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other States Parties and, within 30 days after receipt of each list, shall provide notification to the State Party providing that list of any individual whose name it wishes to be deleted from that list.

5 — Subject to paragraph 7 of this section, inspectors and transport crew members for whom deletion has not been requested within the time interval specified in paragraph 4 of this section shall be considered as accepted for the purposes of issuing visas and any other documents in accordance with paragraph 8 of this section.

6 — Each State Party shall have the right to amend its lists within one month after entry into force of the Treaty. Thereafter, each State Party may once every six months propose additions to or deletions from its lists of inspectors and transport crew members, provided that such amended lists do not exceed the numbers specified in paragraph 3 of this section. Proposed additions shall be reviewed in accordance with paragraphs 4 and 5 of this section.

7 — A State Party may request, without right of refusal, deletion of any individual it wishes from lists of inspectors and transport crew members provided by any other State Party.

8 — The State Party on whose territory an inspection is conducted shall provide to the inspectors and transport crew members accepted in accordance with paragraph 5 of this section visas and any other documents as required to ensure that these inspectors and transport crew members may enter and remain in the territory of that State Party for the purpose of carrying out inspection activities in accordance with the provisions of this Protocol. Such visas and any other necessary documents shall be provided either:

A) Within 30 days after the acceptance of the lists or subsequent change in such lists, in which case the visa shall be valid for a period of no less than 24 months; or

B) Within one hour after the arrival of the inspection team and transport crew members at the point of entry/exit, in which case the visa shall be valid for the duration of their inspection activities.

9 — Within 90 days after signature of the Treaty, each State Party shall provide notification to all other States Parties of the standing diplomatic clearance number for the transportation means of that State Party transporting inspectors and equipment necessary for an inspection into and out of the territory of the State Party in which such an inspection is conducted. Routings to and from the designated point(s) of entry/exit shall be along established international airways or other routes that are agreed upon by the States Parties concerned as the basis for such diplomatic clearance. Inspectors may use commercial flights for travel to those points of entry/exit that are served by airlines. The provisions of this paragraph relating to diplomatic clearance numbers shall not apply to such flights.

10 — Each State Party shall indicate in the notification provided pursuant to section v of the Protocol on Information Exchange a point or points of entry/exit in respect of each declared site with its objects of verification. Such points of entry/exit may be ground border crossing points, airports or seaports which must have

the capacity to receive the transportation means of the inspecting State Party. At least one airport shall be notified as a point of entry/exit associated with each declared site. The location of any point of entry/exit notified as associated with a declared site shall be such as to allow access to that declared site within the time specified in section vh, paragraph 8, of this Protocol.

11 — Each State Party shall have the right to change the point or points of entry/exit to its territory by notifying all other States Parties no less than 90 days before such a change becomes effective.

12 — Within 90 days after signature of the Treaty, each State Party shall provide notification to all other States Parties of the official language or languages of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe to be used by inspection teams conducting inspections of its conventional armed forces.

SECTION IV Notification of intent to inspect

1 — The inspecting State Party shall notify the inspected State Party of its intention to carry out an inspection provided for in article xiv of the Treaty. In the case of inspection of stationed conventional armed forces, the inspecting State Party shall simultaneously notify the host and stationing States Parties. In the case of inspection of certification or reduction procedures carried out by a stationing State Party, the inspecting State Party shall simultaneously notify the host and stationing States Parties.

2 — For inspections conducted pursuant to sections vii and viii of this Protocol, such notifications shall be maded in accordance with article xvii of the Treaty no less than 36 hours in advance of the estimated time of arrival of the inspection team at the point of entry/exit on the territory of the State Party where an inspection is to be carried out and shall include:

A) The point of entry/exit to be used;

B) The estimated time of arrival at the point of entry/exit;

Q The means of arrival at the point of entry/exit;

D) A statement of whether the first inspection shall be conducted pursuant to section vn or vin of this Protocol arid whether the inspection will be conducted on foot, by crosscountry vehicle, by helicopter or by any combination of these;

£) The time interval between the arrival at the point of entry/exit and the designation of the first inspection site;

F) The language to be used by the inspection team, wich shall be a language designated in accordance with section in, paragraph 12, of this Protocol;

G) The language to be used for the inspection report prepared in accordance with section XII of this Protocol;

H) The full names of inspectors and transport crew members, their gender, date of birth, place of birth and passport number; and

I) The likely number of sequential inspections.

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3 — For inspections conducted pursuant to sections IX and x of this Protocol, such notifications shall