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1. For the purposes of the present Convention, Contracting Parties shall be divided into categories according to whether the authority competent to deal with matters pertaining to equivalences in their territories is:
(a) the State;
(b) the university;
(c) the State or university as the case may be.
Each Contracting Party shall inform the Secretary-General of the Council of Europe which is the competent authority in its territory to deal with matters pertaining to equivalences.
2. The term “universities” shall denote:
(a) universities, and
(b) institutions regarded as being similar in character to universities by the Contracting Party in whose territory they are situated.