ARTICLE X
1. Each Contracting State undertakes to adopt, in accordance
with its Constitution, such measures as are necessary to ensure the
application of this Convention.
2. It is understood that at the date this Convention comes into
force in respect of any State, that State must be in a position under its
domestic law to give effect to the terms of this Convention.
ARTICLE XI
1. An Intergovernmental Committee is hereby established with
the following duties:
(a) to study the problems concerning the application and
operation of the Universal Copyright Convention;
(b) to make preparation for periodic revisions of this
Convention;
(c) to study any other problems concerning the international
protection of copyright, in co-operation with the various
interested international organizations, such as the United
Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the
International Union for the Protection of Literary and Artistic
Works and the Organization of American States;
(d) to inform States party to the Universal Copyright
Convention as to its activities.
2. The Committee shall consist of the representatives of
eighteen States party to this Convention or only to the 1952 Convention.
3. The Committee shall be selected with due consideration to a
fair balance of national interests on the basis of geographical location,
population, languages and stage of development.
4. The Director-General of the United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization, the Director-General of the
World Intellectual Property Organization and the Secretary-General
of the Organization of American States, or their representatives, may
attend meetings of the Committee in an advisory capacity.
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