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LEMBARAN NEGARA REPUBLIK INDONESIA TAHUN 1997 NOMOR 47

LAMPIRAN
KEPUTUSAN PRESIDEN REPUBLIK INDONESIA
NOMOR 20 TAHUN 1997
TANGGAL 3 JUNI 1997

CONVENTION

relating to international exhibitions

INTERNATIONAL BUREAU OF EXHIBITIONS
56, avenue Victor-Hugo 75783 Paris Cedex 16

CONVENTION
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RELATING TO INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
SIGNED AT PARIS ON 22ND NOVEMBER 1928,
AND SUPPLEMENTED BY THE PROTOCOLS OF 10 TH MAY 1948,
16TH NOVEMBER 1966, 30TH NOVEMBER 1972
AND THE AMENDMENT OF 24TH JUNE 1982
AND THE AMENDMENT OF 31ST MAY 1988

PART I Definitions and Objectives.

ARTICLE 1

1. An exhibition is a display which, whatever its title, has as its principal purpose the
education of the public : it may exhibit the means at man's disposal for meeting
the needs of civilisation, or demonstrate the progress achieved in one or more
branches of human endeavour, or show prospects for the future.
2. An exhibition is international when more than one State takes part in it.
3. Participants in an international exhibition comprise on the one hand exhibitors of
States which are officially represented grouped into national sections, on the other
hand international organizations or exhibitors from countries which are not
officially represented and lastly those who are authorised in accordance with the
regulations of the exhibition to carry on some other activity, in particular those
granted concessions.

ARTICLE 2

This Convention applies to all international exhibitions except :
a)
exhibitions lasting less than three weeks;
b)
fine Arts exhibitions;
c)
exhibitions of an essentially conunercial nature.

Whatever title may be given to an exhibition by its organizers, this Convention
recognizes a distinction between registered exhibitions and recognized exhibitions.

PART II General Conditions governing the organization of International Exhibitions

ARTICLE 3

International exhibitions presenting the following features shall be eligible for
registration by the International Exhibitions Bureau referred to in Article 25 below:

A) Their duration may not be less than six weeks nor more than six months;
B) The rules governing the exhibition buildings used by the participating States shall
be laid down in the general regulations of the exhibition. If a tax is chargeable on
property under the legislation of the inviting State, the organizers shall be
responsible for paying it. Only services actually rendered in accordance with the
regulations approved by the Bureau shall qualify for reimbursement;
C) From 1 January 1995 the interval between two registered exhibitions shall be at
least five years; the first exhibition may be held in 1995. The International
Exhibitions Bureau may nevertheless accept a date not more than one year earlier
than the date resulting from the above provision, to allow celebration of a special
event of international importance, without however altering the five year
interval laid down in the original calendar.

ARTICLE 4

A) International exhibitions presenting the following features shall be eligible for
recognition by the International Exhibitions Bureau:

1. their duration may not be less than three weeks nor more than three months;

2. they must illustrate a definite theme;

3. their total surface area must not exceed 25 ha;

4. they must allocate to the participating States premises constructed by the
organizer, free of all rents, charges, taxes and expenses other than those
representing services rendered; the largest space allocated to a State must not
exceed 1.000 m2. The International Exhibitions Bureau may however authorize
a derogation from the requirement that premises be allocated free of charge if
the economic and financial situation of the organizing State justifies it;

5. only one recognized exhibition, pursuant to this paragraph A, may be held
between two registered exhibitions;

6. only one registered exhibition or exhibition recognized pursuant to this
paragraph A, may be held in the same year.

The International Exhibitions Bureau may also grant recognition to :

1. the Milan Trienmale Exhibition of Decorative Arts and Modern Architecture, on
grounds of historical precedence, provided that it retains its original features;

2. Al horticultural exhibitions approved by the International Association of
Horticultural Producers, provided that there is an interval of at least two years
between such exhibitions in diffrenet countries and at least ten years between
events held in the same country;

due to be held in the interval between two registered exhibitions.

ARTICLE 5

he opening and closing dates of an exhibition and its general features shall be laid
down the time of registration or recognition and may be changed only with the
agreement of the B.I.E.

PART III Registration

ARTICLE 6

The Government of a Contracting Party in whose territory an exhibition coming within
the scope of the Convention is planned (hereinafter referred to as "the inviting
Government") shall send to the Bureau an application for registration or recognition
indicating the laws, regulations or financial measures it proposes to make for the
exhibition. The Government of a non-contracting State wishing to obtain registration
or recognition of an exhibition may apply to the Bureau in the same way provided that
it undertakes to comply with the provisions of the Covention set out in Parts I, II, III
and IV and the regulations made for their implementation.

The application for registration or recognition shall be made by the Government
responsible for the international relations of the place in which the exhibition is
planned to be held (hereinafter referred to as "the inviting Government") even if this
Government is not the organiser of the exhibition.

The Bureau shall in its compulsory regulations determine the maximum period for
which a date for an exhibition may be reserved and the minimum period for receipt of
an application for registration or recognition; it shall also specify the documents which
must accompany such an application. It shall also fix by compulsory regulation the
amount of the contribution to be paid for the costs of examination of the application.

Registration or recognition shall be granted only if the exhibition fulfils the conditions
of this Convention and of the regulations laid down by the Bureau.

ARTICLE 7

1. When two or more countries compete for the registration or recognition of an
exhibition and cannot reach agreement they shall ask the General Assembly of the
Bureau to arbitrate. In arriving at its decision the General Assembly shall take into
account the considerations put forward and, in particular, any special reasons of
an historical or ethical nature, the period which has elapsed since the last
echibition, and the number of displays already organised by the competing
countries.
2. Except in exceptional circumstances the Bureau shall give preference to an
exhibition organised in the territory of a Contracting Party.

ARTICLE 8

A State which has been granted the registration or recognition of an exhibition shall
lose all rights arising from the registration or recognition of it changes the date
reserved for the exhibition except in the circumstances provided for in paragraph 2 of
Article 4, If it wishes to organise the exhibition at another date, the Government
concerned shall make a fresh application, and if necessary, submit to the procedure
laid down in Article 7 for resolving competing claims.

ARTICLE 9.

1. In the case of any exhibition which has not been registered or recognized,
Contracting Parties shall refuse their participation and their patronage as well as
any Government subsidy.
2. Contracting Parties are quite free not to take part in an exhibition which has been
registered or recognized.
3. Each Contracting Government shall use whatever means it considers most
appropriate under its own legislation to act against the organisers of false
exhibitions or exhibitions to which participants might be fraudulently attracted by
false promises, notices or advertisements.

PART V Obligations of Organisers of Registered Exhibitions and of Participating States.

ARTICLE 10

1. The inviting Government shall ensure that the provisions of this Convention and of
the regulations made for its implementation are observed.
2. If the said Government does not itself organise the exhibition it shall officially
recognise the organisers for this purpose and it shall guarantee the fulfilment of
the obligations of the organisers.

ARTICLE 11

1. All invitations to participate in an exhibition, whether they are addressed to
member States or to non-member States, shall be sent through diplomatic
channels by the Government of the organising country to the Government of the
country invited for that country and for the other parties in that country to be
invited. The replies shall be forwarded to the inviting Government by the same
channel, as well as any requests by non-invited parties to participate. The
invitations shall observe the intervals prescribed by the Bureau and shall state
that the exhibition in question has been registered. Invitations to international
organisations shall be sent to them direct.
2. No Contracting Party may organise or sponsor participation in an international
exhibition if the above-mentioned invitations have not been sent in accordance
with the provisions of this Convention.
3. Contracting Parties undertake neither to address nor accept any invitation to
participate in an exhibition, whether on the territory of a Contracting Party, or of
a non-member State, in case where such invitation does not cite a
registration
or recognition approved according to the provision of this Convention.
4. Any Contracting Party may require the organisers not to send invitations to
addressees in its territory other that itself. It may also refrain from forwarding
invitations or requests to participate from parties who have not been invited.

ARTICLE 12

The inviting Government shall appoint a Commissioner-General of the Exhibitions in
the case of a registered exhibition or a Commissioner of the Exhibition in the case of a
recognized exhibition who shall be authorised to represent the Government for all
purposes in connection with the Convention and in all matters concerning the
exhibition.

ARTICLE 13

The Government of any country participating in an exhibition shall appoint a Section
Commissioner-General in the case of a registered exhibition or a Section Commissioner
a the case of a recognized exhibition to represent it with the inviting Government.
The section Commissioner-Ggeneral or the Section Commissioners shall have sole
responsibility for the organisation of his country's exhibit. He shall inform the
Coomissioner-General of the Exhibition or the Commissioner of the Exhibition of the
content of this exhibit and shall see that the rights and obligations of exhibitors are
espected.

ARTICLE 14 (abrogated)

ARTICLE 15 (abrogated)

ARTICLE 16

The Customs regulations for international exhibitions shall be those set out in the
Annex, which forms an integral part of this Convention.

ARTICLE 17

At
an
exhibition
only
the
sections
constituted
under
the
authority
of
Commissioners-General or Commissioners appointed in accordance with Article 13 by
the Governments of the participating countries shall be considered as national and
consequently be entitled to bear this name. A national section comprises all the
exhibitors of the country in question but not the concession-holders.

ARTICLE 18

1. At an exhibition a participant or a group of participants may use a geographical
title relating to a participating
Party only with the authorisation of the
Section Commissioner-General or the Section Commissioner of the Government of
the Party concerned.
2. If
a
Contracting
Party
is
not
participating
in
an
exhibition,
the
Commissioner-General or the Commissioner of the exhibition shall prohibit such
usage as envisaged in the preceding paragraph, on behalf of the Contracting Party.

ARTICLE 19

1. Anything exhibited in a national section must have a close connection with the
country exhibiting it (for example, articles having their origin in the territory of
the participating Government, or articles created by nationals of the country).
2. With the authorisation of the Commissioners-General or Commissioners of the
other States concerned, other articles or products may be presented provided
they serve only to complete the exhibit.
3. In case of dispute between participating Governments concerning paragraphs 1
and 2 above, the matter shall be referred to the college of Section
Commissioners-general or Commissioners who shall decide by a simple majority of
those present. Their decision is final.

ARTICLE 20

1. unless there are provisions to the contrary in the laws of the organising country,
no monopoly of any kind shall be granted at an exhibition. However, a monopoly
for a common service may be authorized by the Bureau at the time of registration
or recognition. In that case the following conditions shall be observed by the
organisers:

a) the existence of such monopoly or monopolies shall be indicated in the
regulations of the exhibition and in the participation contract;

b) the services subject to monopoly shall be made available to exhibitors under
the conditions normally existing in the State;

c) the powers of the Commissioners-general or Commissioners in their respective
sections shall not in any case be subjected to any limitation.
2. The Commissioner-General or Commissioner of the exhibition shall take all steps
to ensure that the charges made to participating Governments are not higher than
those made to the organisers of the exhibition or in any case than the normal
local charges.

ARTICLE 21

The Commissioner-general or Commissioner of the Exhibtion shall do everything in his
power to ensure the proper and efficient functioning of the public utility services
inside the exhibition area.

ARTICLE 22

The inviting Government shall make every effort to facilitate the participation of
Governments and of their nationals, especially as regards transport charges and
conditions of admission of persons and things.

ARTICLE 23

1. The general regulations of an exhibition shall state whether or not prizes are to be
awarded to the participants irrespective of the certificates of participation which
may always be granted. If prizes are to be given their allocationn may be limited
to certain categories.
2. If participants do not wish to compete for prizes they shall make a declaration to
this effect before the opening of the exhibition.

ARTICLE 24

The International Exhibitions Bureau as defined in the following Article, shall draw up
regulations to determine the general conditions for the composition and functioning of
juries and to decide how prizes shall be awarded.

PART V Institutional Arrangements

ARTICLE 25

1. The International Exhibitions Bureau was established to supervise and ensure the
application of this Convention. Its members shall be the Governments of the
Contracting Parties. The headquarters of the Bureau shall be in Paris.
2. The Bureau shall have legal personality. In particular, it shall have the capacity to
contract, acquire and dispose of moveable and immovable property and to
participate in legal proceedings.
3. The Bureau shall be entitled to conclude with States and International
Organisations agreements relating to such Privileges and Immunities as are
necessary for the exercise of the functions entrusted to it by this Covention.
4. The Bureau shall comprise a General Assembly, a President, an Executive
Committee, specialised committess, as many Vice-Presidents as there are
committees and a Secretariat under the authority of a Secretary-General.

ARTICLE 26

The General Assembly of the Bureau shall be composed of delegates appointed by the
Contracting Parties on the scale of from one to three delegates per country.

ARTICLE 27
The General Assembly shall hold regular meetings and may also hold extraodinary
meetings. It shall decice all questions which under this Convention come within the
competence of the Bureau of which it is the highest authority. In particular the
General Assembly shall :
a) discuss, adopt and publish regulations relating to the registration or recognition,
classification and organisation of international exhibitions, and to the proper
functioning of the Bureau. Within the limits of the provisions of this Convention
the General Assembly may lay down compulsory regulations to be observed by the
organisers of exhibitions who wish to enjoy the advantages of registration by the
Bureau and also model regulations to serve as aguide to such organisers;
b. draw up the budget, check and approve the Bureau's accounts;
c) approve the reports of the Secretary General;
d) Establish committess as necessary, and appoint members of the Executive
Committee and of the other committees;
e) approve any international agreements entered into in accordance with Article 25
(3) hereof;
f)
adopt draft amendments in accordance with Article 33;
g) appoint the Secretary General.

ARTICLE 28

1. The Government of each Contracting Party, whatever the number of its delegates,
shall have one vote in the General Assembly. This voting right shall be suspended
if the sum of the subscriptions owed by a Contracting Government under Article
32 of this Convention exceeds the sum of the subscriptions due by it for the
current year and the previous year.
2. The General Assembly shall be qualified to exercise its functions when the number
of member States represented is at least two-thirds of the number of member
States entitled to vote. If this quorum is not reached, the General Assembly shall
be convened again with the same agenda after an interval of at least a month. In
that case the quorum required shall be reduced to half the number of Contracting
Parties entitled to vote.
3. Decisions shall be by a majority of the delegations present voting for or against,
except that a majority of two thirds shall be required in the following cases:

a) the adoption of proposals for amendments of this Convention;

b) the drawing up and amendment of the regulations;

c) the adoption of the budget and approval of the amount of the annual
subsriptions of the Contracting Parties;

d) the authorisation for a change of opening or closing dates of an exhibition in
accordance with Article 5 above;

e) the registration or recognition of an exhibition in the territory of a non-member
State which is in competition with an exhibition in the territory of a Contracting
Party;

f) the reduction of the intervals stipulated in Article 3 of the present Convention;

g) the acceptance of reservations to an amendment presented by a Contracting
Party; such amendment being adopted in accordance with Article 33, by a
four-fifths majority, or unanimously as the case may be;

h) the approval of any draft international agreement;

i) the appointed of the Secretary General.

ARTICLE 29

1. The President shall be elected by secret ballot of the General Assembly for a
period of two years from among the delegates of the Governments of the
Contracting Parties.
He may not represent the State to which he belongs during his period of office. He
may be re-elected.
2. The President shall call and conduct meetings of the General Assembly and ensure
the proper functioning of the Bureau. In the President's absence his functions shall
be exercised by the Vice-President in charge of the Executive Committee or, in
the event of his incapacity, by one other Vice-Presidents in the order of their
election.
3. The Vice-Presidents shall be elected from among the delegateds of the
Contracting Parties by the General Assembly which shall determine the nature and
duration of their office and in particular the Committees of which they shall be
given charge.

ARTICLE 30

1. The Executive Committee shall consist of delegates of twelve Contracting Parties,
each nominating one representative.
2. The Executive Committee :

a) shall establish and keep up-to-date a classification of human endeavour as it
may be portrayed in an exhibition;

b) shall examine all application for the registration or recognition of an exhibition
and submit them with advice for the approval of the General Assembly;

c) shall dischrage such tasks as are given to it by the General Assembly;

d) may seek the opinion of the other Committees.

ARTICLE 31

1. The Secretary General, who shall be appointed in accordance with the provisions
of Article 28 of this Convention, shall be a national of the country of one of the
Contracting Parties.
2. The Secretary General shall be responsible for attending to the current business of
the Bureau in accordance with the instructions of the General Assembly and of the
Executive Committee. He shall draw up a draft budget, present accounts and
submit reports on his activities to the General
Assembly. He shall represent the
Bureau, especially in legal matters.
3. The General Assembly shall decide the other duties and responsibilities of the
Secretary General as well as his terms of service.

ARTICLE 32

The annual budget of the Bureau shall be adopted by the General Assembly in
accordance with the provisions of paragraph 3 of Article 28. The budget shall take
account of the financial reserves of the Bureau, of revenue of all kinds, and also of the
debit and credit balance carried forward from previons financial years. The expenses
of the Bureau shall be met from these sources and from the subscriptions of
Contracting Parties calculated on the basis of the number of parts falling to each
Party according to the decisions of the General Assembly.

ARTICLE 33

1. Any Contracting Government may make a proposal for amendment of the
Convention. The text of the said proposal and the reasons for it shall be
communicated to the Secretary General who shall transmit them as soon as
possible to the other Contracting Governments.
2. The proposal for amendment shall be included in the agenda of an ordinary
session or of an extraordinary session of the General Assembly to be held at least
three months after the date of its despatch by the Secretary General.
3. Every proposal for amendment adopted by the General Assembly in accordance
with the provisions of the previous paragraph and of Article 28 shall be submitted
by the Government of the French Republic for the acceptance of all the
Governments Parties to this Convention. It shall come into force with regard to all
Parties on the date on which four-fifths of them have notified their acceptance to
the Government of the French Republic, except that a proposal for amendment of
the present paragraph, of Article 16, or of the Annex referred to in that Article
shall not come into force until all Parties have notified their acceptance to the
Government of the French Republic.
4. Any Government which wishes to enter a reservation to its acceptance of an
amendment shall inform the Bureau of the terms of this proposed reservation. The
General Assembly shall give a decision concerning the admissibility of this
reservation. It shall allow reservations which are conducive to the protection of
established positions with regard to international exhibitions and reject those
which would have the effect of creating privileged positions. If the reservation is
accepted, the Party which had submitted it shall be included among those which
are counted as having aceepted the amendments for the purpose of calculating
the above-mentioned four-fifths majority. If it is rejected, the Government which
had submitted it shall choose between
refusal to accept the amendment and
its aceeptance without reservation.
5. When the amendment comes into force, in the circumstances envisaged in the
third paragraph of the present article, any Contracting Party which had refused to
accept it may, if it sees fit, avail it self of the provisions of Article 37 below.

ARTICLE 34

1. Any dispute between two or more Contracting Governments concerning the
application or the interpretation of this Convention, which cannot be settled by
the authorities invested with powers of decision in pursuance of the provisions of
this Convention, shall form the subject of negotiations between the Parties in
dispute.
2. If these negotiations do not within a short space of time lead to an agreement,
any Party shall refer the matter to the President of the Bureau and shall request
him to nominate a conciliator. If the conciliator is unable to obtain the agreement
of the Parties in dispute on a solution, he shall take note of and define the nature
and the extent of the dispute in his report to the President.
3. Once a lack of agreement is this notified the dispute shall become the subject of
arbitration. To this end Party shall, within an interval of two months from the
date on which the report was communicated to the Parties in dispute, refer to the
secretary General of the Bureau a request for arbitration, naming the arbitrator
chosen by that Party. The other Party or Parties to the dispute must each
nominate, within in interval of two months, their respective arbitrators. Failing
this, any Party shall notify the President of the International Court of Justice.
requesting him to nominate the arbitrator or arbitrators. When several Parties act
in unision for purposes outlined in the preceding paragraph, they shall count as
one entity. In case of doubt, the decision lies with the Secretary General. The
arbitrators shall in their turn nominate an additional arbitrator. If the arbitrators
cannot agree on this choice within a space of two months, the President of the
International Court of Justice, having been notified by any one Party, shall be
responsible for nominating the additional arbitrator.
4. The arbitrating body shall give its decision by the majority of its members, the
additional arbitrator having the casting vote in the event of the arbitrators' votes
being equally divided. This decision shall be binding on all the Parties in dispute,
finally and without the right of appeal.
5. Any State may, at the time of signing or ratifying this Convention, or acceding to
it, declare itself not bound by the provisions of the above paragraphs 3 and 4.
Other Contracting Parties will not be bound as regards those provisions towards
any State which has so reserved its positions.
6. Any Contracting Party which has reserved its position in accordance with the
provisions of the above paragraph. may at any time rescind its reservations by a
notifications to the depository Government.

ARTICLE 35

This Convention shall be open for a accession by any State which is a member of the
United Nations, or any State which is not a member of the United Nations but which is
a Party to the Statute of the International Course of Justice or any State which is a
member of one of the specialised agencies of the United Nations or the International
Atomic Energy Agency and also by any State whose application for accession is
approved by a two-thirds majority of the Contracting Parties which have the right to
vote in the General Assembly of the Bureau. Instruments of accession shall be
deposited with the Government of the French Republic and shall become effective on
the date they are so deposited.

ARTICLE 36

The Government of the French Republic shall inform signatory and acceding
Governments and also the International Exhibitions Bureau of :
a) the entry into force of amendments in accordance with Article 33;
b) accessions in accordance with Article 35;
c) denunciations in accordance with Article 37;
d) reservations filed in accordance with Article 34 paragraph 5;
e) the termination of the Convention, should this arise.

ARTICLE 37

1. Any Contracting Government may denounce this Convention by notifying the
Government of the French Republic in writing.
2. Such a denunciation shall take effect one year after the date of receipt of such
notification.
3. This Convention shall terminate if, as the result of denunciations, the number of
Contracting Governments is reduced to less than seven. Subject to any agreement
which may be concluded between the Contracting Governments concerning the
dissolution of the Bureau, the Secretary General shall be responsible for questions
regarding liquidation. Unless the General Assembly decides otherwise, the assets
shall be divided among the Contracting Governments in proportion to the
subscriptions paid since they have been Parties of this Convention. If there are
liabities, these shall be taken over by the same Governments in proportion to the
subscriptions fixed for the current financial year.

DONE at Paris, the 30th of November, 1972

ANNEX

to the Convention done at Paris on 22nd of November 1928 relating to International
Exhibitions, as amended and supplemented by the Protocols of the 10th of May 1948,
the 16th of November 1966, the 30th of November 1972 and the Amendment of the
24th June 1982.

CUSTOMS REGULATIONS

FOR THE IMPORTATION OF ARTICLES BY THE PARTICIPANTS
IN AN INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION

ARTICLE 1-Definitions

For the application of the present Annex the following interpretations shall apply :
a) Import duties means Customs duties and all other duties and taxes payable on or
in connection with importation and shall include all excise duties and internal
taxes chargeable on imported goods, but shall not include fees and charges, which
are limited in amount to the approximate cost of the services rendered and do not
represent an indirect protection to domestic products or a taxation of imports for
fiscal purposes.
b) Temporary admission means temporary importation free of import duties, and
free oof import prohibitions and restrictions, subject to re-exportation.

ARTICLE 2

Temporary admission shall be granted to :
a) goods intended for display or demonstration at the exhibition;
b) goods intended for use in connection with the display of foreign exhibitions at the
exhibition, including :

i) goods necessary for the purpose of demonstrating foreign machinery or
apparatus to be displayed,

ii) construction materials, even in the raw sate, decoration material and
furnishings, and electrical equipment for the foreign pavilions and stands at the
exhibition
as
well
as
for
the
premises
assigned
to
the
Section
Commissioner-General of a foreign participating country,

iii)tools equipment used in construction and means of transport necessary for the
work of the exhibition,

iv)advertising of demonstration material which is demonstrably publicity material
for the foreign goods exhibited at the exhibition, for example sound recordings,
films and film slides, as well as apparatus for necessary use therewith;
c) equipment including interpretation apparatus, sound
reproducing
apparatus
and films of an educational, scientific or cultural character, intended to be used
for the purposes of the exhibition.

ARTICLE 3

The facilities referred to in paragraph 2 of this Annex shall be granted provided that :
a) the goods are capable of identification on re-exportation;
b) the Section Commissioner-General of the participating country, without being
called upon to pay a deposit, guarantees the payment of the import duties to
which the goods are liable in the event of their not being re-exported within the
prescribed period after the closing of the eexhibition; other guarantees provided
for by the laws of the inviting country can be accepted at the request of the
exhibitors (e.g. A.T.A. carnet inaugurated by the Convention of the Customs
Co-operation Council of 6 December, 1961);
c) the Customs authorities of the country of temporary importation are satisfied that
the conditions of this Annex will be fulfilled.

ARTICLE 4

Unless the national laws and regulations of the country of temporary importation so
permit, goods granted temporary admission shall not, whilst they are the subject of
the facilities granted under the present Annex, be loaned, or used in any way for hire
or reward or be removed from the site of the exhibition. They shall be re-exported
with a minimum period of delay and at the latest within three monts after the close of
the exhibition. The Customs authorities may, for valid reasons, extend this period
within the limits laid down by the laws and regulations of the country of temporary
importation.

ARTICLE 5

a) Notwithstanding the requirement of re-exportation laid down in Article 4, the
re-exportation of perishable goods, badly damaged goods or goods of little value
shall not be required provided that the goods are :

i)
subject to the import duties to which they are liable; or

ii) abandoned free of all expense to the Exchequer of the country into which
they were temporarily imported;

iii) destroyed, under official supervision, without expense to the Exchequer of
the country into which they were temporarily imported, as the Customs
authorities may require. Furthermore, the re-exportation requirements shall
not apply to goods whose destruction is required by the Section
Commissioner-General concerned, but destruction must be under official
supervision and without expense to the Exchequer of the country into which
they were temporarily imported.
b) Goods granted temporary admission may be disposed of otherwise than by
re-exportation, and in particular may be taken into domestic use, subject to
compliance with the conditions and formalities applicable under the laws and
regulations of the country of temporary importation in respect of such goods
imported directly from abroad.

ARTICLE 6

Products obtained incidentally during the exhibition from temprarily imported goods,
as a result of demonstration of displayed machinery or apparatus, shall be subject to
the provisions of Article 4 and 5 of this Annex, in the same way as if they had been
granted temporary admission, subject to the reservations in Article 7 below.

ARTICLE 7

Import duties shall not be levied and import prohibitions and restrictions shall be
waived, and where temporary admission has been granted, re-exportation shall not be
required, in respect of the following goods, if their aggregate value and quantity are,
in the opinion of the Customs authorities of the country of importation, reasonable
having regard to the nature of the exhibition, the number of visitors to it and the
extent of the exhibitor's participation :
a) small samples (other than alcoholic bevarages, tobacco goods and fuels) which are
representative of foreign goods displayed at the exhibition, including such samples
of foods and beverages, either imported in the form of such samples or produced
at the exhibition from imported build materials, provided that :

i) they are supplied free of charge from abroad and are used solely for
distribution free of charge to the visiting public at the exhibition, for individual
use or consumption by the persons to whom they are distributed,

ii) they are identifiable as advertising samples and are individually of little value,

iii) they are unsuitable for commercial purposes and are, where appropriate,
packed in quantities appreciably smaller than the smallest retail package, and

(iv) samples of foods and beverages which are not distributed in packs as provided
for in (ii) above, are consumed at the exhibition;
b) imported samples used or consumed by the juries at the exhibition in appraising
or judging articles displayed, subject to the production of a certificate from the
Section Commissioner-General mentioning the nature and the quantity of the
samples so used or consumed;
c) goods imported solely for demonstration or for the purpose of demonstrating the
operation of a foreign machine or apparatus displayed at the exhibition and
consumed or destroyed in the course of such demonstrations;
d) printed matter, catalogues, trade notices, price lists, advertising posters,
calendars, whether or not illustrated, and ungramed photographs, which are
demonstrably publicity material for the foreign goods displayed at the exhibition,
provided that they are supplied free of charge from abroad and are used solely for
distribution free of charge to the visiting public at the exhibition.

ARTICLE 8

Import duties shall not be livied, and import prohibition and restrictions shall be
waived, and where temporary admission has been granted, re-exportation shall not be
required, in respect of the following goods :
a) products which are imported and which are used up in constructing, setting up,
decorating, animating, or furnishing the stands of foreign exhibitors at the
exhibition, such as paint, varnish, wall-paper, rectified spirit, fireworks, seeds,
plants, etc, which are disposed of by the use to which they are put;
b) official catalogues, leaflets, posters and other printed matter, whether or not
illustrated, which are published by the countries participating in the exhibition;
c) plans, drawing, files, records, forms and other documents which are imported for
use as such at the exhibition.

ARTICLE 9

a) Both on entry and on exit, the examination and clearance of goods which are
going to be exhibited or used or which have been exhibited or used at an
exhibition shall be carried out, whenever possible and convenient, at the site of
this exhibition.
b) Each Contracting Party shall endeavour, whenever it considers this useful, taking
into consideration the mortance of the exhibition, to open for a reasonable period
a Customs office on the site of the exhibition held in its territory.
c) The re-exportation of goods which were imported temporarily may take place in
one or several instalments and throught any Customs office which is open for this
purpose, even if it is different from the office of importation, unless the importer
undertook to re-export the goods through the office of importation in order to
have the benefit of a simplified procedure.

ARTICLE 10

Nothing in these regulations shall prevent the application of :

a) more extensive facilities which Contracting parties grant or may grant either by
unilateral agreement, or by virtue of bilateral or multilateral agreements,
b) regulations, whether national or made by agreement, concerning the organisation
of the exhibition which are not concerned with Customs matters,
c) prohibitions and restrictions arising from national laws and regulations and
concerned with public morality or conduct, public security, public hygiene or
health, or with veterinary or phytopathological matters, or with the protection of
patents, trade marks, author's rights and copyright.

ARTICLE 11

For the purpose of the present Annex the territories of the Contracting Countries
which form a Customs or economic union can be considered as a single territory.

PROTOCOL

TO AMEND THE CONVENTION SIGNED AT PARIS
ON 22ND NOVEMBER 1928
RELATING TO INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS

The Parties to the present Convention :

Considering that the rules and procedures established by the Convention relating to
International Exhibitions, signed at Paris on the 22nd of November, 1928, amended
and supplemented by the Protocols of the 10th of May, 1948 and the 16th of
November, 1966 have proved useful and necessary to the organisers of exhibitions as
well as to participating countries;

Desirous of adapting to modern conditions the said rules and procedures, together
with those relating to the organisation responsible for ensuring their application and of
consolidating these and other provisions in a single instrument which will replace the
1928 Convention;

Have agreed as follows :

ARTICLE 1

The objects of the present Protocol are :

a) to amend the rules procedures concerning international exhibitions;
b) to amend the provisions regarding the operations of the International Exhibitions
Bureau.

AMENDMENT OF THE CONVENTION ARTICLE 2

The 1928 Convention is further amended by the present Protocol in accordance with
the aims expressed in Article 1. The text of the Convention as so amended is set out in
the Appendix to the present Protocol of which it forms an integral part.

ARTICLE 3

1. The present Protocol shall remain open for signature by Governments Parties to
the 1928 Convention at Paris from 30th November, 1972 until 29th November, 1973
and thereafter shall remain open for accession by them.
2. Governments Parties to the 1928 Convention may become Parties to the present
Protocol by :

a) signature without reservation as to ratification, acceptance or approval;

b) signature subject to ratification, acceptance or approval followed by
ratification, acceptance or approval, or

c) accession.
3. Instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession shall be deposited
with the Government of the French Republic.

ARTICLE 4

The present Protocol shall enter into force on the date on which twenty-nine States
shall have become parties to it in accordance with the provisions of Article 3.1

ARTICLE 5

The provisions of the present Protocol shall not apply to the registration of an
eexhibition for which a date has been reserved by the International Exhibitions Bureau
not later than the meeting of the Administrative Council which immediately preceded
the entry into force of the present Protocol in accordance with Article 4 above.

ARTICLE 6

The Government of the French Republic shall inform the Governments of the
Contracting Parties and also the International Exhibitions Bureau of :

(a) signatures made and ratifications, approval, acceptances and accessions deposited
in accordance with Article 3;
(b) the date on which the present Protocol enters into force in accordance with Article
4.

ARTICLE 7

As soon as the present Protocol enters into force, the Government of the French
Republic shall cause it to be registered with the Secretariat of the United Nations in
accordance with Article 102 of the Charter of the United Nations.

IN WITHNESS WHEREOF the undersigned, being duly authorised thereto, have signed
the present Protocol.

DONE AT PARIS this 30th day of November, 1972 in the French language in a single
copy which shall be deposited with the Government of the French Republic. The
French Government shall transmit certified copies to the Governments of all the
Parties to the 1928 Convention.

The present Protocol entered into force on the 9th June 1980.

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