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2 — No State Party shall reduce by use for ground instructional purposes numbers of combat aircraft or attack helicopters greater than five percent of its maci-mum level for holdings in each of those two categories as notified at the signature of the Treaty pursuant to article vn of the Treaty.

3 — Conventional armaments and equipment limited by the Treaty in use for ground instructional purposes prior to the signature of the Treaty shall not be subject to any numerical limitations set forth in articles iv, v or vi of the Treaty, or the numerical limitations set forth in paragraph 2 of this section.

4 — Such items to be reduced by use for ground instructional purposes shall undergo the following procedures at reduction sites:

A) For combat aircraft:

1) Severing of the fuselage into two parts in the central wing area;

2) Removal of engines, mutilation of engine mounting points and either filling of all fuel tanks with concrete, polymer or resin setting compounds or removal of the fuel tanks and mutilation of the fuel tank mounting points; or

3) Removal of all internal, external and removable armament and armaments systems equipment, removal of the tail fin and mutilation of the tail fin mounting points, and filling of all but on fuel tank with concret, polymer or resin seting compounds; and

B) For attack helicopters:

Severing of the tail boom or tail part from the fuselage so that the assembly joint is contained in the severed portion.

PROTOCOL ON PROCEDURES GOVERNING THE CATEGORISATION OF COMBAT HELICOPTERS AND THE RECATEGORISATION OF MULTI PURPOSE ATTACK HELICOPTERS.

The States Parties hereby agree upon procedures and provisions governing the categorisation of combat helicopters and recategorisation of multi-purpose attack helicopters as provided for in article vm of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe of November 19, 1990, hereinafter referred to as the Treaty.

SECTION I

General requirements for the categorisation of combat helicopters

1 — Combat helicopters shall be categorised as specialised attack, multi-purpose attack or combat support helicopters and shall be listed as such in the Protocol on Existing Types.

2 — All models or versions of a specialised attack helicopter type shall be categorised as specialised attack helicopters.

3 — Notwithstanding the provisions in paragraph 2 of this section and as a unique exception to that paragraph, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics may

hold an aggregate total not to exceed 100 Mi-24R and MI-24K helicopters equipped for reconnaissance, spotting, or chemical/biological/radiological sampling which shall not be subject to the limitations on attack helicopters in articles iv and vi of the Treaty. Such helicopters shall be subject to exchange of information in accordance with the Protocol on Information Exchange and to internal inspection in accordance with section vi, paragraph 30, of the Protocol on Inspection. Mi-24R and Mi-24K helicopters in excess of this limit shall be categorised as specialised attack helicopters regarless of how they are equipped and shall count against the limitations on attack helicopters in articles iv and vi of the Treaty.

4 — Each State Party that holds both combat support and multi-purpose attack models or versions of a helicopter type shall categorise as attack helicopters all helicopters which have any of the features listed in section m, paragraph 1, of this Protocol and shall have the right to categorise as combat support helicopters any helicopters that have none of the features listed in section in, paragraph 1, of this Protocol.

5 — Each State Party that holds only combat support models or versions of a helicopter typo included on both the multi-purpose attack helicopter and the combat support helicopter lists in the Protocol on Existing Types shall have the right to categorise such helicopters as combat support helicopters.

SECTION II General requirements for recategorisation

1 — Only combat helicopters that are categorised as multi-purpose attack helicopters in accordance with the categorisation requirements set forth in this Protocol shall be eligible for recategorisation as combat support helicopters.

2 — Each State Party shall have the right to recategorise individual multi-purpose attack helicopters that have any of the features set forth in section in, paragraph 1 of this Protocol only by conversion and certification. Each State Party shall have the right to recategorise individual multi-purpose attack helicopters that do not have any of the features set forth in section ill, paragraph 1, of this Protocol by certification alone.

3 — Each State Party shall use whatever technological means it deems necessary to implement the conversion procedures set forth in section hi of this Protocol.

4 — Each combat helicopter subject to the recategorisation procedure shall bear the original manufacturer's serial number permanently stamped in a main airframe structural member.

SECTION III

Procedures for conversion

1 — Multi-purpose attack helicopters being converted shall be rendered incapable of further employment of guided weapons by the removal of the following components:

A) Provisions specifically for the attachment of guided weapons, such as special hardpoints or