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 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [59 STAT. session whenever the Executive Board shall deem necessary and shall be convened within thirty days after request by one-third of the mem- bers of the Council. 4. The Council shall perform the functions assigned to it under this Agreement and review the work of the Organisation generally to ensure its conformity with the broad policies determined by the Council. The Executive Board. 5. The Executive Board shall consist of seven members who shall be appointed by the Council. It shall include one member nominated by each of the following Governments, the Provisional Government of the French Republic and the Governments of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and North- ern Ireland and the United States of America. Each member of the Executive Board shall be provided with a deputy similarly nominated and appointed. The members and their deputies shall be appointed for not longer than one year. The Executive Board shall choose its own Chairman, subject to confirmation by the Council. 6. The Executive Board shall perform the executive functions assigned to the Organisation within the framework of the broad policies determined by the Council. It shall act in accordance with the ruling of the majority of its members. It shall present to the Council such reports on the performance of its functions as the Council may require. 7. The Executive Board shall appoint a chief officer to direct the technical and administrative work of the Organisation under its super- vision and in conformity with the broad policies determined by the Council. This officer shall appoint the staff at headquarters, regional and local offices, subject to the approval of the Executive Board, taking into account the exigencies of the various branches of trans- port concerned The responsibilities of the chief officer and staff shall be exclusively international in character. 8. Each member Government may appoint a representative for purposes of consultation and communication with the Executive Board. Such representatives shall be fully informed by the Board of all activities of the Organisation. Each time that any important question is discussed concerning the interests of a member Govern- ment, this representative shall be entitled to take part in the discussion without right of vote. ARTICLE IV. 1. The Organisation shall have power to perform any legal act appropriate to its object and purposes, including the power to acquire, hold and convey property, to enter into contracts and undertake obligations, to designate or create subordinate organs and to review their activity. The Organisation shall not, however, have power to own transport equipment and material, except with the unanimous consent of the Council. 2. These powers are vested in the Council. Subject to the provi- A. P.at 13. sions of paragraph 2 of Article V, the Council may delegate such of 1370

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