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13.

The provisions of this article shall not apply to pharmaceutical preparations, nor to other preparations containing substances in List A or List B that are compounded in such a way that such substances cannot be easily used or recovered by readily applicable means in sufficient quantity to permit significant illicit processing or manufacture of a narcotic drug or a psychotropic substance.

Tentative lists

(further definition of substances concerning salts, etc. to be made)

List A

List B

Ephedrine

Ergometrine

Ergotamine

Lysergic acid

Phenyl-2-propanone

Pseudo-ephedrine

Article 9

Acetic anhydride Acetone

Anthranilic acid

Ethyl ether

Phenylacetic acid Piperidine

MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT

The Parties shall co-operate to suppress trade in materials and equipment for illicit manufacture of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances.

1.

Article 10

MEASURES TO ERADICATE NARCOTIC PLANTS CULTIVATED

ILLICITLY AND TO ELIMINATE ILLICIT DEMAND FOR DRUGS

Each Party shall take appropriate measures to prevent the illicit cultivation of and to eradicate plants containing psychotropic or narcotic substances, such as opium poppy, coca bush and cannabis plants, cultivated illicitly in its territory. Such measures shall not be less stringent than the requirements applicable to the cultivation of narcotic plants under the provisions of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961, and that Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol amending the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961. The measures adopted shall respect fundamental human rights and shall take due account of traditional domestic uses of such plants as well as the protection of the environment.

2.

The Parties may co-operate to increase the effectiveness of eradication efforts. Such co-operation may, inter alia, include support, when appropriate, for integrated rural development leading to economically viable. alternatives to cultivation. Factors such as access to markets, the availability of resources and prevailing socio-economic conditions should be taken into account before such rural development programmes are implemented. Parties may agree on any other appropriate measures of co-operation. They shall also facilitate the exchange of scientific and technical information and

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