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 1380 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [59 STAT. facilities and improving the use of these facilities for the successful fulfilment of military requirements. 21. The Organisation shall arrange for consultation through appropriate machinery with representatives of persons employed in inland transport on international questions of mutual concern to the Organisation and such representatives within the field of the Organisa- tion's activities. Miscellaneous. 22. The Organisation may advise the Governments concerned and the appropriate authorities of the United Nations on the priority to be given, in the interests of the rehabilitation of European transport, to the repatriation of displaced transport personnel and to workers required for the production, maintenance or repair of transport equipment and material. 23. The Organisation shall give all practicable assistance through the appropriate authorities to any Government concerned at its request in obtaining supplies of fuel, power and lubricants to meet the needs of traffic of common concern, in order that that Government may Pot, p. 1382. fulfil its obligations under paragraph 7 of Article VIII. ARTICLE VIII-Obligations of Member Governments. Information. 1. Every member Government, in respect of territory which is in the field of activity of the Organisation, shall, upon request of the Organisation, provide it with such information as is essential for the performance of its functions. Restoration of Transport Equipment and Material. 2. Every member Government, in respect of territory which is in the field of activity of the Organisation, undertakes that:- Ante, p. 1376. (i) it will facilitate the execution of paragraph 7 of Article VII; (ii) except with the consent of the Organisation, it will neither seize nor make use of- (a) transport equipment and material in Continental Europe found outside the territories under its au- thority, even though such equipment and material may belong to it or to any of its nationals; provided that this sub-paragraph shall not debar any member Government or any of its nationals from continuing the management of its or his own inland vessels; (b) transport equipment and material found within territory under its authority but not belonging to it or any of its nationals, provided that a member Government may make temporary use of enemy or ex-enemy transport equipment and material pending any arrangements that may be made in accordance with Ane, p. 137 the provisions of paragraph 5 of Article VII and with-

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