1. Should a member fail to pay two contributions its voting rights and participation, in the next Executive Committee meeting and General Assembly after such failure has been ascertained, shall be automatically suspended. The Executive Committee shall determine, on a case by case basis, the conditions under which the member concerned may regularise its situation or, failing that, be deemed to have denounced the Agreement.

2. In the case that three successive contributions have not been paid, the Director General shall notify the member or observer concerned of this situation. If the situation is not regularised during the two years following the thirty-first of December of the third year, the member or the observer concerned shall be automatically excluded. Chapter VI – Participation of International Intergovernmental Organisations