ARTICLE 7
Fair and Equal Opportunities
(1) Each Party shall allow a fair and equal opportunity for the designated airline of the other Party to compete in the international air transportation between their territories.
(2) In order not to make any harm to the designated airline of the other Party that also operates on the same line or on the part of this line, while operating on designated routes, airlines of both Parties have to take into consideration interests of the designated airline of the other Party.
(3) Neither party shall unilaterally limit the rights contained in this Agreement and Annex as regards the volume of traffic, frequency or
regularity of service, or the aircraft type or types operated by the designated airlines of the other Party, provided that they are consistent with the Annex, and except as may be required for customs, technical, operational or environmental reasons under uniform conditions consistent Article 15 of the Chicago Convention.
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(4) Neither Party shall impose on the other Party's designated airlines a first refusal requirement, uplift ratio, no objection fee, or any other requirement with respect to the capacity, frequency of traffic which would be indonsistent with the purposes of this Agreement.
(5) Each Party shall require the filing of seasonal schedules of the designated airlines for the purposes of information and coordination on a non-discriminatory basis taking into account the provisions included in paragraph (2) above of this Article. Each Party has the right to return to the given airline such documents for modifications endeavouring
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