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1. This Agreement shall be applied provisionally as from the date of its signature and shall enter into force on the first day of the second month following the date on which the Contracting Parties have informed each other in writing that the requirements necessary to give effect to the Agreement in their respective countries have been complied with.
2. The Agreement shall remain in force for a period of one year after its entry into force. Thereafter, the Agreement shall be tacitly extended from year to year unless one of the Contracting Parties has, six months prior to the date of extension, given to the other Contracting Party written notice of its intention to terminate it.