such appellation may be permitted; and the importation, exportation, manufacture, distribution, sale or offering for sale of products or articles bearing regional appellations inconsistent with such law or order shall be prohibited by the Austrian Government and repressed by the measures prescribed in the preceding Article. CHAPTER IV TREATMENT OF NATIONALS OF ALLIED AND ASSOCIATED POWERS Austria undertakes: ARTICLE 228 (a) not to subject the nationals of the Allied and Associated Powers to any prohibition in regard to the exercise of occupations, professions, trade and industry, which shall not be equally applicable to all aliens without exception; (b) not to subject the nationals of the Allied and Associated Powers in regard to the rights referred to in paragraph (a) to any regulation or restriction which might contravene directly or indirectly the stipulations of the said paragraph, or which shall be other or more disadvantageous than those which are applicable to nationals of the most favoured nation; (c) not to subject the nationals of the Allied and Associated Powers, their property, rights or interests, including companies and associations in which they are interested, to any charge, tax or impost, direct or indirect, other or higher than those which are or may be imposed on her own nationals or their property, rights or interests; (d) not to subject the nationals of any one of the Allied and Associated Powers to any restriction which was not applicable on July 1, 1914, to the nationals of such Powers unless such restriction is likewise imposed on her own nationals. ARTICLE 229 The nationals of the Allied and Associated Powers shall enjoy in Austrian territory a constant protection for their persons and for their property, rights and interests, and shall have free access to the courts of law. ARTICLE 230 Austria undertakes to recognise any new nationality which has been or may be acquired by her nationals under the laws of the Allied and Associated Powers, and in accordance with the decisions of the competent authorities of these Powers pursuant to naturalisation laws or under treaty stipulations, and to regard such persons as having, in consequence of the acquisition of such new nationality, in all respects severed their allegiance to their country of origin. ARTICLE 231 The Allied and Associated Powers may appoint consuls-general, consuls, vice-consuls and consular agents in Austrian towns and ports. Austria under takes to approve the designation of the consuls-general, consuls, vice-consuls and consular agents, whose names shall be notified to her, and to admit them to the exercise of their functions in conformity with the usual rules and customs. CHAPTER V GENERAL ARTICLES ARTICLE 232 The obligations imposed on Austria by Chapter I above shall cease to have effective five years from the date of the coming into force of the present Treaty, unless otherwise provided in the text, or unless the Council of the League of Nations shall, at least twelve months before the expiration of that period, decide that these obligations shall be maintained for a further period with or without amendment. Nevertheless it is agreed that unless the League of Nations decides otherwise an Allied or Associated Power shall not after the expiration of three years from the coming into force of the present Treaty be entitled to require the fulfilment by Austria of the provisions of Articles 217, 218, 219 or 220 unless that Power accords correlative treatment to Austria. Article 228 shall remain in operation, with or without amendment, after the period of five years for such further period, if any, not exceeding five years, as may be determined by a majority of the Council of the League of Nations. ARTICLE 233 If the Austrian Government engages in international trade, it shall not in respect thereof have or be deemed to have any rights, privileges or immunities of sovereignty. SECTION II Treaties ARTICLE 234 From the coming into force of the present Treaty and subject to the provisions thereof the multilateral Treaties, Conventions and Agreements of an economic or technical character concluded by the former Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and enumerated below and in the subsequent Articles shall alone be applied as between Austria and those of the Allied and Associated Powers party thereto: (1) Conventions of March 14, 1884,6 December 1, 1886,7 and March 23, 1887, and Final Protocol of July 7, 1887, regarding the protection of submarine cables. ⚫TS 380, ante, vol. 1, p. 89. TS 380-2, ante, vol. 1, p. 112. * TS 380-3, ante, vol. 1, p. 114. (2) Convention of October 11, 1909, regarding the international circulation of motor-cars. (3) Agreement of May 15, 1886, regarding the sealing of railway trucks subject to customs inspection, and Protocol of May 18, 1907. (4) Agreement of May 15, 1886, regarding the technical standardisation of railways. (5) Convention of July 5, 1890, regarding the publication of customs tariffs and the organisation of an International Union for the publication of customs tariffs.9 (6) Convention of April 25, 1907, regarding the raising of the Turkish customs tariff. (7) Convention of March 14, 1857, for the redemption of Toll dues on the Sound and Belts. (8) Convention of June 22, 1861, for the redemption of the Stade Toll on the Elbe. (9) Convention of July 16, 1863, for the redemption of the Toll dues on the Scheldt. (10) Convention of October 29, 1888, regarding the establishment of a definite arrangement guaranteeing the free use of the Suez Canal. (11) Conventions of September 23, 1910, respecting the unification of certain regulations regarding collisions 10 and salvage at sea.11 11 (12) Convention of December 21, 1904, regarding the exemption of hospital ships from dues and charges in ports.1 12 (13) Convention of September 26, 1906, for the suppression of nightwork for women. (14) Conventions of May 18, 1904,13 and May 4, 1910, regarding the suppression of the White Slave Traffic. (15) Convention of May 4, 1910, regarding the suppression of obscene publications.11 (16) Sanitary Convention of December 3, 1903, and the preceding Conventions signed on January 30, 1892, April 15, 1893, April 3, 1894, and March 19, 1897. (17) Convention of May 20, 1875, regarding the unification and improvement of the metric system.15 (18) Convention of November 29, 1906, regarding the unification of pharmacopoeial formulæ for potent drugs.16 TS 384, ante, vol. 1, p. 172. 10 1911 For. Rel. 19. 11 TS 576, ante, vol. 1, p. 780. (19) Convention of November 16 and 19, 1885, regarding the establishment of a concert pitch. (20) Convention of June 7, 1905, regarding the creation of an International Agricultural Institute at Rome.1 (21) Conventions of November 3, 1881, and April 15, 1889, regarding precautionary measures against phylloxera. (22) Convention of March 19, 1902, regarding the protection of birds useful to agriculture. (23) Convention of June 12, 1902, regarding the guardianship of minors. ARTICLE 235 From the coming into force of the present Treaty the High Contracting Parties shall apply the conventions and agreements hereinafter mentioned, in so far as concerns them, Austria undertaking to comply with the special stipulations contained in this Article. Postal Conventions: Conventions and agreements of the Universal Postal Union concluded at Vienna, July 4, 1891.18 Conventions and agreements of the Postal Union signed at Washington, June 15, 1897.19 Conventions and agreements of the Postal Union signed at Rome, May 26, 1906.20 Telegraphic Conventions: International Telegraphic Conventions signed at St. Petersburg, July 10/22, 1875. Regulations and Tariffs drawn up by the International Telegraphic Conference, Lisbon, June 11, 1908. Austria undertakes not to refuse her assent to the conclusion by the new States of the special arrangements referred to in the Conventions and Agreements relating to the Universal Postal Union and to the International Telegraphic Union, to which the said new States have adhered or may adhere. ARTICLE 236 From the coming into force of the present Treaty the High Contracting Parties shall apply, in so far as concerns them, the International RadioTelegraphic Convention of July 5, 1912,21 Austria undertaking to comply with the provisional regulations which will be indicated to her by the Allied and Associated Powers. If within five years after the coming into force of the present Treaty a new convention regulating international radio-telegraphic communications should have been concluded to take the place of the Convention of July 5, 1912, this new convention shall bind Austria, even if Austria should refuse either to take part in drawing up the convention, or to subscribe thereto. This new convention will likewise replace the provisional regulations in force. ARTICLE 237 The International Convention of Paris of March 20, 1883,22 for the protection of industrial property, revised at Washington on June 2, 1911,23 and the Agreement of April 14, 1891, concerning the international registration of trade marks shall be applied as from the coming into force of the present Treaty, in so far as they are not affected or modified by the exceptions and restrictions resulting therefrom. ARTICLE 238 From the coming into force of the present Treaty the High Contracting Parties shall apply, in so far as concerns them, the Convention of the Hague of July 17, 1905, relating to civil procedure. This provision, however, will not apply to France, Portugal and Roumania. ARTICLE 239 Austria undertakes, within twelve months of the coming into force of the present Treaty, to adhere in the prescribed form to the International Convention of Berne of September 9, 1886, for the protection of literary and artistic works, revised at Berlin on November 13, 1908, and completed by the additional Protocol signed at Berne on March 20, 1914, relating to the protection of literary and artistic works. Until her adherence, Austria undertakes to recognise and protect by effective measures and in accordance with the principles of the said Convention the literary and artistic works of nationals of the Allied and Associated Powers. In addition, and irrespective of the above-mentioned adherence, Austria undertakes to continue to assure such recognition and such protection to all literary and artistic works of the nationals of each of the Allied and Associated Powers to an extent at least as great as upon July 28, 1914, and upon the same conditions. |