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DECREE NO. 6,624, OF October 29, 2008.
Promuling the Terms of Reference and Procedure Standards of the International Group of Chumbo and Zinc Studies (GIECZ).
THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC, in the use of the assignment that confers it on art. 84, inciso IV, of the Constitution, and
Considering that the National Congress has approved the texts of the Terms of Reference and Procedure Standards of the International Group of Chumbo and Zinc Studies, through the Legislative Decree no 282, of October 23, 2007;
Whereas the Brazilian Government deposited the Letter of Accession on January 10, 2008, date on which the referred acts came into force for Brazil on the international plane;
DECRETA:
Art. 1o The Terms of Reference and Procedure Standards of the International Group of Studies of the Lead and from the Zinc, apensed by copy to the present Decree, will be executed and fulfilled as entirely as it contains.
Art. 2o Are subject to the approval of the National Congress any acts that may result in revision of the aforementioned Terms of Reference and Procedure Standards of the International Group of Chumbo and Zinc Studies, or which carries charges or gravy commitments to the national heritage, in the terms of the art. 49, inciso I, of the Constitution.
Art. 3o This Decree comes into effect on the date of its publication.
Brasilia, October 29, 2008; 187th of Independence and 120th of the Republic.
LUIZ INÁCIO LULA DA SILVA
Celso Luiz Nunes Amorim
Group of International Studies on Chumbo and Zinco
Introduction
In September 1958, in London, under the auspices of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, United Nations Exploratory Meeting on Chumbo and Zinco was? convened by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, by request of the Interim Coordinating Committee for International Agreements on Base Products (ICCICA), after consultations with the Governments of the countries substantially interested in lead and zinc?. Thirty-two countries were represented by Delegations and six by Observers. The Exploratory Meeting constituted a Committee of the Chumbo and the Zinco to analyze, among other things,? the creation of a Study Group?.
As a result of discussions haved at the Exploratory Meeting and the work of its Committee of the Chumbo and the Zinc, it was held at the Palais de Nations in Geneva in November 1958, United Nations Conference on Chumbo and Zinco under the auspices of the United Nations Economic and Social Committee. The Conference recommended that? the Interim Coordinating Committee for International Agreements on Base Products (ICCICA), within the framework of the functions that had been assigned to it by the United Nations Economic and Social Committee, would provide for the realization of the first meeting of a Group of intergovernmental studies?. The Conference kept the Committee of the Chumbo and the Zinc,? subject to the creation of a Study Group?.
As a result of the recommendation to the ICCICA, it was held at the United Nations Seat in New York in May 1959, within the framework of the United Nations Economic and Social Council, new United Nations Conference on Chumbo and Zinco, known as the Inaugural Meeting on Chumbo and Zinc. The Conference took aim? to carry out the necessary work for the creation of an international study group on lead and zinc?.
The first session of the International Studies Group on Chumbo and Zinco, the intergovernmental consultative organisation, was held in Geneva in January 1960.
The headquarters of the Study Group has remained at the United Nations Seat in New York City, since its creation until 1º April 1977, when it was transferred to London, England.
London, England
January 1979
Terms of Reference of the International Group of Studies on Chumbo and Zinco
Accession
1.The admission to the International Study Group on Chumbo and Zinco will be open to the Governments of the Member States of the United Nations, or of appropriate specialized agencies or, still, to the Signatary Parties of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, substantially interested in the production, consumption or marketing of lead and zinc.
Functions
2.The Group will provide opportunities for the realization of appropriate intergovernmental consultations on the international trade in lead and / or zinc, in addition to carrying out the studies on the world situation of lead and zinc judging necessary, taking into account, especially, the convenience of providing accurate information, on a continuous basis, on the position of supply and demand and its likely evolution. To do so, the Group will arrange for the collection and dissemination of statistics, whether it is worth the existing sources, when relevant.
3.The Group will consider, as appropriate, possible solutions for any existing special problems or difficulties or which will arise in the area of lead or zinc and which cannot be solved in the normal course of world trade.
4.The Group will be able to submit reports to the Member Governments. These reports will be able to include suggestions and / or recommendations.
5.For the purposes of these terms of reference, the terms lead and zinc will include fragments, leftovers and / or residues, as well as the products manufactured from lead and zinc as defined by the Group.
6.The Group will meet on dates and venues of mutual convenience for its members.
7.The Group shall adopt the rules of procedure that it judge necessary for the exercise of its functions.
8.The Group will adopt the arrangements regarding the services of secretaries that it judge necessary for the performance of its assignments.
9.The participating Governments will contribute the Group's expenditons, on bases to be by this determined.
10.The Group will remain in activity during the time in which, in the opinion of the participating Governments, serve a useful purpose.
11.The Group shall adopt the arrangements that it shall deem necessary for the exchange of information with non-participating Governments interested from States referred to in paragraph 1º, as well as with appropriate non-governmental and intergovernmental organizations. The Group will cooperate, in particular, with the Interim Committee for International Agreements on Base Products, which, in accordance with resolution 557 F (XVIII) of the Economic and Social Council, has the function of coordinating the activities of groups of studies and advice.
(Reproduced as Document LZ/13, of September 13, 1960, extracted of the E/conf. Document. 31/1, of May 6, 1959, Report of the Inaugural Session of the International Study Group on Chumbo and Zinc).
Proceed standards of the International Group of Studies on Chumbo and Zinc
Accession
Standard # 1
Any of the Governments mentioned in paragraph 1º of the Terms of Reference that wish to join the Study Group will inform the Secretary-General, in writing, about their intention. The information will include a statement from the Government in question, in the sense that the same is found to be substantially interested in the production, consumption, or marketing of lead and / or zinc and that it accepts the Terms of Reference and the Standards of Procedure.
Standard # 2
A member will be able to, at any time, shut down from the Group upon prior notification, in writing, to the Secretary-General. The shutdown will enter into force on the date specified in the notification. The shutdown will occur without prejudice to any financial obligations already incurred, and will not give the Government that it deters right to any mishandling of its contribution corresponding to the year in which the shutdown comes to occur.
Standard # 3
The Secretary-General will inform all the members of the Group about any notification received in accordance with the standards 1 and 2.
Representation
Standard # 4
Each member of the Group will appoint, if possible, a resident person in the Group's home country to which all notifications and other communications regarding the Group's work will be forwarded, although other arrangements may be made with the Secretary-General.
Standard # 5
Each member of the Group will inform the Secretary-General, with the possible brevity, the names of the representative, of the supplers and counselors assigned to represent you in a session. Members will, in the meantime, be able to designate permanent delegations to represent them in all Group sessions, until decision to the contrary.
Standard # 6
If a member and the territories by whose international relations the same is liable to constitute a group of which one or more units is (in) interested in the production of lead and zinc and, one or more units, in the consumption of lead and zinc, the said member may request joint representation for all territories in the Group, or representations individual to the territories concerned, respectively, in the production and consumption of lead and zinc. When a territory or group of territories is individually represented in accordance with this standard, the same shall be, for the purposes of these standards, considered a member of the Group.
Liaison
Standard # 7
The Group will adopt the arrangements judging appropriate for the exchange of information with the non-participating Governments interested from the States referred to in paragraph 1º of their Terms of Reference, as well as with the relevant non-governmental and intergovernmental organizations.
The Group will be able to invite any intergovernmental or non-governmental organization competent and substantially interested in lead and zinc problems to make themselves represent in their meetings by an observer, on the understanding that the organization in question will extend similar rights to the Group. The said observer will be able to attend all meetings of the Group, unless otherwise decided by the Group, as far as it is concerned in full or any part of a meeting or series of specific meetings. In the meantime, unless otherwise decided by the Group, the observer will only be able to attend the meetings of the Standing Committee or any committee or subcommittee in which all the members of the Group are represented.
The President will be able to invite the said observer to participate in the Group's discussions on any matter in which the organization represented by the observer is substantially interested. In the meantime, the observer shall not be entitled to vote or to submit bids.
The following Group's Standards of Procedure will apply to those organizations, mutatis mutandis: Norms 4, 5, 13, 16, 26, 27 and 28.
Financial obligations
Standard # 8
The financial exercise for the Group will understand the period from 1º January to December 31.
Standard # 9
Each member of the Group will contribute, annually, with the Group's expenditments, in compliance with the scale of contributions established and subject to a minimum contribution, based on the interest in lead and zinc of each member. The budget for the following year will be approved and the contributions of each member Government shall be fixed at the last scheduled meeting of each financial year. The Secretary-General shall immediately inform each member Government about the value of his / her contribution. The contributions will have as their due date the day 1º of January and are expected to be paid by the June 30 of that year. Should a member Government not yet pay its corresponding contribution to the previous calendar year until the date of the ordinary meeting of the Standing Committee held in the spring, the same should warrant the delay in question during the meeting. Any member whose arrears is higher than that corresponding to his or her contribution to the previous financial year shall be deprived of his or her right to vote, or suspended for the period in which the said delay persists.
Standard # 10
Any member admitted to the Group in the transcurring of a financial year will pay its regular annual contribution in the proportion that the Group comes to determine. The contributions received from new members will not affect the contributions applied to existing members in the financial year in question.
Standard # 11
Members ' contributions will be paid in the currency of the state where the Group's head office is located. Financial arrangements for the Group shall be made between the Secretary-General and the authority of the Standing Committee, and shall remain in force until decision to the contrary of the Group.
Standard # 12
The adoption of a budget will authorize the realization of the spending defined on the same. At the limits of the general budget and upon approval by the Standing Committee or an organ or an authority of the appropriately designated Standing Committee, any resource of any item in the budget may be intended for any other heading. Payment to the Group's account may be effected in accordance with the rules (s) that the Standing Committee shall, from time to time, come to define.
Standard # 13
The travel and daily expenses of member delegations, including those of delegations to the Committees or other bodies of the Group, will not be debited to the Group's funds.
Group sede
Standard # 14
The Group will be headquartered in London, until decision to the contrary. The Group will define the venues for the realization of its sessions.
Group Sessions
Standard # 15
The Group's sessions, except those set out in a previous session, will be held by request of the Standing Committee or the Group President or, yet, at a minimum four members. When the solicitation is made in an urgent character, the same shall include a statement that justifies it.
Standard # 16
The Secretary-General will send to the designated representative of each member of the Group a written notification informing the date of each session, accompanied by a provisional agenda for the said session. The notification and the provisional agenda in question will be sent in the minimum of thirty-five days of the beginning of the session. Should a meeting be convened in a sense of urgency, the notification and provisional agenda will be sent out at the minimum of fifteen days ' notice, accompanied by a statement containing the reasons for convening the session.
Provisional Agenda
Standard # 17
The provisional agenda of each session will be drawn up by the Secretary-General upon consultation with the President of the Group. Should a member of the Group wish for a specific subject matter to be discussed in a Group session, the same should, if possible, notify the Secretary-General with the minimum advance of sixty days of the commencement of the session, including, in the said notification, a justification for such solicitation. The agenda will be set during the Group Session.
President and Vice-Presidents
Standard # 18
The Group will have a President and two Vice-Presidents, which will be elected for the period of one calendar year, and may be re-elected. The elections for a calendar year will be held at appropriate meeting in the previous calendar year. In the meantime, in the absence of the said elections, the President and the Vice President will remain in their posts until their successors have been elected and sworn in.
Standard # 19
The President's assignments, or of a Vice President exerting the function of President, include:
(a) Presiding and conducting each session;
(b) Declare the opening and shutdown of each session of the Group;
(c) Orient discussions during meetings, ensure observance of the present norms, grant the right to expression and, in accordance with standard No. 20, deliberate on all matters of order;
(d) Ask questions, announce decisions and, in the event of a vote, proceed to the counting of votes and announce the outcome of the vote.
Conduction of the Works
Standard # 20
During the discussion of any matter, any representative will be able to raise a matter of order and propose the closure or adjournment of the debate. In such a case, the President will immediately announce his decision, which shall prevail, save if rejected by the meeting.
Standard # 21
The quorum required for each meeting of the Group will be the majority of its members.
Standard # 22
The Group's meetings will be private, unless otherwise decided.
Standard # 23
In the normal course of the works, decisions will be taken in compliance with the prevailing views at the meeting, and without a vote. Should a vote be requested with respect to decisions involving the budget, amendments to the budget or any amendment in the Terms of Reference or in this standard, a two-thirds majority of the members present and voting shall be required. Voting will occur by lifting of hands, call nominal or secret ballot, in compliance with the solicitation. Should a vote be requested with respect to other decisions, a simple majority will be sufficient.
Standard # 24
The President, or a Vice President exercising the function of President, will not be entitled to vote, but may designate a another member of your delegation to vote for your seat.
Standard # 25
The Chairman of the Standing Committee will be able to adopt arrangements for the delibere Group on any matter by correspondence. For so much, a communication will be forwarded to the members, inviting them to issue their votes on a specific time frame, which should not be less than twenty-one days. The notice will include accurate information on the matter in question, as well as on the proposals regarding which Members are being invited to vote against or in favour. By the end of the stipulated time limit, the Secretary-General shall inform all members about the outcome of the vote. If four members object to the method of matching voting, no votes will be accepted and the discussion of matter will be postponed until the next session of the Group.
Official and Labor Languages
Standard # 26
The official and working languages of the Group will be English, French, Russian, and Spanish. Any representative who wishes to express themselves in any other language will hold accountable for translation into one of the working languages.
All of the documents to be used by the Group will be translated into the four languages of work.
Standard # 27
The minutes will consist of a summarized record of the meeting, which will be initially provisional. Should a delegation wish to change any of its statements set out in the provisional record, such amendment shall be made by notification to the Secretary-General within twenty-one days, from the date of issuance of that record, and none new change will be made, saved if approved by the Group in its next session.
Standard # 28
The Group's proprietary information, the reports on procedures, as well as all the other documents of the Group of Studies and its various committees and other bodies will be confidential until-and saved-decision as opposed to the Group or the Standing Committee, as the case may be.
Standing Committee
Standard # 29
The Group will constitute a Standing Committee made up of those members who have indicated to the Secretary-General their desire to participate in the Group's work. The documents related to the work of the Committee will be forwarded to a person designated by each member of the Committee.
The Standing Committee will elect its own President and its own Vice-Presidents.
The Secretary-General, or an official appointed by him, shall exercise the function of Secretary of the Committee.
The Committee, which will meet at least twice a year, will adopt its own Norms of Procedure.
Standard # 30
The Standing Committee will make the permanent review of the lead and zinc situation and make the Group the recommendations that judging advisable. The Standing Committee shall carry out any other assignments which will be delegated to it by the Group. It shall also hold the work of the Secretariat responsible for the drafting of a budget minuta and other financial actions, in accordance with the standard No. 12. The Committee will be permanently informed about all financial transactions carried out on behalf of the Group.
Other Committees
Standard # 31
The Group will be able to constitute other committees or bodies that deem appropriate, in the terms and conditions that come to be determined.
Secretariat
Standard # 32
The Group will have a Secretariat comprised of a Secretary-General and the personnel framework that comes to be necessary. The Secretariat will be designated or propped up as a decision of the Group.
Standard # 33
In keeping with the Group's deliberations on the provisioning of the Secretariat, the Secretary-General will hold you accountable for the performance of all the tasks inherent in the Secretariat, including the provision of services to the Group and its Committees.
Emendas
Standard # 34
The present standards could be emendable by decision of the Group, taken in accordance with standard No. 23.
(LZ/161, of September 26, 1977, revised from LZ/58, November 13, 1964, from LZ/15, October 10 from 1960, and from LZ/9, of August 3, 1960).
Standing Committee Procedure Norms
Accession, Representation and Liaison
Standard # 1
Any member of the Study Group who wishes to participate in the proceedings of the Standing Committee or, if it is the case, shut down from the Group, will inform the Secretary, in writing, his / her intention. The Secretary will inform all Members of the Study Group about any notification received.
Standard # 2
Each Member of the Committee will inform the Secretary, as soon as possible, the name of the person or of the designated persons, of times in times, to represent you at the meetings of the Committee, as well as the name of the person to whom all documents related to the proceedings of the Committee will be forwarded.
Standard # 3
Case, in the opinion of the Committee, any matter under consideration is of particular interest of any non-member Government, or of any organization referred to in standard No. 7 of the Group's Rules of Procedure, the Committee may decide whether to grant the Government or the organization in question the opportunity to submit its views on the said matter to the Committee, in writing.
Meetings and Agenda
Standard # 4
The regular meetings of the Committee will be held, via rule, quarterly and, under any circumstance, at least twice a year. The date of any regular meeting will be decided by the Committee at the previous meeting. Other meetings of the Committee may be held by request of the President or at least four members. The seat of the Committee will be, via rule, the headquarters of the Group, and the Committee will hold its meetings at the said headquarters, unless otherwise decided.
Standard # 5
The Secretary of the Committee will send to the person or persons designated in accordance with the standard No. 2, notification by written informing the date of each meeting of the Committee, along with a provisional agenda. Such notification shall be, as a rule, referred to in the minimum 21 days notice of the start of any regular meeting, or 14 days of the start of any other meeting.
Standard # 6
The provisional agenda of each meeting of the Committee will be drawn up by the Secretary. The said agenda will include all subjects from a previous meeting submitted for consideration of the Study Group, or a meeting of the Committee or, as yet, proposed by the President or by any Member of the Committee, with the minimum advance notice of 28 days from the start of any regular meeting, or 21 days from the start of any other meeting. The agenda will be set at the meeting of the Committee.
President and Vice-Presidents
Standard # 7
The Committee will have a President and two Vice-Presidents, which will be elected for the period of one calendar year, and may be re-elected. The elections for any calendar year will be, as a rule, held at the last meeting of the previous year. In the meantime, if for any reason the said elections are not held, the President and the Vice-Chairs will remain in their posts until their successors have been elected and sworn in.
Standard # 8
A President, or a Vice President playing the role of President, will have the following assignments:
(a) Presiding and conducting each meeting;
(b) Declare the opening and closing of each meeting of the Committee;
(c) Orient discussions during meetings, ensure observance of the present norms, grant the right to expression and, in accordance with standard No. 10, deliberate on all matters of order;
(d) Ask questions, announce decisions and, in the event of a vote, proceed to the counting of votes and announce the outcome of the vote.
Functions
Standard # 9
The Standing Committee should:
(a) Rever, permanently, the situation of lead and zinc and make, to the Group, the recommendations judging advisable;
(b) Draw up a budget minuta to be submitted to the Group;
(c) Adopt intermediate financial arrangements for the Group, in accordance with standard No. 11 of the Norms of Procedure of the Group, and perform any other duties assigned to the Committee in accordance with the said standard;
(d) Designate a member of the Group or Standing Committee for the purposes of the standard No. 12 of the Group's Rules of Procedure, as well as perform any other assigned duties to the Committee in accordance with the said standard.;
(e) Take responsibility for the work of the Secretariat;
(f) Perform any other duties that come to them by the Group.
Conduction of the Works
Standard # 10
During the discussion of any matter, any representative will be able to raise a matter of order and propose the closure or adjournment of the debate. In such a case, the President will immediately announce his decision, which shall prevail save if rejected by the meeting.
Standard # 11
The quorum required for each meeting of the Group will be the majority of its members.
Standard # 12
The Group's meetings will be private.
Standard # 13
In the normal course of the works, decisions will be taken in compliance with the prevailing views at the meeting, and without a vote. Should a vote be requested, decisions will be made by a simple majority, with a vote by hand-lift, roll call or secret ballot, in compliance with the solicitation.
Standard # 14
The President, or a Vice President playing the role of President, will not be entitled to vote, but may designate another member of his delegation to vote for his seat.
Standard # 15
The President will be able to adopt arrangements for the Committee to delibere on any matter by correspondence. For so much, a communication will be forwarded to the members, inviting them to issue their votes on a given time limit, which should not, via rule, be less than 21 days. The notice will include accurate information on the matter in question and on the proposals regarding which Members are being asked to vote against or in favour. By the end of the stipulated period, the Secretary shall inform all members about the decision of the Group. If any member objected to the method of voting by correspondence, no votes will be accepted and the discussion of the matter will be postponed until the next meeting of the Committee.
Official and Labor Languages
Standard # 16
The work languages of the Committee will be the same working languages of the Group. In the meantime, in the interest of the economy and in order to avoid difficulties in scheduling the meetings, the Committee will work, via rule, in the English language, unless otherwise provided. The working papers of the Committee may be presented in any of the other languages mentioned in the standard No. 25 of the Group's Rules of Procedure. The Secretariat, as far as possible, will arrange for the translation of the said documents into the English language.
Standard # 17
The minutes of the meetings will be drawn up by the Secretariat and forwarded to the members. Should any representative wish to change any of their statements recorded in the said acts, such amendment shall be made upon application to be forwarded to the Secretary within 21 days, from the date of the issuance of the minuta, and no new changes will be made, save if approved by the Committee at its following meeting.
Standard # 18
The information of ownership of the Committee, as well as the reports on procedures and all the other documents of the Committee and any of its subcommittees will be confidential until-and saved-decision contrary to the Group or the Committee.
Sub-committees
Standard # 19
The Committee will be able to constitute the subcommittees that judge appropriate, in the terms and conditions that come to define.
Secretariat
Standard # 20
The Secretary of the Group, or any official by him designated, shall exercise the function of Secretary of the Committee and, subject to the arrangements regarding the Secretariat's proofing that shall be taken up by the Group, shall hold the necessary Secretariat to the attention of the needs of the Committees and of any subcommittee, and for the performance of all the tasks delegated to the Secretariat.
Emendas
Standard # 21
The present norms may be emendable by deliberation of the Committee.
(LZ/11, Attachment?B?, of September 9, 1960).
Statistical Committee
The Statistical Committee was constituted when of the establishment of the Study Group. The membership of the Statistical Committee is open to all member governments, who will be assisted, during meetings, by consultants from their domestic lead and zinc industries. The objective of the Statistical Committee is to draw up detailed reviews of the world's leading and zinc supply and demand trends, presenting, at each session of the Study Group, an assessment of the world situation. The Statistical Committee also proceeds to reviews of the contents of the statistical bulletin and various aspects of lead and zinc production and consumption, through the subcommittees involved in new mining and smelting projects, lead and zinc secondary, as well as other aspects of the statistics on lead and zinc.
Economic Committee
The Economic Committee was set up in the 15ª session of the Study Group, in 1971, to give further work previously played by a Special Working Group constituted in the third session in 1961. Membership of the Economic Committee is open to all member governments, who are assisted during meetings by consultants from their domestic lead and zinc industries. The work of the Economic Committee is carried out through subcommittees and covers the production, consumption, environmental, economic and policy aspects regarding the world's leading and zinc industries. The Economic Committee prepares reports on the special studies carried out for use by the member countries of the Study Group, which are often made available for distribution to the public.
Sede Agreement between the International Study Group on
Chumbo and Zinco and the Government
of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
The Group Of International Studies on Chumbo and Zinc and
the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland;
Wishes to define the status, privileges, and immunities
of the Group and of the individuals linked to the same
Wake up what follows:
Article 1º
Terminology
For the purposes of this Agreement:
(a)?Group? means the International Studies Group on Chumbo and Zinco;
(b)?Government? means the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland;
(c)? representatives? means the representatives of members of the Group and, in that case, heads of delegations and their substitutes;
(d)? Group installations? means the constructions or parts of constructions, as well as the ancillary areas to the same, used for official purposes by the Group;
(e)? official activities of the Group? includes your administrative activities and those performed in compliance with your Terms of Reference in effect at any time; and
(f)? member frame of staff? means the Secretary-General and all persons designated or hired for full-time work in the Group and subject to the regulation of its personnel framework-to the exception of specialists-, persons providing domestic services to the Group, well as locally hired and paid hourly people.
Article 2º
Interpretation
The present Agreement will be interpreted to light from its precarious goal to empower the Group a, in its Sede in the United Kingdom, to efficiently and fully discharge itself from its responsibilities, as well as to fulfill its purposes and functions.
Article 3º
Personality Legal
The Group will have personality legal. The Group will, in particular, have the authority to rent, acquire and divest movable and immovable property, as well as to institute legal proceedings.
Article 4º
Inviolability of Files
The Group files will be inviolable. The term? files? includes all records, correspondence, documents, manuscripts, photographs, films and recordings belonging to the Group or in its power, as well as all the information contained in the said means.
Article 5º
Inviolability of facilities
(1) The facilities of the Group will be inviolable. The Government has a specific responsibility to adopt all appropriate measures to protect the Group's facilities against any encroachment or damage, as well as to prevent any disturbance of the Group's peace that comes to compromise its dignity.
(2) The location of the premises and the Group's archive will be given to know the Government by the Secretary-General, which will also inform the Government of any changes in the location or dimensions of the said premises or of the said archives, as well as any temporary occupancy with views to the exercise of their official duties. In the case where facilities are temporarily used or occupied by the Group for the exercise of their official duties, they shall be granted the same, upon concordance of the competent authorities, the status of premises of the Group.
(3) No Government employee or no public authority will have access to the premises of the Group, save upon the consent of the Secretary-General and in accordance with the conditions laid down by him. Such consent will be presumed in the event of a fire or other disasters requiring immediate protection action. The Government shall not permit, unless provided by the Secretary-General and in the conditions laid down by it, the access of services of any nature (except the courier service) to the premises of the Group, or the execution of any proceedings judicial or ancillary act, such as the confiscation of private property, as far as those same facilities are concerned.
(4) Without prejudice to the terms of this Agreement, the Group will not allow its facilities to are used as a refuge by persons who are trying to escape from prison or receiving citations, in accordance with UK law, or against which an extradition order or deportation order has been expedited by the competent authorities.
Article 6º
Installations
(1) The Government undertakes to assist the Group in the acquisition of premises either by donation, purchase, or renting as well as in the rental of premises, where necessary.
(2) The Government will strive to the fullest to provide facilities for the provision, in proper conditions, of essential public services, including electricity, water, sewage, gas, mail, telephone, telegraph, runoff, garbage collection, and fire protection. In the event of an interruption or threat of interruption of any service, the Government will adopt the appropriate measures to ensure that the Group is not harmed.
Article 7º
Bandeira and Emblema
The Group will have the right to display its flag and its emblem on the premises and the means of transport of the Group and the Secretary-General.
Article 8º
Immunity against Jurisdiction
(1) Within the framework of its official activities, the Group will have immunity from jurisdiction and execution, except:
(a) when the group waive that immunity in a specific judicial matter. The Group will have waived the immunity in question if, upon receipt of an immunity waiver request, either from another part of the process, whether from a physical or legal person interested in the solution of the same, the Group is not communicated, within 15 days of the date of the receipt of the solicitation, its decision not to waive the immunity in question;
(b) with regard to a civil action instituted by third parties for damages arising from accident caused by motor vehicle belonging to the Group or operated in its name, or in the referring to traffic offences involving the said vehicle;
(c) as far as the application of arbitral sentencing delivered in accordance with Article 22º or Article 23º of this Agreement; and
(d) in the case of retention, in fulfillment of court order, of salaries, remunerations or other emoluments owed by the Group to one of its employees.
(2) Subject to the paragraph (1) of the present Article, the properties and assets of the Group, regardless of your location, you will be immune from any administrative or interim legal action, such as forfeiture, kidnapping, expropriation or attachment, except to the extent to which the said action is temporarily necessary for prevention and investigation of accidents involving motorized vehicles belonging to the Group or operated on its behalf.
Article 9º
Exemption from Taxes
(1) Within the framework of your activities officers, the Group, as well as their immovable property and their income, will be exempt from all direct taxes. Direct taxes include income tax, tax on capital gains, legal person income tax, and municipal taxes that focus on the Group's facilities, except when, as in the case of diplomatic missions, these taxes represent payments for specific services provided. Municipal taxes will be, in the first instance, paid by the Government, and the share corresponding to payments for specific services provided will be collected by the Government with the Group.
(2) The Group will be ressarated from the car tax and value-added tax paid in the purchase of new motor vehicles manufactured in the United Kingdom and, where readily identifiable, of the value-added tax paid in the supply of goods or services of substantial value necessary for the exercise of the activities officers of the Group. For so much, applications for ressarcement will be made only with regard to products and services provided and provided periodically, or involving substantial quantities of products or, still, considerable expenditments, such as those effected with the acquisition of furniture for the Group. There will be no mishandling in the case of products and services whose total value is less than 100 pounds sterling.
Article 10º
Customs Tax Exemption
(1) The products whose import or export by the Group, or in their name, are required for the exercise of their official activities will be exempt from all taxes customs, as well as any other charges (except payments for services provided), as well as of all prohibitions and restrictions regarding import or export.
(2) The Group will be ressarated from customs taxes and value-added tax paid in the import of hydrocarbon oils by it acquired and necessary for the exercise of its official activities.
Article 11º
Exemption from Taxes and Rates
The exemption regarding the taxes and the fees provided for in Article 9º and Article 10º of this Agreement shall not be granted in the case of products or services that are to be imported for the personal use of a member of the Group's staff framework.
Article 12º
Revale
The products acquired in compliance with the Article 9º, or imported in accordance with Article 10º of this Agreement shall not be donated, sold, leased or otherwise disposed of, unless the competent authorities housed were previously notified and the possible taxes and fees paid.
Article 13º
Funds, Currency Current and Securities
The Group may receive, acquire, maintain and dispose freely from any types of funds, current currencies and securities.
Article 14º
Communications
(1) The Government will authorize and protect the unrestricted communication of the Group for all official purposes. The Group will be able to use all appropriate means of communication, including messages in code or cipher. In the meantime, the Group will only be able to install and use a wireless transmitter upon consent from the competent authorities. Where necessary, the Secretary-General shall authorize the inspection of wireless transmission equipment by the competent authorities.
Article 15º
Circulation of Publications
The circulation of publications and other informative materials submitted or received by the Group in the framework of its official activities will not be the subject of any restriction.
Article 16º
Representatives
(1) Representatives will enjoy, while in the exercise of its functions and in the course of its displacements from and to the location of its meeting, of the privileges and implants below delineated:
(a) immunity from arrest and detention, as well as against the confiscation of your personal baggage, except when blatant in the comet, in the attempt to commit, or soon after the commitment of an offence;
(b) immunity against jurisdiction (even after the termination of its mission) with regard to acts, including written or spoken words, practiced in the exercise of their duties. Such immunity shall not apply, however, in the case of traffic offences committed by a representative, or from damage caused by motor vehicle belonging to or directed by that representative.
(c) Inviolability of all their official papers and documents;
(d) Exemption, for the representatives and their spouses, of all restrictive measures of entry, of fees referring to visas and registration formalities for immigration control purposes;
(e) Unless residents in the United Kingdom for exchange control purposes, the same exchange control treatment conferred on diplomatic agents;
(f) The same customs facilities conferred on diplomatic agents, as far as their personal baggage is concerned.
(2) The provisions of the preceding paragraph shall apply irrespective of the relations existing between the Governments represented by the said persons and the Government of the United Kingdom, without prejudice to any special immunities to which such persons are entitled.
(3) The privileges and immunities described in paragraph (1) of this Agreement shall not be conferred upon any representative of the Government or any citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies.
(4) The privileges and immunities are conferred on the representatives with the goal of ensure full independence in the exercise of its functions in the Group. A Member State shall waive the immunity of its representatives when it entails prejudice to the course of justice and when the waiver in question does not prejudice the purposes for which the same has been conferred.
(5) In order to assist the Government in the implementation of the provisions of this Article, the Group will inform the Government, as far as possible, the names of its representatives, prior to its arrival in the United Kingdom.
Article 17º
Members of the Staff Framework
The members of the frame of group personnel:
(a) will have (even after leaving the Group's services) immunity against jurisdiction with regard to acts practiced in the exercise of their duties, including written and spoken words. Such immunity shall not apply, meanwhile, in the case of traffic offences committed by a representative, or in the case of damage caused by motor vehicle belonging to or directed by that representative.
(b) will be exempt from any obligations regarding military service. Members of their families living on the same roof shall enjoy the same exemption, provided that such exemption does not apply to a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies;
(c) will enjoy inviolability with regard to all of their official papers and documents;
(d) will enjoy exemption with regard to all restrictive measures of entry, from visa fees, well as from registration formalities for immigration control purposes. The members of their families living under the same roof will have the same prerogatives;
(e) unless UK citizens and Colonies or permanent residents of the UK, will, when taking up their posts in the UK, exempt from customs and other customs charges (except the simple payment for services provided), in the which refers to the import of your furniture and belongings (inclusive motor vehicle) of your property or in your power, or already ordered and intended for personal use or your residence in the United Kingdom. These products will be, as a rule, imported within three months of the date of their first entry into the UK. In the meantime, under special circumstances, an extension of that period could be granted. The privilege will be subject to the conditions governing the disposal of imported goods to the United Kingdom duty-free as well as the general restrictions applied in the United Kingdom to all imports.
Article 18º
Specialists
The experts (except when members of the personnel framework) in the exercise of their duties in the Group, or in fulfilling assignments to the Group shall enjoy the following prerogatives, in so far as they are necessary for the exercise of their duties, including for displacements performed on the performance of its functions and in the course of the said missions:
(a) even after the termination of its activities in the Group, immunity against jurisdiction with regard to acts practiced in the exercise of its functions, inclusive of written words and spoken, except in the case of traffic offences committed by an expert, or from damage caused by motor vehicle to it belonging to or by it directed; and
(b) inviolability of all their official papers and documents;
Article 19º
Income Tax
(1) Members of the Group's staff board will be subject to a tax levied by the Group, in their favour, on salaries and remuneration paid by the Group. From the date on which such a tax is applied, the salaries and remuneration in question will be exempt from the prevailing income tax in the UK. In the meantime, the Government will reserve the right to take these salaries into account and those remunerations in calculating the value of the incident tax on rents arising from other sources.
(2) Should the Group operate a system for the payment of pensions and peculios to former members of your staffing framework, the provisions of paragraph (1) of this Article shall not apply to pensions and peculios in question.
Article 20º
Object of Privileges and Immunities. Renunciation
(1) The privileges and immunities conferred in accordance with this Agreement the members of the staffing framework and the experts aim to, solely, ensure, in all circumstances, the free functioning of the Group and the full independence of the persons to which the privileges and immunities in question are conferred.
(2) The Secretary-General shall have the right and obligation to suspend the said immunities (à exception of their own immunities), should they judge that they may hinder compliance with the right, and where such suspension does not redunge in injury to the Group. The Group may suspend the immunities of the Secretary-General.
Article 21º
Cooperation
The Group will cooperate, in all times, with the competent authorities in order to prevent any abuses of the privileges and immunities as well as the facilities of which it treats the present Article. The right of the Government to adopt all preventive measures in the interest of its security shall not be prejudiced by any provision of this Agreement.
Article 23º
Arbitration
When the Group firm contracts (à exception of contracts signed in accordance with the regulation of the personnel framework) with a resident of the United Kingdom, or with an organisation constituted or based in the United Kingdom, by means of a formal instrument, the said instrument shall include a clause on arbitration, on the basis of which any controversies arising out of the interpretation or application of the contract may, upon request by either party, be submitted to private arbitration.
Article 23º
Forwarding to an International Court of Arbitration
Mediant request from the Government, the Group will forward to an international arbitration tribunal any controversies:
(a) arising from damage caused by the Group;
(b) that involve any other non-contractual liability of the Group; and
(c) involving a member of the staff frame or a specialist of the Group, and in relation to which the person involved may claim immunity from jurisdiction in accordance with this Agreement, and provided that such immunity has not been suspended.
Article 24º
Notification of Nomination. Identity Ballot
(1) The Group will inform the Government whenever a member of the framework of staff or an expert take over or leave your job. In addition, the Group will send to the Government, from time to time, a relationship containing the names of all members of the personnel framework and specialists. In each case, the Group will indicate whether a member of the staff board is a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies, or permanent resident of the United Kingdom.
(2) By being informed about your appointment, the Government will issue, for all members of the framework of personnel and the experts, an identity ballot with the photograph of the holder, identifying him as a member of the staff frame. The said ballot will be accepted by the competent authorities as proof of identity and appointment. The Group will return the identity ballot to the Government as soon as the bearer leaves his post.
Article 25º
Modified
Mediant request from the Group or the Government, consultations will be held with regard to the implementation, modification or extension of this Agreement. Any understanding, modification or extension will be able to pass the viger upon Exchange of Letters between a representative of the Secretary-General (after approval by the Group) and the Government.
Article 26º
Controversias
Any controversy between the Group and the Government regarding the interpretation or application of this Agreement, as well as any matter affecting the relations between the Group and the Government that cannot be resolved by means of negotiation or any other agreed method will be submitted, for final decision, to a panel of three referees. One such arbitrator shall be chosen by the Principal Secretary of State for External Affairs and the Community of His Majesty's Nations; the second, by the Secretary-General and the third party, who shall be the President of the Court, by the first two arbitrators. Should the first two arbitrators fail to reach an agreement on the name of the third arbitrator within one year from the date of its designation, the third arbitrator, upon request by the Group or the Government, shall be chosen by the President of the Court International of Justice.
Article 27º
Input in Vigor and Termination
(1) The present Agreement will enter into force on the date of its signature.
(2) The present Agreement may be terminated from common agreement between the Group and the Government. Should the Group's Sede come to be transferred from the territory of the United Kingdom, the duration of this Agreement shall cease, fining the period necessary for the realization of the said transfer and the disposal of the Group's assets in the United Kingdom.
In testimony, the respective representatives have signed the present Agreement.
Made in two lanes, in London, at 21 days of the month of December 1978.
By The Group of International Studies on Chumbo and Zinc:
W. Keith Buck
By the United Kingdom Government of Great Britain and Northern Ireland:
Evan Luard
(LZ/SC/ 191 January 1979).
Supplementary Article to the Seat Agreement, signed by means of exchange of letters between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the International Studies Group on Chumbo and Zinc, dated March 9, 1979:
When the International Studies Group on Chumbo and Zinco create their own social security system or join the system of another international organization, the members of the Group of Studies staff framework-as laid out in Article 1 (f) of the Sede Agreement between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the International Studies Group on Chumbo and Zinc-which are not citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies or, still, permanent residents of the United Kingdom, will enjoy exemptions, in cases where the services provided to the Study Group are excluded from any category of employment on which to focus the payment of contributions or prizes, by virtue of decrees on social security in force in the United Kingdom.
(LZ/SC/193 of March 13, 1979).
