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1. The authentic languages of this Convention shall be all official languages of FAO.
2. Nothing in this Convention shall be construed as requiring contracting parties to provide and to publish documents or to provide copies of them other than in the language(s) of the contracting party, except as stated in paragraph 3 below.
3. The following documents shall be in at least one of the official languages of FAO:
a. information provided according to Article IV paragraph 4;
b. cover notes giving bibliographical data on documents transmitted according to Article VII paragraph 2(b);
c. information provided according to Article VII paragraph 2(b), (d), (i) and (j);
d. notes giving bibliographical data and a short summary of relevant documents on information provided according to Article VIII paragraph 1(a);
e. requests for information from contact points as well as replies to such requests, but not including any attached documents;
f. any document made available by contracting parties for meetings of the Commission.