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 61 STAT.] MULTILATERAL-NARCOTIC DRUGS-DEC. 11, 1946 ANNEX TO THE PROTOCOL AMENDING THE AGREEMENTS, CONVENTIONS AND PROTOCOLS ON NARCOTIC DRUGS CONCLUDED AT THE HAGUE ON 23 JANUARY 1912, AT GENEVA ON 11 FEBRUARY 1925 AND 19 FEBRUARY 1925, AND 13 JULY 1931, AT BANGKOK ON 27 NOVEMBER 1931 AND AT GENEVA ON 26 JUNE 1936 1. AGREEMENT CONCERNING THE MANUFACTURE OF, INTERNAL TRADE IN, AND USE OF PREPARED OPIUM, WITH PROTOCOL AND FINAL ACT, SIGNED AT GENEVA ON 11 FEBRUARY 1925 In articles 10, 13, 14 and 15 of the Agreement, "the Secretary- General of the United Nations" shall be substituted for "the Secretary-General of the League of Nations" and "the Secretariat of the United Nations" shall be substituted for "the Secretariat of the League of Nations". In articles 3 and 4 of the Pro- tocol, "the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations" shall be substituted for "the Council of the League of Nations". 2. INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION RELATING TO DANGEROUS DRUGS, WITH PROTOCOL, SIGNED AT GENEVA ON 19 FEBRUARY 1925 For article 8, the following article shall be substituted: "In the event of the World Health Organization, on the advice of an expert committee appointed by it, finding that any preparation containing any of the narcotic drugs referred to in the present chapter cannot give rise to the drug habit on account of the medicaments with which the said drugs are compounded and which in prac- tice preclude the recovery of the said drugs, the World Health Organization shall communicate this finding to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. The Council will com- municate the finding to the Contracting Parties, and there- upon the provisions of the present Convention will not be applicable to the preparation concerned." For article 10, the following article shall be substituted: "In the event of the World Health Organization, on the advice of an expert committee appointed by it, finding that any narcotic drug to which the present Convention does not apply is liable to similar abuse and productive of similar ill- effects as the substances to which this chapter of the Con- vention applies, the World Health Organization shall in- form the Economic and Social Council accordingly and recom- mend that the provisions of the present Convention shall be applied to such drug. "The Economic and Social Council shall communicate the said recommendation to the Contracting Parties. Any Con- tracting Party which is prepared to accept the recommendation shall notify the Secretary-Gen- eral of the United Nations, who will inform the other Contract- ing Parties. 2251

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