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APPENDIX A

INTERGOVERNMENTAL STUDY GROUP ON GERMANY

Agreement concerning Industrial Controls

The High Commissioners of France, the United Kingdom and the United States of America, duly authorised thereto by their respective Governments, hereby conclude on behalf of those Governments the following agreement concerning industrial controls in the French, United Kingdom, and United States Areas of Occupation in Germany.

ARTICLE I

1. The provisions of this Agreement shall be reviewed on the request of any two of the Governments parties to the Agreement and in any event not later than 31st December, 1951.

2. Except as may be subsequently agreed among the Governments parties to this Agreement, the prohibitions laid down in this Agreement shall remain in force until the peace settlement.

3. Except as may be subsequently agreed among the Governments parties to this Agreement, the limitations laid down in this Agreement shall remain in force until 1st January, 1953, or until the peace settlement, whichever is the earlier, and thereafter as may be agreed.

ARTICLE II

Except with the authorisation of the Allied High Commission the manufacture, production, installation, import, export, transport, storage, possession, ownership or use of any of the following articles or products is prohibited:

(a) items listed in Annex A to this Agreement;

(b) primary magnesium.

ARTICLE III

Materials, products, facilities and equipment relating to atomic energy shall continue to be subject to Allied High Commission legislation.

ARTICLE IV

1. The manufacture of electronic valves shall be unrestricted in respect of types included in a list of permitted types as established, and modified as required, by the Allied High Commission. These permitted types shall not exceed 50 watts anode dissipation, or a frequency of 250 megacycles per second.

2. The manufacture of electronic valves included in the categories listed in Annex B to this Agreement is prohibited. This Annex is subject to review and revision by the Allied High Commission.

3. The manufacture of all other categories or specific types of electronic valves is prohibited except under licence from the Allied High Commission.

ARTICLE V

1. Control shall be maintained over capacity in the following industries: (a) Steel.

(b) Electric arc and high frequency furnace steel.

(c) Shipbuilding.

(d) Synthetic rubber.

(e) Synthetic petrol, oil and lubricants, produced directly or indirectly from

coal or brown coal.

(f) Ball and roller bearings except equipment only capable of producing ngg7

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