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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.