Distribution of Costs of Inspections Between or Among States Parties, Worked out in Compliance with Article XVI, Paragraph 2 of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe of 19 November 1990 (Referred to as the Treaty)

18 December 1991
  1. The costs of all types of inspections arising from the obligations set out in the Protocol on Inspection from the arrival of an inspection team at­the point of entry/exit until its departure form the point of entry / exit after completion of its last inspection shall be met by the inspected State Party with the exceptions provided for in paragraph 2 and subject to the provisions in paragraph 4.

  2. The inspecting State Party shall meet the following costs:

    1. The costs of servicing and fuel for the transportation means of the inspecting State Party at the point of entry/exit. Such costs shall be charged by the inspected State Party at no more than the prevailing commercial rate.

    2. The costs associated with the use of its own land vehicles on the territory of the inspected State Party at no more than the prevailing commercial rate.

    3. Unless bilaterally agreed otherwise, the additional costs of services provided to the inspecting State Party upon its request that are not required from the inspected State Party by the Treaty or by the annex to this document. Such costs shall be paid in the currency that is normally paid for such services on the territory of the inspected State Party.

  3. Four months after entry into force of the Treaty, and at 12 monthly intervals thereafter, each inspected State Party shall transmit in accordance with Article of the Treaty an account to each inspecting State Party that has conducted inspections on its territory, clearly itemizing the costs incurred by inspecting States Parties' inspection teams under each of the headings contained in subparagraphs 2A and 2B. Any State Party that, following the exchange of accounts, is in debt to any other State Party, shall pay its debt to that State Party within 60 days­ unless the debt is sell under discussion­ in a convertible currency at the rate prevailing on the date of exchange of accounts.

  4. An inspected State Party shall receive payments for costs incurred for inspection of reduction, pursuant to paragraphs 1 to 10 of Section X of the Protocol on Inspection, whenever the number of days during which inspection teams were present at reduction sites on the territory of the of the inspected State Party during a reduction phase­as specified in Article VIII, paragraph 4 of the Treaty­ exceeds the threshold derived from the following formula: 7 times the total number of calendar reporting periods notified for each reduction site on the territory of the inspected State Party during that reduction phase.

    These payments shall be paid for each inspector day above the foregoing threshold in which inspection teams were present at reduction sites on the territory of the inspected State Party during a reduction phase conducting inspections pursuant to paragraphs 1 to 10 of section X of the Inspection Protocol.

    These payments shall be calculated at a rate equivalent to 50 ECU in a convertible currency for each such inspector day.

    These charges calculated as determined above shall be shared among all inspecting States Parties conducting inspections of reduction on the territory of the inspected State Party in proportion to the total number of inspector days that each inspecting State Party's inspection teams were present on reduction sites of the territory of the inspected State Party conducting inspections pursuant to paragraphs 1 to 10 of section X of the Inspection Protocol. Each reduction phase­ as specified in Article VIII paragraph 4 of the Treaty­ shall be treated as a discrete period for purposes of calculating and billing in accordance with the provisions of this paragraph.

  5. States Parties shall have the right to raise before the Joint Consultative Group any ambiguities and differences of interpretation that may become apparent in the way the provisions of this document are implemented.

ANNEX

The inspected State Party shall provide or arrange for, inter alia:

  1. Adequate accommodation in military or civilian facilities, appropriate to the circumstances.

  2. Three meals a day, one of which should be hot;

  3. Adequate work space, appropriate to the circumstances;

  4. All emergency assistance including emergency medical care.
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