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 TREATIES ARTICLE XI Increase of Guaranteed Quantities by Consent The Council may at any time, upon request by an exporting or importing country, approve an increase in the figures in one Annex for the remaining period of this Agreement if an equal increase is made in the other Annex for that period, provided that the exporting and importing countries whose figures would thereby be changed consent. ARTICLE XII Additional Purchases in Case of Critical Need In order to meet a critical need which has arisen or threatens to arise in its territory, an importing country may appeal to the Council for assistance in obtaining supplies of wheat in addition to its guaranteed purchases. On consideration of such an appeal the Council may reduce pro rata the guaranteed quantities of the other importing coun- tries in order to provide the quantity of wheat which it determines to be necessary to relieve the emergency created by the critical need, provided that it considers that such emergency cannot be met in any other manner. Two-thirds of the votes cast by the exporting coun- tries and two-thirds of the votes cast by the importing countries shall be required for any reduction of guaranteed purchases under this paragraph. PART 4-ADMINISTRATION ARTICLE XIII The Council A. Constitution 1. An International Wheat Council is hereby established to admin- ister this Agreement. 2. Each exporting country and each importing country shall be a voting member of the Council and may be represented at its meetings by one delegate, one alternate, and advisers. 3. Any country which the Council recognizes as an irregular ex- porter or an irregular importer of wheat may become a non-voting member of the Council, provided that it accepts the obligations pre- Ante, p. 2185. scribed in Article VIII and agrees to pay such membership fees as shall be determined by the Council. Each country which is a non- voting member of the Council shall be entitled to have one repre- sentative at its meetings. 4. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the International Trade Organization, the Interim Coordinating Committee for International Commodity Arrangements, and such other intergovernmental organizations as the Council may decide, shall each be entitled to have one non-voting representative at meet- ings of the Council. chaiman; Vice 5. The Council shall elect for each crop-year a Chairman and a Vice Chairman. 2188 [63 STAT.

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