CO129-486 - Public Offices - 1924 — Page 196

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Certificate system (strengthened in certain resposta} for ensuring that the report to any country would bo limited in accordance with its requirements for medical and scientific purposes.

Every country would

be allowed to rerigo from year to year, if necessary, its estimate of the amount required by it for its

It was thought that the legitimate consumption. publicity which would be afforded by the prblication pf periodical reports on the working of the agreement

would be sufficient to prevent any country asking for supplies greatly in excess of its legitimate needs. Correspondence provisions were inserted in the úraft to limit the production of the raw material for the manufacture of the drug and its export and distriby-

The scheme proposed tion to the manufacturing countries.

to limit the production of the raw material for export for the puroscs of such manufacture to the average amount required to manufacture the amual quantity of the drug

The amount would be allocated fixed by the agreement. among the countries producing the raw material on the

It would be capable basis of their present production.

of revision frin year to year in accordance with any alterations in the amount of the manufactured drug required for legitimate purposes.

Provision would also

be made for making any necessary adjustments in the amount in view of the fact that the drug content of the

raw material might be a variable quantity.

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