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TELECOMMUNICATION CONVENTION. DECEMBER 9,1932. (2) On the basis of the documents put at its disposal and of the information which it may gather, it shall publish periodically 8 journal of information and documentation concerning telecommuni- cations. (3) It must also, at all times, hold itself at the disposal of the contracting governments to furnish them with such opinions and information as they may need on questions concerning international telecommunications, and which it is in a better position to have or to obtain than these governments. 2407 (4) It shall prepare an annual report on its activities, which Annualreport,< . shall be communicated to all members of the Union. The operating account shall be submitted, for examination and approval, to the plenipotentiary or administrative conferences provided for in article 18 of the present Convention. § 3. (1) The general expenses of the Bureau of the Union must Expen8t'S of Bureau. not exceed, per year, the amounts specified in the Regulations annexed to the present Convention. These general expenses shall not include: (a) the expenses pertaining to the work of plenipotentiary or administrative conferences, (b) the expenses pertaining to the work of duly created com- mittees. (2) The expenses pertaining to the plenipotentiary and Conferences. administrative conferences shall be borne by all the governments participating therein, in proportion to the contribution which they pay for the operation of the Bureau of the Union, in accordance with the provisions of the following subparagraph (3). 1'he expenses pertaining to the meetings of the commit- tees regularly created shall be borne in accordance with the provisions of the Regulations annexed to the present Convention. (3) The receipts and expenses of the Bureau of the Union Keeping BCOOUDt~. must. be carried in two separate accounts, one for the telegraph and telephone services, the other for the radio service. The expenses per- taining to each of these two divisions shall be borne by the governments adhering to the corresponding Regulations. For the apportioning of ex~!:.tlOnmeDI of these expenses, the adhering governments shall be divided into six classes, each contributing at the rate of a certain number of units, namely: 1st class: 25 units 2d class: 20 units 3d class: 15 units 4th class: 10 units 5th class: 5 units 6th class: 3 units (4) Each government shall inform the Bureau of the Union, directly or through its B,dministration, of the class in which its country is to be placed. This classification shall be communicated to the members of the Union.