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 63STAT.] FINLAND-AIR TRANSPORT SERVICES-MAI. 29, 1949 it may request consultation between the competent authorities of both contracting parties, such consultation to begin within a period of sixty days from the date of request. When these authorities mu- tually agree on new or revised conditions affecting the Annex, their recommendations on the matter will come into effect after they have been confirmed by an exchange of diplomatic notes. ARTICLE 11 If a general multilateral air transport Convention accepted by both contracting parties enters into force, the present Agreement shall be amended so as to conform with the provisions of such Convention. ARTICLE 12 Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement or its Annex, any dispute between the contracting parties relative to the interpretation or application of this Agreement or its Annex, which cannot be settled through consultation, shall be submitted for an advisory re- port to a tribunal of three arbitrators, one to be named by each con- tracting party, and the third to be agreed upon by the two arbitrators so chosen, provided that such third arbitrator shall not be a national of either contracting party. Each of the contracting parties shall designate an arbitrator within two months of the date of delivery by either party to the other party of a diplomatic note requesting arbi- tration of a dispute; and the third arbitrator shall be agreed upon within three months of the date of delivery of such note. If the third arbitrator is not agreed upon, within the time limitation indicated, the vacancy thereby created shall be filled by the appointment of a person, designated by the President of the Council of ICAO, from a panel of arbitral personnel maintained in accordance with the practice of ICAO. The executive authorities of the contracting parties will use their best efforts under the powers available to them to put into effect the opinion expressed in any such advisory report. A moiety of the expenses of the arbitral tribunal shall be borne by each party. ARTICLE 13 Changes made by either contracting party in the routes described in the schedule attached, except those which change the points served by its airlines in the territory of the other contracting party, shall not be considered as modification of the Annex. The aeronautical authorities of either contracting party may therefore proceed uni- laterally to make such changes, provided, however, that notice of any change is given without delay to the aeronautical authorities of the other contracting party. If such other aeronautical authorities find that, having regard to the principles set forth in Section VII of the Annex to the present Agreement, interests of their airline or airlines are prejudiced by the carriage by the airline or airlines of the first contracting party of traffic between the territory of the second contracting party and the new point in the territory of the third country, the authorities of the 2553 Amendment. Disputes. Pod, p. 25M4. Changes in routs. Pn, p. 25U.

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