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(1). Each Contracting Party shall have the right to designate in writing to the other Contracting Party one or more airlines for the purpose of operating by virtue of the present Agreement air services on the routes specified in the appropriate section of the Schedule to the present Agreement (hereinafter respectively referred to as the agreed services and the specified routes). On receipt of the designation of an airline, that other Contracting Party shall, subject to the provisions of paragraph (2) of this Article and of Article 3 of the present Agreement, without delay grant to that airline the appropriate operating authorisation.
(2). Before granting the authorisation referred to in paragraph (1) of this Article, the aeronautical authorities of one Contracting Party may require an airline designated by the other Contracting Party to satisfy them that it is qualified to fulfil the conditions prescribed under the laws and regulations which they normally apply in conformity with the provisions of the Convention to the operation of commercial airlines.
(3). At any time after the provisions of paragraph (1) of this Article have been complied with, an airline so designated and authorised may begin to operate the agreed services.