11 DE MARÇO DE 1992

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than designated permanent storage sites or sites subordinate to organisations designed and structured for internal security purposes, holding conventional armaments and equipment limited by the Treaty without respect to organisational or operational status. Conventional armaments and equipment limited by the Treaty contained in such sites shall constitute a portion of the permitted holdings counted in active units pursuant to article iv of the Treaty;

N) The term «declared site» means a facility or precisely delineated geographic location which contains one or more objects of verification. A declared site shall consist of all territory within its man-made or natural outer boundary or boundaries as well as associated territory comprising firing ranges, training areas, maintenance and storage areas, helicopter airfields and railroad loading facilities at which battle tanks, armoured combat vehicles, artillery, combat helicopters, combat aircraft, reclassified combat-capable trainer aircraft, armoured personnel carrier look-alikes, armoured infantry fighting vehicle look-alikes or armoured vehicle launched bridges are permanently or routinely present;

O) The term «specified area» means an area anywhere on the territory of a State Party within the area of application other than a site inspected pursuant to section vu, ix or x of this Protocol within which a challenge inspection is conducted pursuant to section vin of this Protocol. A specified area shall not exceed 65 square kilometres. No straight line between any two points in that area shall exceed 16 kilometres;

P) The term «sensitive point» means any equipment, structure or location which has been designated to be sensitive by the inspected State Party or the State Party exercising the rights and obligations of the inspected State Party through the escort team and to which access or overflight may be delayed, limited or refused;

Q) The term «point of entry/exit» means a point designated by a State Party on whose territory an inspection is to be carried out, through which inspection teams and transport crews arrive on the territory of that State Party and through which they depart from the territory of that State Party;

R) The term «in-country period» means the total time spent continuously on the territory of the State Party where an inspection is carried out by an inspection team for inspections pursuant to sections vu and vin of this Protocol from arrival of the inspection team at the point of entry/exit until the return of the inspection team to a point of entry/exit after completion of that inspection team's last inspection;

S) The term «baseline validation period» means, for the purpose of calculating inspection quotas, the specified time period consisting of the first 120 days following entry into force of the Treaty;

7) The term «réduction period» means, for the purpose of calculating inspection quotas, the specified time period consisting of the three years following the 120-day baseline validation period;

U) The term «residual level validation period» means, for the purpose of calculating inspection quotas, the specified time period consisting of the 120 days following the three-year reduction period;

V) The term «residual period» means, for the purpose of calculating inspection quotas, the specified time period following the 120-day residual level validation period for the duration of the Treaty;

W) The term «passive declared site inspection quota» means the total number of inspections of objects of verification pursuant to section vu of this Protocol that each State Party shall be obliged to receive within a specified time period at inspection sites where its objects of verification are located;

X) The term «passive challenge inspection quota» means the maximum number of challenge inspections within specified areas pursuant to section vin of this Protocol that each State Party with territory within the area of application shall be obliged to receive within a specified time period;

Y) The term «active inspection quota» means the total number of inspections pursuant to sections vu and vm of this Protocol that each State Party shall be entitled to conduct within a specified time period;

Z) The term «certification site» means a clearly designated location where the certification of recategorised multi-purpose attack helicopters and reclassified combat-capable trainer aircraft in accordance with the Protocol on Helicopter Recategorisation and the Protocol on Aircraft Reclassification takes place; AA) The term «calendar reporting period» means a period of time defined in days during which the intended reduction of the planned number of items of conventional armaments and equipment limited by the Treaty in accordance with article vm of the Treaty is to be carried out.

SECTION II General obligations

1 — For the purpose of ensuring verification of compliance with the provisions of the Treaty, each State Party shall facilitate inspections pursuant to this Protocol.

2 — In the case of conventional armaments and equipment in service with the conventional armed forces of a State Party stationed in the area of application outside national territory, the host State Party and the stationing State Party shall, in fulfillment of their respective responsibilities, cooperatively ensure compliance with the relevant provisions of this Protocol. The stationing State Party shall be fully responsible for compliance with the Treaty obligations in respect of its