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Paragraph 2

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Each Party shall take appropriate measures to prevent illicit cultivation of and to eradicate plants containing narcotic or psychotropic substances, such as opium poppy, coca bush and cannabis plants, cultivated illicitly in its territory. The measures adopted shall respect fundamental human rights and shall take due account of traditional licit uses, where there is historic evidence of such use, as well as the protection of the environment.

Notes on Schedule 1

Footnotes

f1

Paragraph 15 of Schedule 1 to the 1989 Act was amended bt section 22 of the Criminal Justice (International Co-operation) Act 1990.

f2

Treaty Series No. 23 (1979), Cmnd. 7466.

f3

Miscellaneous No. 24 (1978), Cmnd. 7330.