Artikel IX

1. Facilities made available to the Sending State shall be such as to enable the Sending State to provide effectively for its own security. Regularly constituted military units or formations of the Sending State shall have the right to police these facilities. The military police of the Sending State may take all appropriate measures to ensure maintenance of order and security in such facilities.
2. Outside the facilities, mentioned in paragraph 1, the military police of the Sending State shall be employed only subject to arrangements with the authorities of the Receiving State and in liaison with those authorities and in so far as such employment is necessary to maintain discipline and order among the Sending State’s personnel.
3. The personnel of each Contracting Party shall observe its national military and civilian safety and security regulations with regard to the storage and employment of weapons, ammunition, vehicles and other equipment unless the respective Receiving State’s safety and security regulations require a higher level of security.
4. In case of joint exercises and training activities, the Contracting Parties shall apply the regulations providing the highest level of security.