22 DE JULHO DE 1994

976-(23)

4 — No later than ten days after receipt of the notification pursuant to the provisions of paragraph 3 of this section, each State Party shall notify all other States Parties of its intention to participate in the certification of such aircraft and its sensors pursuant to the provisions of article rv, paragraph 11. The number of individuals that shall participate in the certification from amongst those States Parties that notified their intention to participate shall be decided upon within the Open Skies Consultative Commission. Unless otherwise agreed, the "number of individuals shall total no more than 40 and incltfde no more than four from any one State Party. In the event'.ithat two or more States Parties notify their intention to conduct a certification during the same period, it shall be decided within the Open Skies Consultative Commission which of them shall conduct the certification in this period.

5 — Each State Party taking part in the certification shall notify the State Party conducting the certification no less than 30 days prior, to the date on which the. certification of the observation aircraft is to begin, as notified in accordance with paragraph 3 of this section, of die following:

A) The names of the individuals taking part in the certification and, in the event that a noncommercial transport aircraft is used to travel to the point of entry, a list of the names of the crew members, in each case specifying gender, date of birth, place of birth and passport number. All such individuals shall be on the list of individuals designated pursuant to article xm, section i, of the Treaty;

B) The date and the estimated time of arrival of such individuals at the point of entry; and

Q The mode of transport used to arrive at the point of entry.

6 — No less than 14 days prior to the date on which the certification of the observation aircraft is to begin, as notified in accordance with paragraph 3 of this section, the State Party conducting the certification shall provide the States Parties which are taking part in the certification with the following information for each sensor installed on the observation aircraft, and for associated equipment used for the annotation of data collected by sensors:

A) A description of each constituent part of the sensor, including its purpose, and any connection to associated equipment used for the annotation of data;

B) Photographs taken of each sensor separate from the observation aircraft, in accordance with the following specifications:

1) Each sensor shall fill at least 80 per cent of the photograph either horizontally or. vertically;

2) Such photographs may be either colour or black and white and shall measure 18 centimetres by 24 centimetres, excluding the border; and

3) Each photograph shall be annotated with the category of the sensor, its type and model, and the name of the.State Party that is presenting the sensor for certification;

C) Instructions on the in-flight operation of each sensor.

- .7 — In the event that no State Party notifies its intention to take part in the certification in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 5 of this section, the State Party shall conduct by itself an in-flight examination in accordance with the provisions of section in of this annex and complete a certification report in accordance with the provisions of section rv of this annex.

.8 — The provisions of article xin, section n, of the Treaty shall apply to the personnel of each State Party taking part in the certification during the entire period of their stay on the territory of the State Party conducting the certification.

9 — The personnel of each State Party taking part in the certification shall leave the territory of the State Party conducting the certification promptly after signing the certification report,

Section U ' Ground examination

1 — With the approval of the State Party conducting the certification, ground examinations by more than one State Party may be conducted simultaneously. States Parties shall have the right jointly to conduct a ground examination of the observation aircraft and its sensors. The State Party conducting the certification shall have the right to determine the number of personnel engaged at any one time in the ground examination of an observation aircraft and its sensors.

2 —Unless otherwise agreed, the ground examination shall not exceed three eight-hour periods for each observation aircraft and its'sensors.

3 — Prior to the commencement of the ground examination, the State Party conducting the certification shall provide the States Parties taking part in the certification with the following information:

A) For optical panoramic and framing cameras:

1) The modulation transfer curve of the response of the lens to spatial frequency (frequency/contrast characteristic) at the

. maximum relative aperture of that lens, in .. lines per millimetre;

2) Specifications of the black and white aerial film that will be used to collect data during. an observation flight or for the duplication of such data, in accordance with the provisions of annex K, section .i, paragraph 2, to the Treaty; -

3) Specifications of the film processors which will be used to develop original film negatives and duplicators that will be used to produce film positives or negatives, in accordance with the provisions of annex K,

, section i, paragraph 1, to the Treaty; and

4) Flight test data snowing ground resolution . as a function of height above ground level

.. for each type of aerial film that will be used with the optical camera;

B) For video cameras, flight test data from all output devices showing ground resolution as a function of height above ground level;

O For infra-red line-scanning devices, flight test data from all output devices showing ground resolution as a function of height above ground level; and