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[Ratifications deposited on behalf of Great Britain, Northern Ireland and New Zealand (including Western Samoa), April 1, 1925.] THE British Empire (with New Zealand), Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Chile, Denmark, the Free City of Danzig, Spain, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, Czechoslovakia and Uruguay, Desirous of facilitating international co-operation by way of the conclusion between States interested therein of agreements concerning the transmission in transit of electric power; Having accepted the invitation of the League of Nations to take part in a conference which met at Geneva on the 15th November, 1923; Wishing to conclude a general convention for this purpose, The high contracting parties have appointed as their plenipotentiaries : The President of the Austrian Republic: M. Emerich Pflügl, Resident Minister, representative of the Federal Government accredited to the League of Nations, delegate at the Second General Conference on Communications and Transit; His Majesty the King of the Belgians : M. Xavier Neujean, Minister of Railways, Mercantile Marine, Posts, Telegraphs and Telephones of Belgium, delegate at the Second General Conference on Communications and Transit; His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India : Sir Hubert Llewellyn Smith, G.C.B., Chief Economic For the Dominion of New Zealand: The Honourable Sir James Allen, K.C.B., High Commissioner for New Zealand in the United Kingdom; His Majesty the King of the Bulgarians : M. D. Mikoff, Chargé d'Affaires at Berne; The President of the Republic of Chile: M. Francisco Rivas Vicuña, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Swiss Federal Council, to the President of the Czechoslovak Republic, to the President of the Austrian Federal Republic and to His Serene Highness the Governor of Hungary, delegate at the Second General Conference on Communications and Transit: His Majesty the King of Denmark : M. P. A. Holck-Colding, Director of Section at the Ministry of Public Works, member of the Advisory and Technical Committee for Communications and Transit, delegate at the Second General Conference on Communications and Transit; The President of the Polish Republic (for the Free City of Danzig) : Professor Bohdan Winiarski, vice-chairman of the Advisory and Technical Committee for Communications and Transit, delegate at the Second General Conference on Communications and Transit: His Majesty the King of Spain: M. Guillermo Brockmann y Abarzuza, Inspector-General of Roads, Canals and Ports, member of the Advisory and Technical Committee for Communications and Transit, delegate at the Second General Conference on Communications and Transit; The President of the French Republic: M. Maurice Sibille, Member of Parliament, member of the Advisory and Technical Committee for Communications and Transit, delegate at the Second General Conference on Communications and Transit ; His Majesty the King of the Hellenes: M. A. Politis, technical representative of the Hellenic M. Demetre G. Phocas, captain in the Hellenic navy, His Serene Highness the Governor of Hungary: M. Emile de Walter, Ministerial Counsellor at the Royal His Majesty the King of Italy: M. Paolo Bignami, former Under-Secretary of State, former The President of the Republic of Lithuania : M. C. Dobkevicius, Counsellor at the Lithuanian Legation in Paris, delegate at the Second General Conference on Communications and Transit ; The President of the Polish Republic: Professor Bohdan Winiarski, vice-chairman of the Advisory His Majesty the King of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes: The President of the Czechoslovak Republic: M. J. Dvorácek, Minister Plenipotentiary and Head of the Economic Department of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs; The President of the Republic of Uruguay: M. Benjamin Fernandez y Medina, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to His Majesty the King of Spain, chairman of the Advisory and Technical Committee for Communications and Transit ; who, after communicating their full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed as follows: ARTICLE 1. Each contracting State undertakes, on the request of any other contracting State, to negotiate, with a view to the conclusion of agreements for ensuring the transmission in transit of electric power across its territory. Nevertheless, the contracting States reserve the right to hold themselves free from the obligations of paragraph 1 of the present article if they can represent that the transmission in transit of electric power across their territory would be seriously detrimental to their national economy or security. ARTICLE 2. Electric power shall be considered as transmitted in transit across the territory of a contracting State when it crosses the said territory by means of conductors erected for this purpose alone without being wholly or in part produced, utilised or transformed within such territory. ARTICLE 3. The technical methods which may be adopted for the purpose of article 1, paragraph 1, shall be based exclusively upon considerations which might legitimately be taken into account in the case of similar internal transmissions, it being understood, however, that in exceptional cases political frontiers may be taken. |