undertakes that any of the drugs in z ures in illicit Group I which are seized by him in the illicit traffic shall be destroyed or converted into non-narcotic substances or appropriated for medical or scientific use, either by the Government or under its control, when these are no longer required for judicial proceedings or other action on the part of the authorities of the State. In all cases diacetylmorphine shall either be destroyed or converted.