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1. The present Agreement shall enter into force on the first day of the second month following the date on which the Contracting Parties have notified each other in writing that the procedures constitutionally required in their respective countries have been complied with, and shall remain in force for a period of fifteen years.
2. Unless written notice of termination has been given by either Contracting Party at least six months before the date of the expiry of its validity, the present Agreement shall be extended tacitly for periods of ten years, whereby each Contracting Party reserves the right to terminate the Agreement upon notice of at least six months before the date of expiry of the current period of validity.
3. In respect of investments made before the date of the termination of the present Agreement the foregoing Articles shall continue to be effective for a further period of fifteen years from that date.
4. Subject to the period mentioned in paragraph (2) of this Article, the Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands shall be entitled to terminate the application of the present Agreement separately in respect of any of the parts of the Kingdom.
5. Upon entry into force of this Agreement the Agreement on the Protection of Investments between the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, signed on the 16th February 1976, shall be replaced by this Agreement in relations between the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Republic of Slovenia.