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conducting the certification shall provide to all other States Parties notification of:

A) The site at which the certification is to take place, including geographic coordinates;

B) The scheduled dates of the certification process;

C) The estimated number and type, model or version of helicopters or aircraft to be certified;

D) The manufacturer's serial number for each helicopter or aircraft;

E) The unit or location to which the helicopters or aircraft were previously assigned;

F) The unit or location to which the certified helicopters or aircraft will be assigned in the future;

G) The point of entry/exit to be used by an inspection team; and

H) The date and time by which an inspection team shall arrive at the point of entry/exit in order to inspect the certification.

4 — Inspectors shall have the right to enter and inspect visually the helicopter or aircraft cockpit and interior to include checking the manufacturer's serial number, without right of refusal on the part of the State Party conducting the certification.

5 — If requested by the inspection team, the escort team shall remove, without right of refusal, any access panels covering the position from which components and wiring were removed in accordance with the provisions of the Protocol on Helicopter Recategorisation or the Protocol on Aircraft Reclassification.

6 — Inspectors shall have the right to request and observe, with the right of refusal on the part of the State Party conducting the certification, the activation of any weapon system component in multi-purpose attack helicopters being certified or declared to have been recategorised.

7 — At the conclusion of each inspection of certification, the inspection team shall complete an inspection report in accordance with the provisions of section xn of this Protocol.

8 — Upon completion of an inspection at a certification site, the inspection team shall have the right to depart the territory of the inspected State Party or to conduct a sequential inspection at another certification site or at a reduction site if the appropriate notification has been provided by the inspection team in accordance with section iv, paragraph 3, of this Protocol. The inspection team shall notify the escort team of its intended departure from the certification site and, if appropriate, of its intention to proceed to another certification site or to a reduction site at least 24 hours before the intended departure time.

9 — Within seven days after completion of the certification, the State Party responsible for the certification shall notify all other States Parties of the completion of the certification. Such notification shall specify the number, types, models or versions and manufacturer's serial numbers of certified helicopters or aircraft, the certification site involved, the actual dates of the certification, and the units or locations to which the recategorised helicopters or reclassified aircraft will be assigned.

SECTION X Inspection of reduction

1 — Each State Party shall have the right to conduct inspections, without the right of refusal by the inspected State Party, of the process of reduction carried out pursuant to sections i to vin and x to xn of the Protocol on Reduction in accordance with the provisions of this section. Such inspections shall not count against the quotas established in section n of this Protocol. Inspection teams conducting such inspections may be composed of representatives of different States Parties. The inspected State Party shall not be obliged to accept more than one inspection team at a time at each reduction site.

2 — The inspected State Party shall have the right to organise and implement the process of reduction subject only to the provisions set forth in article vm of the Treaty and in the Protocol on Reduction. Inspections of the process of reduction shall be conducted in a manner that does not interfere with the ongoing activities at the reduction site or unnecessarily hamper, delay or complicate the implementation of the process of reduction.

3 — If a reduction site notified pursuant to section in of the Protocol on Information Exchange is used by more than one State Party, inspections of the reduction process shall be conducted in accordance with schedules of such use provided by each State Party using the reduction site.

4 — Each State Party that intends to reduce conventional armaments and equipment limited by the Treaty shall notify all other States Parties which conventional armaments and equipment are to be reduced at each reduction site during a calendar reporting period. Each such calendar reporting period shall have a duration of no more than 90 days and no less than 30 days. This provision shall apply whenever reduction is carried out at a reduction site, without regard to whether the reduction process is to be carried out on a continuous or intermittent basis.

5 — No less than 15 days before the initiation of reduction for a calendar reporting period, the State Party intending to implement reduction procedures shall provide to all ohter States Parties the calendar reporting period notification. Such notification shall include the designation of the reduction site with geographic coordinates, the scheduled date for initiation of reduction and the scheduled date for completion of the reduction of conventional armaments and equipment identified for reduction during the calendar reporting period. In addition, the notification shall identify:

A) The estimated number and type of conventional armaments and equipment to be reduced;

B) The object or objects of verification from which the items to be reduced have been withdrawn;

Q The reduction procedures to be used, pursuant to sections in to vm and sections x to xu of the Protocol on Reduction, for each type of conventional armaments and equipment to be reduced;