of each of the Parties.
Article 4
1. The Competent Authorities of the Parties shall exchange the information in writing on the occurrence and spread of new quarantine pests, as well as on measures of their control and prevention of their spreading in the territory of their respective states.
2. The Competent Authorities of the Parties shall mutually exchange official documents, in force in the territories of the states of the Parties, regulating import, export and transit of the regulated articles, as well as shall inform about all amendments made in them.
3. The Competent Authorities of the Parties shall render each other scientific and technical assistance in the field of plant quarantine.
Article 5
1. Each consignment of the regulated articles, transported from the territory of the state of one Party to the territory of the state of the other Party, or in transit via the territory of the state of one of the Parties to the territory of the state of the other Party shall be accompanied by the phytosanitary certificate in the model set out in the Convention, issued by the Competent Authorities of the Parties, certifying that the regulated articles are free from the quarantine pests and meet the phytosanitary requirements of the importing Party.
2. The importing Party in compliance with the provisions of the Convention and the International Standards for Phytosanitary Measures, shall not require phytosanitary certificates for the regulated articles consignments, including packaging material, that have been processed in such a way that they have no potential for introducing quarantine pests, or for other materials that do not require phytosanitary measures.
3. The Parties recognize the possibility of joint audit of the sites of production, processing, storage and packaging of the regulated articles, transported from the territory of the state of one Party to the territory of the state of the other Party and of the phytosanitary control system. Payment for the expenses connected with the audit shall be effected as agreed upon between the Parties.
4. Presence of the phytosanitary certificate does not exclude the right of the Parties to carry out phytosanitary inspection of the regulated articles in accordance with the phytosanitary requirements of their respective countries.
5. Phytosanitary control issues connected with import, export or transit of the regulated articles from the territory of the state of one Party to the territory of the state of the other Party shall be bilaterally settled between the Competent Authorities of the Parties.
Article 6
In case of the detection of alive quarantine pests during the phytosanitary inspection of the regulated articles consignment the Competent Authorities of the importing Party have the right to subject it to the disinfection, to destroy it in case the disinfection is impossible, or to return it back to the exporter, informing the Competent Authorities of the other Party on the phytosanitary measures taken and the reasons thereof.
Article 7
The Parties shall be responsible for the phytosanitary status of the exported consignments of the regulated articles until their exportation from the territory of the state of one Party to the territory of the state of the other Party.
Article 8
Export, import and transit of the regulated articles from the territory of the state of one Party to the territory of the state of the other Party shall be effected in state border points, specified in compliance with the national legislation of the Parties.
Article 9
1. The Parties agreed that during the exportation of the regulated articles there shall be used the new packaging free of quarantine pest
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