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 1662 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [59 STAT. now terminated, between representatives of the Royal Norwegian Gov- ernment and the Government of the United States. The terms of this agreement which you have communicated to me are as follows: AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND NORWAY RELATING TO AIR TRANSPORT SERVICES The Governments of the United States of America and Norway signed on October 16, 1933 an air navigation arrangement governing the operation of civil aircraft of the one country in the territory of the other country, in which each party agreed that consent for the opera- tions 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 1933, the two governments hereby conclude the following arrangement covering the operation of scheduled airline services between their respective territories, based on the standard form of agreement for air routes and services included in the Final Act of the International Civil Aviation Conference signed at Chicago on December 7, 1944. ARTICLE 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 imme- diately 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 contracting 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 airlines so designated may be required to qualify before the competent aeronautical authorities of the contract- ing party granting the rights under the laws and regulations normally applied by these authorities before being permitted to engage in the operations contemplated by this agreement; and provided 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. ATICLi 3 In order to prevent discriminatory practices and to assure equality of treatment, both contracting parties agree that:

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