Declaration made upon signature:
"In their application to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the words "metropolitan territories" in Article 12, paragraph 1 of the Agreement no longer have their original sense but shall be deemed to signify "European Territory" in view of the equality existing in public law between the Netherlands, Surinam and the Netherlands West Indies."
[Note by the CE Secretariat: The Convention no longer applies to Surinam since this territory became independent on 25 November 1975.]