Public undertakings. 1. Member States shall ensure the elimination in the practices of public undertakings, of (a) measures the effect of which is to afford protection to domestic production which would be inconsistent with this Annex if achieved by means of a duty or charge with equivalent effect or quantitative restrictions or Government aid; or (b) trade discrimination on grounds of territorial origin in so far as it frustrate the benefits expected from such removal or absence of duties and quantitative restrictions as is required by this Annex. 2. In so far as Article 25 of this Annex is relevant to the activities of public undertakings, that Article shall apply to them in the same way as it applies to other enterprises. 3. Member States shall ensure that new practice of the kind described in paragraph 1 of this Article are not introduced. 4. For the purposes of this Article, 'public undertakings' means central, regional, or local government authorities, public enterprises and any other organization by means of which a Member State by law or in practice controls or appreciably influences imports from, or exports to any other part of the Common Market. 5. This Article shall not apply in respect of trade within the Common Market in agricultural products until such time as Member States agree upon a Common Market Policy with respect to the production and marketing, including the subsidization, of agricultural products.
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Samples: Caricom Free Trade Agreement, Treaty, Treaty
