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tentative programme:-
(a) The advisability of uniform national laws and
regulations to control the production, manufacture and
distribution of opium, ita derivatives and preparations;
(b) The advisability of restricting the number of
ports through which opium may be shipped by opium-producing
countries;
(c) The means to be taken to prevent at the port of
departure the shipment of opium, its derivatives and
preparations, to countries that, prohibit or wish to
prohibit or control their entry;
(d) The advisability of reciprocal notification of the
amount of opium, ita derivatives and preparations, shipped
from one country to another;
(e) Regulation by the Universal Postal Union of the
transmission of opium, its derivatives and preparations,
through the mails;
(f) The restriction or control of the cultivation of
the poppy so that the production of opium will not be undertaken by countries which at present do not produce it, to compensate for the reduction being made in British India and China;
(g) The application of the pharmacy laws of the
Governments concerned to their subjects in the consular
districts, concessions and settlements in China;
(h)
Subsequently corrected to read: effective national laws
and regulations.