'League of Nations, Conference for the Supervision of the International Trade in Arms and Ammunition and in Implements of War, Geneva, 17th June 1925' [‎10r] (24/138)

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3. Samples of articles covered by Category I exported for demon
stration purposes direct to a trade representative of the exporting manu
facturer, such representative being duly authorised by the Government
of the importing country to receive them.
In the above mentioned cases, an order in writing, endorsed by the Govern
ment of the importing country or by its representative duly authorised so to act,
must have been presented to the authorities of the exporting country. It shall
contain all the information necessary to show that the order is properly made
under this Article.
Article 4.
Permission to export under Articles 2 and 3 shall be signified by a licence. An
export declaration, if filed with and approved by the competent authorities of the
exporting country, may take the place of a licence.
Such licence or declaration must contain :
(а) A description sufficient for the identification of the articles to
which it relates, and giving their designation according to th^e headings
in Category I, and their number or weight;
(б) The name and address of^he exporter ;
(c) The name and address of the importing consignee ;
(d) The name of the Government which has authorised the import.
Each separate consignment which crosses the frontier of the exporting country
whether by land, water or air, shall be accompanied by a document containing the
particulars indicated above. This document may be either the licence of export
declaration or a certified copy thereof or a certificate issued by the Customs
authorities of the exporting country, stating that the consignment is exported
under licence or export declaration in accordance with the provisions of the present
Convention.
Article 5.
The articles covered by Category II shall only be exported under cover of an
export document, which may be either a licence issued by the competent authorities
of the exporting country or an export declaration endorsed by or filed with them.
If the legislation of the importing country requires the endorsement of a duly
authorised representative of its Government, and if this fact has been notified by
the said Government to the Government of the exporting country, then such an
endorsement must have been obtained and submitted to the competent authorities
of the exporting country before the export may take place.
Neither the licence nor the export declaration shall entail any responsibility
upon the Government of the exporting country as to the destination or ultimate
use of any consignment.
Nevertheless, if the High Contracting Parties consider, on account of the size,
destination or other circumstances of a consignment, that the arms and ammunition
consigned are intended for war purposes, they undertake to apply to such consign
ment the provisions of Articles 2, 3 and 4.
Article 6.
As a preliminary to a general system of publicity for armaments irrespective
.ot their origin, the High Contracting Parties undertake to publish, within two
months of the close of each quarter, a statistical return of their foreign trade durin 0 "
this quarter in the articles covered by Categories I and II. This return shall be
drawn up in accordance with the specimen forms contained in Annex I to the pre-
sent Convention and shall show under each heading appearing in Categories I and
II in Article 1 the value and the weight or number of the articles exported or
imported under a licence or export declaration, allocated according to country of
origin or destination.
In all cases where the consignment comes from, or is sent to, a territory
possessing an autonomous Customs system, such territory shall be shown as til®
country of origin or destination.