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ARTICLE 75

THE PROVISIONS OF THIS CHAPTER SHALL NOT APPLY TO COMMITMENTS RELATING TO THE PROCESSING , CONVERSION OR SHAPING OF ORES , SOURCE MATERIALS OR SPECIAL FISSILE MATERIALS AND ENTERED INTO

( A ) BY SEVERAL PERSONS OR UNDERTAKINGS , WHERE THE MATERIALS IS TO RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL PERSON OR UNDERTAKING AFTER BEING PROCESSED , CONVERTED OR SHAPED ; OR

( B ) BY A PERSON OR UNDERTAKING AND AN INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION OR A NATIONAL OF A THIRD STATE , WHERE THE MATERIAL IS PROCESSED , CONVERTED OR SHAPED OUTSIDE THE COMMUNITY AND THEN RETURNED TO THE ORIGINAL PERSON OR UNDERTAKING ; OR

( C ) BY A PERSON OR UNDERTAKING AND AN INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION OR A NATIONAL OF A THIRD STATE , WHERE THE MATERIAL IS PROCESSED , CONVERTED OR SHAPED INSIDE THE COMMUNITY AND IS THEN RETURNED EITHER TO THE ORIGINAL ORGANISATION OR NATIONAL OR TO ANY OTHER CONSIGNEE LIKEWISE OUTSIDE THE COMMUNITY DESIGNATED BY SUCH ORGANISATION OR NATIONAL .

THE PERSONS AND UNDERTAKINGS CONCERNED SHALL , HOWEVER , NOTIFY THE AGENCY OF THE EXISTENCE OF SUCH COMMITMENTS AND , AS SOON AS THE CONTRACTS ARE SIGNED , OF THE QUANTITIES OF MATERIAL INVOLVED IN THE MOVEMENTS . THE COMMISSION MAY PREVENT THE COMMITMENTS REFERRED TO IN SUBPARAGRAPH ( B ) FROM BEING UNDERTAKEN IF IT CONSIDERS THAT THE CONVERSION OR SHAPING CANNOT BE CARRIED OUT EFFICIENTLY AND SAFELY AND WITHOUT THE LOSS OF MATERIAL TO THE DETRIMENT OF THE COMMUNITY .

THE MATERIALS TO WHICH SUCH COMMITMENTS RELATE SHALL BE SUBJECT IN THE TERRITORIES OF THE MEMBER STATES TO THE SAFEGUARDS LAID DOWN IN CHAPTER VII . THE PROVISIONS OF CHAPTER VIII SHALL NOT , HOWEVER , BE APPLICABLE TO SPECIAL FISSILE MATERIALS COVERED BY THE COMMITMENTS REFERRED TO IN SUBPARAGRAPH ( C ) .