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II SÉRIE-A — NÚMERO 22

conventional armaments and equipment in service with its conventional armed forces stationed on the territory of the host State Party.

3 — The escort team shall be placed under the responsibility of the inspected State Party:

A) In the case of inspection sites at which only a stationing State Party's conventional armaments and equipment limited by the Treaty are present and are under this State Party's command, the escort team shall be placed under the responsibility of a representative of the stationing State Party for the duration of the inspection within that inspection site where the stationing State Party's conventional armaments and equipment limited by the Treaty are located; and

B) In the case of inspection sites containing conventional armaments and equipment limited by the Treaty of both the host State Party and the stationing State Party, the escort team shall be composed of representatives from both States Parties when conventional armaments and equipment limited by the Treaty of the stationing State Party are actually inspected. During the inspection within that inspection site, the host State Party shall exercise the rights and obligations of the inspected State Party with the exception of those rights and obligations related to the inspection of the conventional armaments and equipment limited by the Treaty of the stationing State Party, which shall be exercised by this stationing State Party.

4 — If an inspection team requests access to a structure or premises utilised by another State Party by agreement with the inspected State Party, such other State Party shall, in cooperation with the inspected State Party and to the extent consistent with the agreement on utilisation, exercise the rights and obligations set forth in this Protocol with respect to inspections involving equipment or material of the State Party utilising the structure or premises.

5 — Structures or premises utilised by another State Party by agreement with the inspected State Party shall be subject to inspection only when that other State Party's representative is on the escort team.

6 — Inspection teams and sub-teams shall be under the control and responsibility of the inspecting State Party.

7 — No more than one inspection team conducting an inspection pursuant to section vn or vm of this Protocol may be present at the same time at any one inspection site.

8 — Subject to the other provisions of this Protocol, the inspecting State Party shall decide for how long each inspection team will stay on the territory of the State Party where an inspection is to be carried out, and at how many and at which inspection sites it will conduct inspections during the in-country period.

9 — Travel expenses of an inspection team to the point of entry/exit prior to conducting an inspection and from the point of entry/exit after completion of the last inspection shall be borne by the inspecting State Party.

10 — Each State Party shall be obliged to receive a number of inspections pursuant to section vn or vm of this Protocol not to exceed its passive declared site inspection quota for each specified time period: a 120-day baseline validation period, a three-year reduction period, a 120-day residual level validation period and a residual period for the duration of the Treaty. The passive declared site inspection quota shall be determined for each specified time period as a percentage of that State Party's objects of verification, excluding reduction sites and certification sites, located within the area of application of the Treaty:

A) During the first 120 days after entry into force of the Treaty, the passive declared site inspection quota shall be equal to 20% a State Party's objects of verification notified pursuant to section v of the Protocol on Information Exchange;

B) During each year of the reduction period, after completion of the initial 120-day period, the passive declared site inspection quota shall be equal to 10% of a State Party's objects of verification notified pursuant to section v of the Protocol on Information Exchange;

Q During the first 120 days after completion of the three-year reduction period, the passive declared site inspection quota shall be equal to 20 % of a State Party's objects of verification notified pursuant to section v of the Protocol on Information Exchange; and

D) Each year, commencing after completion of the 120-day residual level validation period, for the duration of the Treaty, the passive declared site inspection quota shall be equal to 15 % of a State Party's objects of verification notified pursuant to section v of the Protocol on Information Exchange.

11 — Each State Party with territory within the area of application shall be obliged to accept challenge inspections as follows:

A) During the baseline validation period, during each year of the reduction period and during the residual level validation period, up to 15 % of the number of inspections of declared sites which that State Party is obliged to receive on its territory of its own objects of verification as well as of objects of verification belonging to stationing States Parties; and

B) During each year of the residual period, up to 23 °7o of the number of inspections of declared sites which that State Party is obliged to receive on its territory of its own cfoyexxs

12 — Notwithstanding any other limitations in this section, each State Party shall be obliged to accept a minimum of one inspection each year of its objects of verification pursuant to section vn of this Protocol, and each State Party with territory within the asw. of application shall be obliged to accept a minimum of one inspection each year within a specified area pursuant to section vm os this Protocol.

13 — Inspection pursuant to section vn of this Protocol of one object of verification at an inspection site