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54STAT.] MULTILATERALTE ELECOMMUNICATION-APR. 8 , 1938 1579 [774] (3) The statement shall be addressed to the Bureau of the Union, which will give notice thereof to all the administrations. [775] (4) Each administration, private operating enterprise, and international organization shall have the right to withdraw its under- taking to participate in the C. C . I. R. work by notifying the Bureau of the Union of its decision. The latter shall give notice thereof to all the administrations. This notification shall take effect beginning with the C. C . I. R. meeting which follows. [776] §3. The administrations and private operating enterprises not adhering to the Regulations, as well as the administrations, and inter- national organizations recognized by their respective governments which, not permanently participating in the work of the C. C. I. R., have not made the statement provided in §2 [Nos. 772 and 773], may be admitted under the conditions stipulated in the internal regulations of the C. C. I. R. as mentioned in §6 [No. 781]. [777] §4. (1) Each administration, private operating enterprise, or international organization shall defray the personal expenses of its own experts. [778] (2) During C. C . I. R. meetings, experts from governments, private operating enterprises, and international organizations, as well as representatives of the Bureau of the Union, have the right to the telecommunications franking privileges, under conditions fixed by the organizing administration, in agreement with the adminis- trations and private operating enterprises concerned. [780] §5. In principle, the meetings of the C. C. I. R. shall take place every three years. However, a meeting which has been scheduled may be advanced or postponed by the organizing administration, upon request of twelve of the participating administrations, if the number and nature of the questions to be studied warrant it. [781] §6. The preceding provisions relative to the organization of the C. C . I. R. shall be supplemented by the internal regulations annexed to the present Regulations (see appendix 16). Pod . 1609. ARTICLE 34 Expenses of the Bureau of the Union [782] §1. The ordinary expenses of the Bureau of the Union for the E"pon oBua. radio service must not exceed the amount of 200,000 gold francs annually. [783] §2. However, if an exceptionally high expense is incurred for printed matter or for various documents during a year, and the cor- responding revenue is not collected during the same year, the Bureau shall be authorized, in this case only, to exceed the maximum credit provided for, with the understanding that the maximum credit for the following year shall be reduced by an amount equal to the above- mentioned excess. [784] §3. The sum of 200,000 gold francs may be modified between two conferences, with the consent of all the contracting parties.