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The Organization shall have legal personality in the metropolitan territories of all Member States. The Organization and the representatives of Member States on the Council, the members of any subordinate bodies established under paragraph 12 of Article V, the Directors General and the members of the staff of the Organization shall be accorded, in the metropolitan territories of Member States, by virtue of agreements to be concluded between the Organization and each Member State concerned, such privileges and immunities if any as they agree to be necessary for the exercise of the functions of the Organization. The agreements to be concluded between the Organization and the Member States, on the territory of which the Laboratories of the Organization shall be established, shall contain, in addition to provisions concerning privileges and immunities, provisions regulating the special relations between the Organization and those Member States.