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(1). A conference shall adopt and keep up to date an illustrative list, which shall be as comprehensive as possible, of practices which are regarded as malpractices and/or breaches of the conference agreement and shall provide effective self-policing machinery to deal with them, with specific provisions requiring:
(a) the fixing of penalties or a range of penalties for malpractices or breaches, to be commensurate with their seriousness;
(b) the examination and impartial review of an adjudication of complaints, and/or decisions taken on complaints, against malpractices or breaches, by a person or body unconnected with any of the shipping lines members of the conference or their affiliates, on request by the conference or any other party concerned;
(c) the reporting, on request, on the action taken in connexion with complaints against malpractices and/or breaches, and on a basis of anonymity for the parties concerned, to the appropriate authorities of the countries whose trade is served by the conference and of the countries whose shipping lines are members of the conference.
(2). Shipping lines and conferences are entitled to the full cooperation of shippers and shippers' organizations in the endeavour to combat malpractices and breaches.