11 DE MARÇO DE 1992

426-(41)

shall count as one inspection against the passive declared site inspection quota of that State Party whose object of verification is inspected.

14 — The proportion of inspections pursuant to section vn of this Protocol on the territory of a host State Party within a specified time period used to inspect objects of verification belonging to a stationing State Party shall be no greater than the proportion which that stationing State Party's objects of verification constitute of the total number of objects of verification located on the territory of that host State Party.

15 — The number of inspections pursuant to section Vn of this Protocol of objects of verification within a specified time period on any State Party's territory shall be calculated as a percentage of the total number of objects of verification present on that State Party's territory.

16 — Inspection pursuant to section vm of this Protocol within one specified area shall count as one inspection against the passive challenge inspection quota and one inspection against the passive declared site inspection quota of the State Party on whose territory the inspection is conducted.

17 — Unless otherwise agreed between the escort team and the inspection team, an inspection team's in-country period shall, up to a total of 10 days, not exceed the total number of hours calculated according to the following formula:

A) 48 hours for the first inspection of an object of verification or within a specified area; plus

B) 36 hours for each sequential inspection of an object of verification or within a specified area.

18 — Subject to the limitations in paragraph 17 of this section, an inspection team conducting an inspection pursuant to section vn or vm of this Protocol shall spend no more than 48 hours at a declared site and no more than 24 hours in inspection within a specified area.

19 — The inspected State Party shall ensure that the inspection team travels to a sequential inspection site by the most expeditious means available. If the time between completion of one inspection and arrival of the inspection team at a sequential inspectiorfsite exceeds nine hours, or if the time between completion of the last inspection conducted by an inspection team on the territory of the State Party where" an inspection is carried out and the arrival of that inspection team at the point of entry/exit exceeds nine hours, such excess time shall not count against that inspection team's in-country period.

20 — Each State Party shall be obliged to accept on its territory within the area of application simultaneously no more than either two inspection teams conducting inspections pursuant to sections vn and vm of this Protocol or a number of inspection teams conducting inspections pursuant to sections vn and vm of this Protocol equal to 2 % of the total number of objects of verification that are to be inspected during a specified time period on the territory of that State Party, whichever number is greater.

21 — Each State Party shall be obliged to accept simultaneously no more than either two inspection teams conducting inspections of its conventional armed forces pursuant to section vn or vm of this Protocol

or a number of inspection teams conducting inspections of its conventional armed forces pursuant to section vn or vm of this Protocol equal to 2 °Jo of the total number of its objects of verification that are to be inspected during a specified time period, whichever number is greater.

22 — Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraphs 20 and 21 of this section, each State Party with military districts specified in articles iv and v of the Treaty shall be obliged to accept on its territory within the area of application simultaneously no more than two inspection teams conducting inspections pursuant to sections vu and vm of this Protocol within any one of those military districts.

23 — No State Party shall be obliged to accept inspections pursuant to sections vn and vm of this Protocol representing more than 50 % of its passive declared site inspection quota in a calendar year from the same State Party.

24 — Each State Party shall have the right to conduct inspections within the area of application on the territory of other States Parties. However, no State Party shall conduct more than five inspections annually pursuant to sections vn and vm of this Protocol of another State Party belonging to the same group of States Parties. Any such inspections shall count against the passive declared site inspection quota of the State Party being inspected. It shall otherwise be the responsibility solely of each group of States Parties to determine the allocation of inspections for each State Party within its group of States Parties. Each State Party shall notify to all other States Parties its active inspection quota:

A) For the baseline validation period, no later than 120 days after signature of the Treaty; • B) For the first year of the reduction period, no later than 60 days after entry into force of the Treaty; and

C) For each subsequent year of the reduction period, for the residual level validation period and for each year of the residual period, no later than the 15th day of January preceding each such specified time period.

SECTION III Pre-inspection requirements

1 — Inspections conducted pursuant to the Treaty shall be carried out by inspectors designated in accordance with paragraphs 3 to 7 of this section.

2 — Inspectors shall be nationals of the inspecting State Party or other States Parties.

3 — Within 90 days after signature of the Treaty, each State Party shall provide to all other States Parties a list of its proposed inspectors and a list of its proposed transport crew members, contaning the full names of inspectors and transport crew members, their gender, date of birth, place of birth and passport number. No list of proposed inspectors provided by a State Party shall contain at any time more than 400 individuals, and no list of proposed transport crew members provided by a State Party shall contain at any time more than 600 individuals.

4 — Each State Party shall review the lists of inspectors and transport crew members provided to it by