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 1462 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [58 STAT. ment of the United States at the International Civil Aviation Con- ference in Chicago. The terms of this agreement which you have communicated to me are as follows: AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND DENMARK RELATING TO AIR TRANSPORT SERVICES The Governments of the United States of America and Denmark signed on March 12 and 24, 1934, an air navigation arrangement relating to the operation of civil aircraft of the one country in the territory of the other country, in which each party agreed that con- sent for the operations over its territory by air transport companies of the other party might not be refused on unreasonable or arbitrary grounds. Pursuant to the aforementioned arrangement of 1934, the Government of the United States of America and the Danish Minister in Washington on behalf of Denmark hereby conclude the following supplementary arrangement covering the operation of scheduled air- line services: ABCrroE 1 The contracting parties grant the rights specified in the Annex hereto necessary for establishing the international civil air routes and services therein described, whether such services be inaugurated immediately or at a later date at the option of the contracting party to whom the rights are granted. ARTICLE 2 (a) Each of the air services so described shall be placed in opera- tion as soon as the contracting party to whom the rights have been granted by Article 1 to designate an airline or airlines for the route concerned has authorized an airline for such route, and the contract- ilg party granting the rights shall, subject to Article 6 hereof, be bound to give the appropriate operating permission to the airline or airlines concerned; provided that the airline so designated may be required to qualify before the competent aeronautical authorities of the contracting party granting the rights under the laws and regula- tions normally applied by these authorities before being permitted to engage in the operations contemplated by this agreement; and pro- vided that in areas of hostilities or of military occupation, or in areas affected thereby, such inauguration shall be subject to the approval of the competent military authorities. (b) It is understood that either contracting party granted com- mercial rights under this agreement should exercise them at the earliest practicable date except in the case of temporary inability to do so.

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