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Article 30 (1) Countries which introduce into their legislation the term of protection of fifty years provided by Article 7, paragraph 1, of this Convention shall give notice thereof in "writing to the Government of the Swiss Confederation, which shall immediately communicate it to all the other Countries of the Union. (2) The same procedure shall be followed in the case of Countries abandoning the reservations made or maintained by them in accordance with Articles 25 and 27. Article 31 The official Acts of the Conferences shall be established in French. An equivalent text shall be established in English. In the case of dispute as to the interpretation of the Acts, the French text shall always prevail. Any Country or group of Countries of the Union shall be entitled to have established by the International Office an authoritative text of the said Acts in the language of its choice, and by arrangement with the Office. These texts shall be published in the Acts of the Conferences, annexed to the French and English texts. In faith whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed this Convention. Done at Brussels the 26th day of June, 1948, in a single copy, which shall be deposited in the archives of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Belgium. A copy, duly certified,, shall be transmitted by the diplomatic channel to each Country of the Union.

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