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international

practice.

CONFIDENTIAL

Article 5 (2)

of the model agreement

appears as Article 14(3) of the initialled text.

ARTICLE 6

12.

unchanged.

The article has been re-arranged; the substance is

ARTICLE I

13.

The

provisions of this article are contained in

Article 15 of the model agreement. We have moved the article

forward 30 that all the exceptions to surrender are grouped

together :

rald. ໂມ 19 an expanded version of Article 15(b) to make it

clear that the delay in question was that of the

prosecuting authorities;

Para.

(c) has

replaced Article 15(c) of the model which the

Netherlands considered to be

bilateral agreement.

The

inappropriate for а

paragraph will permit the

Parties to give precedence to their obligations under

multilateral

conventions.

CONFIDENTIAL

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