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authorities of the Contracting Parties, such consultation to begin within sixty
days from the date of the request. Any modification of the Annex agreed to
by the said aeronautical authorities shall come into force as soon as it has been
confirmed by an exchange of diplomatic notes.
(e) Either Contracting Party may at any time give notice to the other of
its desire to terminate the present Agreement. Such notice shall be sent
simultaneously to the International Civil Aviation Organization. If such notice
is given, the present Agreement shall terminate six months after the date of
receipt of the notice by the other Contracting Party, unless the notice is withdrawn
by agreement before expiry of this period. In the absence of acknowledgment
of receipt by the other Contracting Party, notice shall be deemed to
have been received fourteen days after the receipt of the notice by the International
Civil Aviation Organization.
Article 12
For the purposes of the present Agreement and its Annex and unless
otherwise provided :
(a) the term " aeronautical authority " shall mean:
in the case of Luxembourg,
the " Minist~re des transports, A6ronautique civile " or any person or
agency authorized to perform the functions presently exercised by the said
ministry;
in the case of Switzerland,
the " D~partement f~d~ral des postes et des chemins de fer, Office de l'air
or any person or agency authorized to perform the functions presently exercised
by the said department;
(b) the term " designated airline " shall mean the air transport enterprise
which the aeronautical authority of one of the Contracting Parties has notified
in writing to the aeronautical authority of the other Contracting Party as the
airline designated by it, in accordance with Articles 1 and 2 of the present
Agreement, to operate the air services specified in such notification;
(c) the term " territory " shall have the meaning assigned to it by Article 2
of the Convention on International Civil Aviation signed at Chicago on 7 December
1944;
(d) the definitions given in paragraphs (a), (b) and (d) of Article 96 of the
Convention on International Civil Aviation signed at Chicago on 7 December
1944 shall apply to the present Agreement.
DONE at Bern on 9 April 1951 in two copies in the French language.
For the Government For the Swiss Federal
of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg: Council :
(Signed) Jean STURM (Signed) Max PETITPIERRE
N ° 3601