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188 United Nations - Treaty Series 1964
feasible, the gas and water mains shall be laid in the verge of the Schinveld-Koningst
bosch road.
3. The lines may be maintained and repaired by the Netherlands owners.
After completion of the works, the construction areas shall be restored to their original
condition. If any alteration is caused in the Schinveld-Koningsbosch road or in
any road or watercourse which crosses it, the costs of such relocation of the lines as
may thereby be rendered necessary shall be borne by the Netherlands owners.
4. The lines may be used without the consent of the authorities responsible for
supervision under German law only for the purpose of through transmission, but not
for the supply of services within the Federal Republic of Germany.
5. The Netherlands authorities and enterprises shall be entitled to import the
tools and materials required for the installation, maintenance and repair of the lines
mentioned in paragraph I into the Federal Republic of Germany and, if the occasion
arises, to re-export them to the Netherlands free of import and export prohibitions and
restrictions and free of import and export duties and others charges. The transmission
of electricity, gas and water through the lines in question shall not be subject to
the turnover tax or the transport tax or to any similar taxes which may be imposed in
the future.
Article 55
1. This Treaty shall be without prejudice to existing rights in the areas referred
to in articles 4 to 6 under mining concessions granted in the past. The Contracting
Parties are prepared, if necessary, to enter into special arrangements permitting the
fields in question to be worked from the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany
or from the territory of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
2. The Federal Republic of Germany declares its willingness, as soon as a Netherlands
mining company shall have acquired the right to exploit the Hillensberg I, II,
III and Wehr I, II, III coal-fields, to enter into a special arrangement permitting
those coal-fields to be worked from the territory of the Kingdom of the Netherlands,
along similar lines to the arrangements entered into in earlier Agreements between
the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Federal Republic of Germany concerning
coal-fields situated in the frontier area.
CHAPTER 4
BOUNDARY WATERS
Article 56
1. Boundary waters within the meaning of this chapter are surface waters,
including their banks, which cross or, in some of their sections, form the frontier
between the Netherlands and Germany.
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