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Each Party shall gradually reduce and/or eliminate its customs duties on goods originating in the other Party in accordance with Annex 1 (Customs Obligations). Each Party shall grant national treatment to the other Party's goods in accordance with Article III of the GATT 1994.

Customs Valuation

To this end, Article III of the GATT 1994 is incorporated into and shall form part of this Agreement, mutatis mutandis. Each Party shall make available online a current list of the tariffs and charges it imposes in connection with importation or exportation.

Transparency

Neither Party may require consular transactions, including related fees and charges, in connection with the importation of the other Party's goods. In accordance with its laws and regulations and to the extent possible, each Party shall make laws, regulations, decisions and rulings referred to in paragraph 1 available on the Internet.

Non-Tariff Measures

Import Licensing

The Parties will mutually decide whether any revisions to the implementation of Annex 1 (Lists of Tariff Obligations) are necessary due to periodic amendments to the HS. Where the Parties decide that revisions are necessary in accordance with paragraph 1, the Parties, through the FTA Joint Commission or an appropriate subsidiary body established by it, shall approve and promptly publish such revisions.

RULES OF ORIGIN

Definitions

Originating Goods

For the purposes of Article 3.2 (Originating Goods), a good wholly obtained or produced in the territory of one or both Parties means:. a) minerals and other naturally occurring substances that are extracted or taken there;.

Cumulation

Production that takes place in the territory of one or both of the Parties by one or more producers will count as qualifying content in determining the origin of a good, regardless of whether that production was sufficient to confer originating status on the material used in the manufacture of that good. well.

De Minimis

When accessories, spare parts, tools and materials with instructions or other information accompanying the goods are not normal for the goods or are invoiced separately from the goods, they are treated as separate goods for the purpose of determining origin.

Fungible Materials

Indirect Material

Minimal Operations

The value of a good as referred to in paragraph 1 is:. a) for goods to be exported, the FOB value of the goods determined under the customs valuation agreement; or. (b) for goods acquired in the territory of the Party where the good was produced, the earliest verifiable price paid or payable for the good, determined mutatis mutandis for domestic transactions under the Customs Valuation Agreement. For the purposes of this article, the value of a material is: . a) for a material imported by the producer of the good, the value of the material;

Recording of Costs

Consignment

Issuing Authority

When there is no doubt as to the origin of the good, the discovery of minor transcription errors or discrepancies in the documentation will not ipso facto invalidate the origin declaration or certificate of origin, if indeed it corresponds to the goods submitted. For several goods declared under the same origin declaration or certificate, a problem with one of the listed goods will not affect or delay the granting of the preferential tariff treatment and clearance of the remaining goods declared in the origin declaration or certificate . by origin.

Records

The importing party shall require an importer to immediately make a corrected import declaration and pay any duties due when the importer has reason to believe that the goods do not meet the origin requirements. A Declaration of Origin or Certificate of Origin shall not be required where the total customs value of the originating goods does not exceed US$200 FOB or the equivalent amount in that Party's currency, or such higher amount as the Party may determine, provided that the importation does not form part of one or more imports which may reasonably be considered to have been undertaken or arranged for the purpose of avoiding the requirements of this Chapter.

Origin Verification

Confidentiality

Appeal

HS Amendments

Deletions or overlaps on the Statement of Origin or the Certificate of Origin are not allowed. The data that must be included in the Declaration of Origin or the Certificate of Origin are:. (a) name and details of the exporter/producer;.

Scope

Definitions

Cooperation

Risk Management

Advance Rulings

Subject to paragraph 4, each Party shall apply an advance decision to imports into its territory from the date it issues the decision or such other date as may be specified in the decision. Any fees charged for advance decisions may not exceed the estimated cost of the service rendered when the advance decision is issued.

Review and Appeal

A Party may modify or revoke a preliminary ruling when there is a determination that the preliminary ruling was based on an error of fact or law, or if there is a change in: a) his law in accordance with the relevant provisions of this Agreement; or (b) a material fact; or. c) the circumstances on which the decision was based. Each Party shall publish online and/or in print its applicable customs laws, regulations and procedures or applicable by its Customs Administration.

Confidentiality

The Party shall ensure the same treatment of all imports, regardless of the importer, exporter or producer concerned, where the facts and circumstances are identical in all material respects. Each Party shall designate one or more inquiry points to address inquiries from interested persons on customs matters and shall make information on the procedures for making such inquiries available on the Internet.

Objectives

Scope

Definitions

The parties must cooperate to improve the implementation of the SPS agreement, including through: (a) exchanging information regarding their implementation of the SPS Agreement; and. The Parties note the existence of the Malaysia-Australia Agricultural Cooperation Working Group (MAACWG) and its sub-working groups.

Objectives

Scope

Definitions

Basic Principles

Standards

The Parties shall exchange information on their experience in the development and use of the mechanisms referred to in subparagraphs 1(a)-(f) and other similar mechanisms in order to facilitate the acceptance of conformity assessment results. The Parties will strengthen their joint work on standards, technical regulations and conformity assessment procedures to facilitate access to each other's markets.

TRADE REMEDIES

Definitions

The rights and obligations of the parties regarding the implementation of anti-dumping measures shall be governed by Article VI of the GATT 1994 and the Anti-Dumping Agreement. The rights and obligations of the parties regarding subsidies and countervailing measures shall be governed by Article XVI of the GATT 1994 and the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures.

Cooperation

Scope

Investigation

Notification

Upon request, the party applying or extending a protective measure shall, as far as possible, provide additional information that the other party may deem necessary. A party may not maintain a protective measure:. a) except to the extent and for such time as may be necessary to prevent or remedy serious injury and to facilitate adjustment.

Compensation

TRADE IN SERVICES

Scope

Definitions

These activities do not include the price of air transport services or applicable conditions; i) service consumer means any person who receives or uses a service; j) the service of the Other Party means a service that is offered:. i) from or in the territory of that Party, or in the case of maritime transport, by a vessel registered under the law of that Party, or by a person of that Party who provides the service through the operation of a vessel and/or the use thereof wholly or partially; or. ii) in the case of providing a service through commercial presence or through the presence of natural persons, by a service supplier of that Party;. k) services include any service in any sector, except services provided in the exercise of governmental authority; l) service provided in the exercise of governmental authority means any service which is offered neither on a commercial basis nor in competition with one or more service providers; m) the service supplier of a Party means a person of that Party who provides a service6;. n) the supply of a service includes the production, distribution, trading, sale and provision of a service;. Such treatment shall extend to the presence through which the service is provided and need not extend to any other part of the supplier located outside the territory where the service is provided. o) trade in services means the supply of a service:. i) from the territory of one Party to the territory of the other Party;. ii) in the territory of one Party for the consumer of the service of the other Party;. iii) by a service provider of one Party, through the commercial presence in the territory of the other Party; and. iv) by a service provider of one Party, through the presence of natural persons of that Party in the territory of the other Party; and. p) traffic rights means the right for scheduled and non-scheduled services to operate and/or transport passengers, goods and mail for reward or hire from, to, within or over the territory of a Party, including points to be served; the routes to be operated, the types of traffic to be carried, the capacity to be provided, the fares to be charged and their conditions, and the criteria for determining airlines, including criteria such as number, ownership and control.

National Treatment

The Free Trade Agreement Joint Commission or any subsidiary body established by it may consider any matter related to the implementation of this Chapter and its Annex on Financial Services, Chapter 9 (Telecommunications Services), Chapter 10 (Movement of Individuals) and chapter 11 (framework). on mutual recognition arrangements), including:.

Market Access

Each Party shall set out in a plan the specific commitments it undertakes under Article 8.3 (National Treatment), Article 8.5 (Market Access) and Article 8.7 (Additional Commitments). Measures inconsistent with Article 8.3 (National Treatment) and Article 8.5 (Market Access) shall be noted in the column relating to Market Access.

Domestic Regulation

The specific obligations regarding the provision of a service by a service provider of one Party through the presence of natural persons of one Party in the territory of the other Party are set out in Annex 4 (forms for movements of natural persons' obligations) of this Agreement. In sectors where specific professional services obligations are entered into, each Party shall provide for appropriate procedures to verify the competence of professionals of the other Party.

Recognition

Subject to its laws and regulations, each Party shall permit service providers of the other Party to use the business names under which they normally trade in the territory of the other Party, and shall ensure that the use of business names is not unduly restricted. such supplier shall not abuse its monopoly position to operate in its territory in a manner inconsistent with such commitments. If a Party has reason to believe that a monopoly service provider of the other Party is operating in a manner that does not comply with paragraph 1 or 2, it may require the Party that establishes, maintains or authorizes such provider to provide specific information regarding the relevant activities. on its territory.

Business Practices

Except under the circumstances contemplated in Article 18.4 (Measures to Secure the Balance of Payments) of Chapter 18 (General Provisions and Exceptions), a Party shall not apply restrictions on international transfers and payments for current transactions related to its specific obligations. Nothing in this Chapter shall affect the rights and obligations of the Parties as members of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) under the IMF Articles of Agreement, including the use of exchange actions consistent with the IMF Articles of Agreement, with provided that a Party may not impose restrictions on any capital transactions that are inconsistent with its obligations under this Chapter regarding such transactions, except under Article 18.4 (Measures to Secure the Balance of Payments) of Chapter 18 (General Provisions and Exceptions), or at the request of the IMF.

Denial of Benefits

In such consultations, the Parties shall endeavor to reach a mutually acceptable solution within a reasonable time. In revising the commitments under paragraph 1, the Parties shall take into account Article IV, paragraph 1, and Article XIX, paragraph 2 of the GATS.

Scope

Definitions

Pursuant to paragraph 1, a financial institution of a Party may apply to the other Party to consider authorizing the provision of a financial service that is not provided in either party's territory. These measures shall not be a means of arbitrary or unjustifiable discrimination against financial service providers or financial institutions of the other Party compared to its own similar financial service providers or financial institutions, or a disguised restriction on trade in services.

Recognition

Each Contracting Party shall endeavor to: a) publish in advance any measure of general application relating to the subject matter of this Annex which it intends to adopt and the purpose of the measure;. At the written request of the applicant, the regulatory authority of the Contracting Party shall notify the applicant in writing of the status of his application.

Dispute Settlement

At the written request of an unsuccessful applicant, a regulatory authority that has refused an application will attempt to inform the applicant in writing of the reasons for the refusal of the application. Under terms and conditions granting national treatment, each Party shall grant financial institutions of the other Party established in its territory access to payment and settlement systems operated by public entities and to official funding and refinancing facilities provided in the normal conduct of ordinary business.

Objective

Scope

Definitions

For greater certainty, the "relevant market" may refer to a market for the supply of public telecommunications networks or services (or part thereof) provided by any supplier of public telecommunications networks or services, which the supplier his opportunity to materially influence the conditions and participation in the market (taking into account price and supply). j) number portability means the ability of end users of public telecommunications networks or services to keep existing telephone numbers when switching between providers of public telecommunications networks or services; k) physical co-location means physical access to space for the purpose of installing, maintaining or repairing equipment, in premises owned or controlled and used by a main supplier for the supply of public telecommunications services; l) Public telecommunication network means the telecommunication infrastructure used for the provision of public telecommunication services; m) public telecommunications service means any telecommunications service offered to the public in general. To be sure, a party's ministers or cabinet is not such a body; and. r) user means an end user or a supplier of public telecommunications networks or services.

Access and Use

Notwithstanding paragraph 4, a Party may take the necessary measures to: a) guarantee the security and confidentiality of messages; or. b) to protect the privacy of personal data of end users of public telecommunications networks or services. provided that such measures are not applied in a manner that would constitute a means of arbitrary or unjustifiable discrimination or disguised restriction on trade in services. Each Party shall ensure that no conditions are imposed on access to and use of public telecommunications networks or services, unless necessary for: a) to protect the public service responsibilities of suppliers of public telecommunications networks or services, in particular their ability to make their networks or services available to the public at large; or (b) protect the technical integrity of public telecommunications networks or.

Interconnection

Number Portability

Dialling Parity

Each Party shall maintain appropriate measures, including the effective enforcement of such measures, with the aim of preventing suppliers who, alone or together, are a major supplier in its territory from engaging in or continuing anti-competitive practices. The anti-competitive practices referred to in paragraph 1 include:. a) engaging in anti-competitive cross-subsidisation;.

Resale

Each Party shall ensure that major suppliers in its territory provide interconnection of facilities and equipment of suppliers of public telecommunications networks or services of the other Party:. a) at any technically possible point in the large supplier's network;. Each Party shall ensure that major suppliers in its territory provide to suppliers of public telecommunications networks or services of the other Party leased circuit services that are public telecommunications services in a timely manner on terms and conditions and at prices that are reasonable, non-discriminatory and transparent.

Co-Location

Each Party shall ensure that the procedures applicable to interconnection negotiations with major suppliers in its territory are made public. In fulfilling its obligations under paragraph 1, each Party shall grant its telecommunications regulatory authority the authority to require major suppliers in its territory to provide such leased circuit services that are public telecommunications services to suppliers of public telecommunications networks or services of the other Party on capacity-based, cost-oriented pricing.

Access to Facilities

Each Party may, in accordance with its laws and regulations, determine the locations where it requires major suppliers in its territory to provide the physical co-location or practical and commercially viable alternative solutions referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2.

Denial of Access

Each Party shall ensure that the decisions and procedures of its telecommunications regulatory body are impartial with respect to all persons concerned. To this end, each Party shall ensure that any financial interest it has in a supplier of public telecommunications networks or services does not influence the decisions and proceedings of its telecommunications regulatory body.

Universal Service

Each Party shall ensure that the decisions of, and the procedures used by, its telecommunications regulatory body are fair and impartial and are taken and implemented without undue delay.

Licensing Process

When making a spectrum allocation for non-governmental telecommunications networks or services, each Party shall endeavor to rely on an open and transparent public comment process that takes into account the overall public interest. Each Party shall endeavor to rely generally on market-based approaches in allocating spectrum for terrestrial non-governmental telecommunications services.

Enforcement

Pursuant to Chapter 17 (Transparency), each Party shall ensure the following: a) suppliers of public telecommunications networks or services of the other Party may request timely review by a telecommunications regulatory body or other relevant body of the Party to resolve complaints or disputes between suppliers of public telecommunications networks or services regarding the measures of the Party in relation to the issues defined in articles 9.4 to 9.17;. Neither party may prevent suppliers of public telecommunications networks or services from having the flexibility to choose the technologies they use to provide their services, including commercial mobile cellular services and packet-based services, depending on requirements necessary to satisfy the legitimate interests of public policy15.

Industry Participation

Notwithstanding paragraph 1, a Party may apply measures that limit the technologies or standards that a provider of public telecommunications networks or services may use to provide its services, provided that its measures are designed to achieve a legitimate public policy objective and are not prepared to adopt or is used in a way that creates unnecessary barriers to trade. In the event of any inconsistency between this Chapter and another Chapter, that Chapter shall prevail to the extent of the inconsistency.

Consultation

Cooperation

Objectives

Scope

Definitions

Immigration Measures

Each Party shall define in Annex 4 (Stages of Commitments of the Movement of Natural Persons) a plan containing its specific commitments for the entry and temporary stay in its territory of natural persons of the other Party covered by paragraph 1 of Article 10.2 (Scope). Each Party shall, upon request and within a reasonable period after receiving a complete application for an immigration formality from a natural person or natural person's representative of the other Party covered by paragraph 1 of Article 10.2 (Scope), notify the person physical or his. representative of: a) receiving the application;

Transparency

FRAMEWORK ON

Objectives

Scope

Definitions

In order to facilitate the work of the Free Trade Agreement Joint Committee or the subsidiary body established by it, each Party shall consult with the relevant bodies in its territory to designate professional services to negotiate mutual recognition arrangements. The Free Trade Agreement Joint Commission or subsidiary body established by it shall report on its progress, including on recommendations or initiatives to promote the mutual recognition of qualifications, licensing and qualification requirements, and on its work programme, within one year of the date of entry into force of the agreement and thereafter if necessary.

Review

INVESTMENT

Scope

Definitions

Any change in the form in which assets are invested does not affect their classification as investments. and. d) investor of a Party means a Party or a natural person of a Party or a legal person of a Party seeking to make17, making or having made an investment in the territory of the other Party; provided, however, that an individual who is a national of a Party and a non-Party shall be deemed to be a national only of the State of which he or she is a dominant and effective national. 17 For greater certainty, the parties understand that an investor "seeking to make" an investment refers to an investor of the other party who has taken active steps to make an investment.

National Treatment 18

The compensation referred to in subsection 1(c) includes interest at a commercially reasonable rate, accrued from the date of expropriation to the date of payment, unless such rate is prescribed by law24. If the investor requests that compensation be paid in a freely usable currency, the compensation referred to in subsection 1(c), including any accrued interest, is converted into the currency of payment at the market exchange rate that applies on the date of payment. and shall not be less than: a) the fair market value on the date of expropriation, converted into a freely usable currency at the market exchange rate prevailing on that date; plus.

Transfers

Nothing in this Chapter shall affect the rights and obligations of each Party as a member of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) under the Articles of the IMF Agreement, including the use of exchange actions, which are consistent with the Articles of the IMF Agreement, provided that a Party may not impose restrictions on capital transactions that are inconsistent with its specific obligations under this Chapter relating to such transactions, except pursuant to Article 18.4 (Measures to safeguard the balance of payments) of Chapter 18 (General Provisions and Exceptions) or at the request of the IMF. Each Party shall accord to investors of the other Party and to covered investments, in respect of measures it adopts or maintains in respect of losses suffered by investments in its territory as a result of armed conflict, civil strife or state of emergency, treatment no less favorable than that under similar circumstances it gives:. a) its own investors and their investments; and (b) investors in a non-party and their investments.

Subrogation

Where a Party or an agency of a Party has made a payment to an investor of that Party and assumed rights and claims of the investor, that investor shall not, unless authorized to act on behalf of the Party or the agency providing the make payment to act, to act. , enforce those rights and claims against the other Party. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraphs 1 and 2, the Party claiming the subrogation must, if the other Party so requests, consult with the other Party with a view to satisfying it about the subrogation.

Denial of Benefits

Neither Party shall, pursuant to any measure adopted after the date of entry into force of this Agreement, which falls within its Schedule of Non-Conforming Measures, require an investor of the other Party, by reason of its nationality, to investment at the time the measure takes effect.

Special Formalities

Work Programme

General Exceptions

An act or series of acts by a party cannot constitute an expropriation unless it interferes with a tangible or intangible property right or interest in a covered investment. The determination of whether an action or a series of actions by a party in a specific factual situation constitutes an indirect expropriation requires a case-by-case, fact-based investigation that takes into account, among other things: a) the economic effect of the government's action, although the fact that an action or series of actions by a party adversely affects the economic value of an investment does not, on its own, establish that an indirect expropriation has taken place .

Purpose

Definitions

Each Party affirms that it has ratified or acceded to the following agreements, as subsequently corrected, amended or modified: a) Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (1971) (Berne Convention); Subject to the fulfillment of the necessary internal requirements, each Party shall ratify or accede to the following agreements as soon as possible:

National Treatment

Transparency

Presumptive Validity

Trade Marks

The Parties agree to exchange information on the protection of non-traditional trademarks, including signs composed either in whole or in part of a shape, a color, a sound or a scent, with a view to including non-traditional characters in the first general review of the agreement. If protection of a term claimed to be a geographical indication is sought in a Party, that Party must publish information about the application before a decision is made to reject or accept the application.

Patents

Each Party may provide that subsection 1(a) shall not apply in relation to anything lawfully done for the sole purpose of:. a) electronic information identifying a work, performance or sound recording; the author of the work, the performer of the performance or the producer of the sound recording; or the owner of any right in the work, performance or sound recording; or. b) electronic information about the terms and conditions of the use of the work, performance or sound recording; or. c) any electronic numbers or codes representing such information. when any of these items are attached to a copy of the work, performance or sound recording or appear in connection with the communication or making available to the public of a work, performance or sound recording. Nothing in this paragraph obligates a party to require the owner of any right in the work, performance, or sound recording to attach rights management information to copies of the work, performance, or sound recording, or to cause rights management information to appear in connection with any dissemination of the work, the performance or sound recording to the public.

Enforcement

Each Party shall make it an offense to:. a) manufacture, assemble, modify, import, export, sell, lease or otherwise distribute any tangible or intangible device or system, knowing or having reason to know that the device or system is primarily for assisting in the decoding of an encrypted program-carrying satellite signal without the consent of the lawful distributor of such signal; And. With respect to the activities described in subparagraphs (a) and (b), a Party may provide civil remedies for anyone with an interest in the encrypted program-carrying satellite signal or its contents.

Border Measures

Each Party shall ensure that its competent authorities may take ex officio enforcement action against imported or exported goods suspected of being counterfeit trademark or pirated copyrighted goods without the need for a specific formal complaint. In accordance with their laws, regulations and policies, the Parties will cooperate to eliminate trade in goods that infringe intellectual property rights. a) notification of contact points for the enforcement of intellectual property rights;.

Other Cooperation

Each Party shall treat intentional, knowing or reckless importation or export37 of pirated copyrighted goods or of counterfeit trademarked goods as illegal activities subject to criminal penalties. Parties may exclude from the application of this Article the import or export of small quantities of goods considered to be of a non-commercial nature.

Consultations

COMPETITION POLICY

Objectives

Definitions

Exemptions

Purpose

Definitions

Customs Duties

Each Party shall establish or maintain legislation or regulations that protect the personal information of users of electronic commerce. When developing standards for the protection of personal data, each party must take into account the international standards and criteria of relevant international organizations.

Paperless Trading

Each Party shall, to the extent possible and in such manner as each Party deems appropriate, provide consumers using electronic commerce with protection at least equivalent to that afforded to consumers of other forms of commerce under its laws, regulations and policy.

Objectives

Scope

Cooperation between the Parties under this Chapter should contribute to achieving the objectives of the Agreement, and in particular the objectives of Article 16.1 (Objectives), through the identification and development of innovative cooperative activities capable of adding value to the relations of the Parties.

Forms of Cooperation

Costs of Cooperation

TRANSPARENCY

Definitions

Publication

At the request of the other Party, a Party shall promptly provide information and respond to questions regarding any current or proposed measures that the requesting Party considers may materially affect the operation of this Agreement or otherwise affect significantly in its interests under this Agreement, regardless of whether the requesting Party has been previously notified of this measure. With a view to administering in a consistent, impartial and reasonable manner its measures referred to in paragraph 1 of Article 17.3 (Publication), each Party shall ensure that in its administrative procedures in which such measures are applied to persons, special goods or services of the Other Party in specific cases it:. (a) give, wherever possible, to persons of the other party directly affected by a proceeding, reasonable notice, in accordance with its internal procedures, when a proceeding is commenced, including a description of the nature of the proceeding, a a statement of the legal authority under which the proceeding is commenced, and a general description of any matter in question.

Review

Any notice, request or information pursuant to this Article shall be forwarded to the other Party through the appropriate points of contact. No notification or information submitted pursuant to this Article shall affect the compliance of the action in question with this Agreement.

General Exceptions

Security Exceptions

Taxation

The tasks of the FTA Joint Commission are: a) review the implementation and operation of this Agreement; The FTA Joint Commission shall meet alternately in Australia and Malaysia, unless the Parties agree otherwise.

Communications

Objectives

Definitions

Scope

Subject to Article 20.5 (Choice of Forum), this Chapter is without prejudice to the right of a party to use dispute resolution procedures available under other agreements to which it is a party. This Chapter may be invoked with respect to measures affecting compliance with this Agreement taken by central, regional or local governments or authorities in the territory of a Party.

General Provisions

Choice of Forum

Consultations

The work of the arbitral tribunal is suspended during the appointment of the subsequent arbitrator. The arbitral tribunal's preliminary and final report must be drawn up without the parties present.

Implementation

The opinions expressed in the report of the arbitral tribunal by individual members are anonymous. As a guideline, the reasonable period determined by the president of the arbitral tribunal shall not exceed 15 months from the date of presentation of the final report of the arbitral tribunal to the parties.

Compliance Review

The arbitral tribunal shall communicate its assessment to the parties within 30 days of the date of its reconvenation. When the right to suspend concessions or other obligations has been exercised under this Article, if the Responding Party believes that:. a) the level of concessions or other obligations suspended by the complaining party is not equal to the level of the nullification and impairment; or. b) it has complied with the obligation in paragraph 1 of Article 20.14 (Implementation).

Expenses

The suspension of concessions or other obligations will be temporary and will only be applied until the obligation in paragraph 1 of Article 20.14 (Implementation) has been fulfilled or a mutually satisfactory solution has been reached. Where the arbitral tribunal reconvenes in terms of subparagraph 10(b), paragraphs 3 to 5 of Article 20.15 (Compliance Review) apply.

Contact Points

Language

The arbitral tribunal must submit its final report to the parties within 180 days from the date of its establishment. The interim report and final report of the arbitral tribunal must be drawn up without the presence of the parties.

FINAL PROVISIONS

Confidentiality

Amendments

General Review

Referensi

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