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Treaty Between Norway, The United States, Denmark, France, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, United Kingdom And Ireland And The British Overseas Possession And Sweden Concerning Spitsbergen [Svalbard ..

Original Language Title: Traktat mellem Norge, Amerikas Forente Stater, Danmark, Frankrike, Italia, Japan, Nederlandene, Storbritannia og Irland og de britiske oversjøiske besiddelser og Sverige angående Spitsbergen [Svalbard..

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Accord Mellem Norway, the United States of America, Denmark, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands and Ireland and the British Overseas Sea and Sweden regarding Spitsbergen [ Svalbardtreaty ].

Date LO-1920--02-09
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The treaty is ratified by the All mentioned signatars and ratification documents are deposited in Paris to eftermentioned times : the Netherlands 3 sep 1920, Britain 29 des 1923, the United States of America 2 apr 1924, Italy 6 aug 1924, France 6 sep 1924, Sweden 15 sep 1924, Norway 8 oct 1924, Japan 2 apr 1925.

The treaty is in its entirety in effect the 14 aug 1925.

The treaty is attributed to Afghanistan, Albania, Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Denmark, The Dominican Republic, Egypt, France, Finland, Greece, India, Italy, Japan, China, Monaco, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia (Hedjaz), Spain, Britain, Switzerland, Sweden, South Africa, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, USA, Venezuela and Austria.

See species 10 (3).

Art 1.De eastie contrasts parties agree to acknowledge under the terms determined in near-term treaty Norway's full and undiminished earshot of the Spitsbergenet group, which besides Bear Island or Beer-Eiland include all queues mellem 10 ° and 35 ° length east of Greenwich and mellem 74 ° and 81 ° north width, especially : West Spitsbergen, the Northern East country, Baths ' Beer, Edge-Beer, King Karls Land. The Hopen or Hopen-Eiland and Prince Karls Forland tilted with all those queues, holmer and cut, which hear the ear (see it passed-on map).
Art 2. All of the eae counterparts skib and subjects shall have equal right to fishing and hunting within the areas mentioned in articulal 1 and their territorial waters.

It is due to Norway to enforce, hit or determine appropriate precautions to secure the preservation and-if needed-reopfix of expensive and plant life within the mentioned areas and their territorial waters, dog so, that these precautions always shall be applied equally to all of the courided parters subjects without no gene any undits, business and benefices, directly or indirectly, to the benefit of the nogen of them.

The occupiers whose rights are recognized in accordance with the provisions of the articles 6 and 7, shall have exclusive to hunt for their foundations : 1. in close to housing, houses, magazines, workshops and facilities opled to exploitation of the base, on terms stipulined in the Site of the Site of Police Regulations ; 2. within an area of 10 kilometers of the enterprises or corporate capital-and in both case under the premise that they correct the regulations that the Norwegian government is providing over-compliance with the terms of this article.

Art 3.All de herie counterparts subjects are going to the waters, the fjorts and ports within the areas mentioned in Article 1 have equal right to access and op-without consideration for reason or purpose ; they shall there be able to drive unhindered all kinds of maritis, industrial, tow and trading business on completely equal foot, provided that they correct the site of the site laws and regulations.

They shall have the same access to drive and take advantage of all maritime, industrial, salvage and trade enterprises both to the country and in the territorial waters, without noting a monopoly in the nogen regard or to benefit for the noble enterprises should be introduced.

Regardless of the rules that would have to apply in Norway for coastal speed, they will harvest parters skib on travel to or from the areas mentioned in Article 1 have the right to anode Norwegian ports, both on the op and the nedrest, to take aboard or put ashore travelers or goods, which are going to or come from the mentioned areas-or for any other reason.

There is unity about, that where not in the nogen regard and especially of the not-only concern, incomes and resettlement shall be placed nogen of the courthening of the courters, their skib and goods nogen that preferably burden or narrow down as not comes to the Applicability alike to subjects, skib or goods, as in Norway's most beneficial treatment, as Norwegian subjects, skib and goods in so manner equal to the other courtier parters and not to be treated favourable in the nogen direction.

Where to not impose the execution of goods determined to nogen of the counterparts of the counterparts, the areas of nogen other or more thinly burden or increase than there is determined for the execution of the same kind of goods to a different contrasting macro (deriv. Norway's) territory or to any other country.

Art 4.All public wireless telegraph stations that are or are op-directed with the Norwegian government's permission or effering its measures mentioned in Article 1 should always stand open on completely equal feet for announcements from the skib of all flags and from the earshot of the earshot of the earters of those terms determined in the radio-graph agreement of 5 July 1912 or is determined in the international agreement that needed to be terminated instead of it.

Under the reservations of the mellemonfold obligations that had to follow by war state, owners of the ground will always be able to opt and apply for their own use of devices for wireless telegraphy, which in private affairs shall have access to three in The connection with fixed or moving stations, derunder authored stations aboard the skib and air of air aviation.

Art 5.De Rikie counterparts parties acknowledge the usefulness of opting an international meteorological station in the suitable mentioned in Article 1. The arrangement of this station will be the subject of a later agreement.

There, as of the agreement, the provision of agreement shall be met if the conditions under the videnate research shall be able to be driven in the mentioned suitable.

Art 6.With the provisions of the provisions of the near-term article shall be-owned rights belonging to the earshot of the earshot of the earshot of the earters of the herior of the people's subjects.

Requirements that are op-ed by the side-time agendas or occupation made prior to the underdrawing of this treaty shall be arranged for the provisions of the passed-on auto-layer, which shall have the same effect and validity as close treaty.

Art 7.With regard to erofication, exploitation and exercise of property rights, derunder-authored salvage rights, committed Norway silig to in the areas mentioned in Article 1, admit all the courtherids of the courseers. based on full equality and overstated with the provisions of the presence of the treaty.

Espoprication can only happen to almen's purpose and against full compensation.

Art 8.For the areas mentioned in Article 1 Committer Norway sig to istantro a salvage arrangement that particularly with respect to taxes, fees or fees of any species and the aluminous work terms should rule out all business names, monopolies or benefications benefit from the state or for subjects of the nogen of the courtherized parties, Norway inauthored, and secure the paid staff of any species the necessary wage guarantees and guarantees of protection of its physical, moral and intellectual wellbeing.

The taxes, fees and fees as op-are should be exclusively to come about the mentioned areas of good and can only be placed in the extent that their ear-with dictates.

Barely particularly concerns the execution of minerals has the Norwegian government access to impose an export toxin, as the dog for the first 100,000 tons does not have to exceed 1 pct. of the performed mineral and derefter is calculated efall a descending scale. The value shall be determined at the expiration of the shale season, on the basis of an estimate of the op-reached reaverage fob.

The Norwegian government shall have conserved the other contraviating powers the draft of the salvage arrangement 3 months before it takes effect. If one or more of the mentioned powers within this deadline suggest that there be changes to it, before it is brought into the Applicability, the Norwegian government shall inform these suggestions for the other counterlords that they may be tried and settled by a The commission consisting of one representative for each of the mentioned powers. This commission is called by the Norwegian government and is due to hit its decision within a due date of 3 months effortless that it has been stepped down. Its decisions are met with vocal mulchiness.

Art 9.With the reservation of the rights and duties of Norway as follows of its inauguration of the People's Forbund Committer Norway sissives to not optfully or permit op-fixed nogen fleet basis in the suitable mentioned in Article 1 or the ingen nogen stronghold in the above mentioned suitable ones that must never be enjoyed in the war of war with. Art 10.Until the courtrove of a Russian government had to give Russia the occasion to add to this treaty, Russian subjects and corporations are going to enjoy the same rights as the courtrove parters subjects.

Claims they had to have to do current within the areas mentioned in Article 1 shall, under the conditions determined in Article 6 and the bilinted to this treaty, re-imposed the Danish government, declaring the sig of their well-willing complicity on that occasion.

Nearby treaty , if French and English text should be authentic, will be ratify.

The ratification documents shall be deposited in Paris as soon as possible.

The powers whose government has its distinctive outside of Europe should be able to be able to further inform the French Republic of government reserving its diplomatic representative in Paris that they have ratified, and should in so-fall ratification the ratification document ASAP possible.

This treaty takes effect, barely concerns the provisions of Article 8, in effect, when it has been ratified by any of the signatars, and in all other executions at the same time with it in the articulated plant arrangement.

The outsiders are to be made by the French Republic of the French Republic of the government to cease the silification of this treaty, when it is duly ratified. This deduction should happen at notification to the French government that will have to inform the other counterparts parties.

To the confirmation of this, the above mentioned besotted deputies has signed the presence of treaty.

The finishing in Paris on the 9th of February 1920, in two copies, of which one is attributed to His Majesty Norway Norway's Government and the other is deposited in the French Republic of Archive ; authentic transcripts will be attributed to the other signatars.

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SECTION 1.1. Notification about all claims in rural areas that had to have been protested for a government before the underdrawing of this treaty shall within 3 months effortthat this treaty is in effect, by The collar man government is attributed to a commissioner who has in opting to try the requirements. The Commissioner shall be a judge or judicial conduct of Danish nationality and in the possession of the necessary qualifications and the equalised of the Danish Government.
2. The notification must contain an tentative indication of the limits of the fields in which are claimed, and be accompanied by a map in a scale not under 1/1,000,000 and wherein the field should be clear.
3. Notification must be accompanied by a deposit of 1 penny per. acre (40 ar) of that field, there is claimed, to coverage of the cost of the charges by the ordeal of the requirements.
4. The commissioner can be requested by the Skitters that they provide all other documents, tactics, or oplylations that he needed to find necessary.
5. The commissioner is going to try out the demands that thus are notified. In this practice, he can resort to such plain-savvy assistance that he needed to find necessary and in case go to investigations at the scene.
6. The Commission's allowance shall be determined by the agreement of the Danish Government and the other interested governments. The commissioner determines even the allowance for the helpers as he finds it necessary to take advantage of.
7. When the Commissioner has tried the demands, he will devise a statement that nicious indicates those requirements in which his opinion should be approved immediately as due, and those as he, either because of the dispute or for any other reason, believes should be underhanded arbitration as below were reacted. Copies of this statement by the Commissioner of the Commissioner shall be attributed to the interested governments.
8. If the sum of the amounts deposited in accordance with record 3 is insufficient to cover the cost of the requirements, the commissioner shall, if he finds the claim to be due, immediately indicate the additional amount that the claim is to pay. The size of this amount shall be determined the efloting of the field where the claim of the collar man is recognised.

If the size of the amount deposited in accordance with record 3 exceeds the above mentioned charges, it shall excess be used to cover the expenses of the below-led arbitration.

9. Within 3 months from the date of the disclosure mentioned in post 7 in this paragraph, the Norwegian government shall take the necessary steps to inform them, if the claims the Commissioner has recognized, valid home document, which secures them the exclusively property rights to the person field, overstated with the laws and regulations that had to apply or become current for the areas mentioned in Article 1 of this treaty and with the reservation of the tow-line arrangement mentioned in the treaty's Article 8.

In the case of an additional payment needed to be required to be given the mail 8 above, however, the dog will only be issued a temporary home document, which becomes final when the claim of the claim within a such timely deadline as the Norwegian government had to determine, has paid mentioned an additional amount.

Section 2.Requirements as the one in entry 1 of the previous paragraph mentioned the commissioner of some reason has not recognized as due, shall be decided on the following rules :
1. Within 3 months from the date of the disclosure mentioned in record 7 of the previous paragraph shall any of the governments, whose subjects have demands that are not recognised, opmentioning an arbitrator.

The commissioner is supposed to be chairman of the op-court of the op-court of the court. He is going to have the decisive voice in the case of vocal resemblance. He opmentions a secretary to receive the documents mentioned in post 2 in this paragraph and to meet the necessary premoles to the court's interient.

2. Within one month the opting of the appointment of the secretary mentioned in post 1 shall the claim of the gunmen redeem his respective governments attributed to their claims and is accompanied by all documents and resins as they had to want to make current support for the requirements.
3. Within two months, the opting of the secretary mentioned in post 1 shall court three together in the Bubenport to try the claims that have been brought for it.
4. The court's spand is English. All documents or relegation can be lectalized the one of the interested parties in their own sprinting, but should in so case be accompanied by a translation into English.
5. If the Skitters will be welcoming about it, they shall have the right to be heard by the court either personally or at the court of law, and the court shall have the right to demand the claim of the claim, any further account, documents or resettlement as it had to consider necessary.
6. Prior to the court hearing in the case, it shall require by the parties deposit or security measures for the amount that it finds necessary for coverage of the share of the expenses at the court that falls on each claim. By determining the size of the amounts to the court, the court first and foremost take into consideration the outlining of the field required. It can also require further deposit of the parties in cases that involve the shonest expenses.
7. The arbitrator's allowance shall be determined for the month and is determined by the interested governments. The Chairman establishes the allowance for the secretary and all the other people that the court makes use of.
8. With the reservations of the determination in this automobile, the Court shall have full authority to determine its own trial arrangement.
9. At the ordeal of the requirements, the Court shall take into consideration :
a) All the folk-specific rules that are applicable on the case ;
b) Almintible justification and image base statements ;
c) The following circumstances :
1) The date, when the field required, bliv occupied for the first time by the claim of his claim or his home men ;
2) The date, when the claim was reported to the claim of the man's government ;
3) The extent, wherein the claim of the claim, or his home-life men have been able to work and took advantage of the field he required. In this connection, the Court shall take into account the circumstances or the unrestricted conditions there as a result of the state of war from 1914 to 1919 may have prevented the claims of the claim.
10. All of the expenses at the Court shall be distributed on the claim of the Skitters in such conditions as the court decides. If the sum of the amounts deposited in accordance with post 6 shoulder anchors to more than the cost of the court, the excess is payable back to them whose claims have been recognised and in such conditions as the court finds cheap.
11 The Dome shall announce its decisions to the interested governments and in all the case of the Norwegian government.

The Norwegian government is due to within three months the reception of each decision take the necessary steps to inform the claims of the court, if claims have been recognized by the court, valid home documents overpace with the laws and regulations that applies or will be current for the areas mentioned in Article 1 of this treaty and with the reservation of the salvage arrangement mentioned in the treaty of the treaty 8. The home documents are not final until the claim of the claim has paid off its relatively fair share of the expenses by the court within a timely timely deadline that the Norwegian government had to determine.

Section 3.Any claim that has not been notified the commissioner overtaking with post 1 in Article 1, or who has not been recognized by him and not inspent for the Court of Justice to be deemed to be finally lost.