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CONSTITUTION
ARTICLES XIV.3(6)-XIV.7
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Article XIV
Conventions and agreements
I.
The Conference may, by a two-thirds majority of the votes cast and in conformity with rules adopted by the Conference, approve and submit to Member Nations conventions and agreements concerning questions relating to food and agriculture.
2. The Council, under rules to be adopted by the Conference, may, by a vote concurred in by at least two thirds of the membership of the Council, approve and submit to Member Nations:
(a) agreements concerning questions relating to food and agriculture which are of particular interest to Member Nations of geographical areas specified in such agreements and are designed to apply only to such areas;
(b) supplementary conventions or agreements designed to implement any convention or agreement which has come into force under paragraphs 1 or 2 (a).
3.
Conventions, agreements, and supplementary conventions and agreements shall:
(a) be submitted to the Conference or Council through the Direc- tor-General on behalf of a technical meeting or conference com- prising Member Nations, which has assisted in drafting the conven- tion or agreement and has suggested that it be submitted to Member Nations concerned for acceptance;
(b) contain provisions concerning the Member Nations of the Organi- zation, and such nonmember States as are members of the United Nations, any of its specialized agencies or the International Atomic Energy Agency which may become parties thereto and the number of acceptances by Member Nations necessary to bring such convention, agreement, supplementary convention or agreement into force, and thus ensure that it will constitute a real contribution to the achieve- ment of its objectives. In the case of conventions, agreements, sup- plementary conventions and agreements establishing commissions or committees, participation by nonmember States of the Organiza-
tion that are members of the United Nations, any of its specialized agencies or the International Atomic Energy Agency shall in addi- tion be subject to prior approval by at least two thirds of the mem- bership of such commissions or committees;
(c) not entail any financial obligations for Member Nations not parties to it other than their contributions to the Organization provided for in Article XVIII, paragraph 2 of this Constitution.
4.
Any convention, agreement, supplementary convention or agree- ment approved by the Conference or Council for submission to Member Nations shall come into force for each contracting party as the convention, agreement, supplementary convention or agreement may prescribe.
5. As regards an Associate Member, conventions, agreements, supple- mentary conventions and agreements shall be submitted to the authority having responsibility for the international relations of the Associate Member.
6.
The Conference shall make rules laying down the procedure to be followed to secure proper consultation with governments and adequate technical preparations prior to consideration by the Conference or the Council of proposed conventions, agreements, supplementary conven- tions and agreements.
7. Two copies in the authentic language or languages of any conven- tion, agreement, supplementary convention or agreement approved by the Conference or the Council shall be certified by the Chairman of the Conference or of the Council respectively and by the Director-General. One of these copies shall be deposited in the archives of the Organization. The other copy shall be transmitted to the Secretary-General of the United Nations for registration once the convention, agreement, supplementary convention or agreement has come into force as a result of action taken under this Article. In addition, the Director-General shall certify copies of those conventions, agreements, supplementary conventions or agreements and transmit one copy to each Member Nation of the Organization and to such nonmember States as may become parties to the conventions. agreements, supplementary conventions or agreements.