Article 1

Member States shall ensure that their export credit insurance organizations acting on behalf of the State or with its support, or the public departments acting in place of such organizations, comply with the provisions of the specimen agreement annexed hereto as regards their reciprocal obligations if deciding to grant, jointly with an organization or public department of another Member State, guarantees relating to a contract involving one or more subcontracts in one or more Member States.

The annexed provisions shall not preclude the adoption by the organizations or departments referred t6 in paragraph 1 of additional provisions not affecting the scope of the provisions annexed hereto, when applying the latter to any specific operation.