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 MULTILATERAL-PEACE WITH ITALY-FEB. 10, 1947 1427 (a) France shall operate the hydroelectric plants on the Roya in French territory, taking into account as far as reasonably prac- ticable the needs of the plants downstream. France shall inform Italy in advance of the amount of water which it is expected will be available each day, and shall furnish any other informa- tion pertaining thereto; (b) Through bilateral negotiations France and Italy shall develop a mutually agreeable, co-ordinated plan for the exploitation of the water resources of the Roya. 5. A commission or such other similar body as may be agreed shall be established to supervise the carrying out of the plan mentioned in sub- paragraph (b) of Guarantee 4 and to facilitate the execution of Guar- antees 1-4. ANNEX IV Provisions Agreed upon by the Austrian and Italian Governments on September 5, 1946 (Original English text as signed by the two Parties and communicated to the Paris Conference on September 6, 1946) (See Article 10) 1. German-speaking inhabitants of the Bolzano Province and of the neighbouring bilingual townships of the Trento Province will be assured complete equality of rights with the Italian-speaking inhabitants, within the framework of special provisions to safeguard the ethnical character and the cultural and economic development of the German-speaking element. In accordance with legislation already enacted or awaiting enactment the said German-speaking citizens will be granted in particular: (a) elementary and secondary teaching in the mother-tongue; (b) parification of the German and Italian languages in public offices and official documents, as well as in bilingual topographic naming; (c) the right to re-establish German family names which were italian- ized in recent years; (d) equality of rights as regards the entering upon public offices, with a view to reaching a more appropriate proportion of employment between the two ethnical groups. 61 STAT.]

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