This Agreement is made as of the 9th of August, 824 A.S. between the National Council of Malta, the authority of public law of the Maltese Nation ("NC") and the Büro der Marineintelligenz, a public intelligence service with head offices in Rheinland ("BDM").
The Parties agree as follows:
1. SCOPE OF AGREEMENT
1.1 This cooperation agreement is a framework agreement. The NC may sell, buy, provide work space, refuge for and house Personnel of the BDM and the BDM may sell, buy, provide work space, refuge for, and house Personnel of the NC in the shared interest of improving relationships between our two nations and to combat mutural enemies.
2. DEFINITIONS
The following terms used in this Agreement shall have the meaning ascribed to them in Section 2:
2.1 "Personnel" only means agents directly employed or instructed by either the BDM or NC ("Affiliates").
2.2 "Affiliates" of a party means any entity that, directly or indirectly, controls, is controlled by or is under common control with, the party.
2.3 "Cardamine" means only the product grown on the soil of Malta.
2.4 "Completion Criteria" means the fulfillment of a party's duties towards the other. Duties can be repeated. A repitition of a Completion Criteria is one "Work Order".
2.5 "Hardware" means equipment or machines, sold or bought by the parties under this agreement. Hardware may be manufactured by the parties themselves or third parties.
2.6 "Software" means the data used to operate systems.
2.7 "Systems" mean automated, machinized procedures executed by non-human intelligence.
2.8 "Products" mean Hardware, Software, or agricultural produce.
2.9 "Services" mean the procedure accompanying the successful delivery of Products. The delivery is successful once it has reached the buyer.
3.0 "Catania" means a modular installation located in the Omicron Beta system and under NC control.
3.1 "Modifications" mean alterations to the terms of the agreement.
3. PRODUCTS AND SERVICES PROVIDED
3.1 The NC shall provide the personnel of the BDM with shelter, food, clothes, and any other amenities necessary in order to complete their work as assigned by their superiors for an indefinite amount of time or until such a time in which the parties deem this agreement to be obsolete. These Services are provided on Catania.
3.2 The BDM is entitled to procure any Products offered on Catania for their fixed price.
3.3 The BDM shall provide the NC with a monthly fee to compensate for expenses. The fee is a fair share of Catania's maintenance.
4. ACCEPTANCE
4.1 Products and Services delivered by NC are considered accepted by the BDM upon completion of the Completion Criteria, with recompense due upon completion of each Work Order.
5. PAYMENT
5.1 The BDM shall pay the amounts indicated for each Product if they so chose. In the case of non-payment (Failure to pay), the NC is entitled to demand the full amount.
6. TERM AND TERMINATION OF AGREEMENT
6.1 This agreement is effective upon signature by both parties as of the date noted above for a period of three (3) months ("initial term") and is automatically extended by one (1) month, unless either party notified the other in print no less than seven (7) days prior to expiration of the Initial Term or any extension thereof.
6.2 Either party may terminate this Agreement upon written notice to the other party in the event that the other party does not adequately perform their duties as outlined in this agreement. The notice is to be well-founded.
6.3 All Modifications to be in writing. This contract may be modified or rescinded only by writing signed by both of the parties.
6.4 The invalidity, in whole or in part, of any term of this agreement does not affect the validity of the remainder of the agreement.
6.5 Force majeure. Deliveries may be suspended by either party in case of acts of God, war, riots, fire, explosion, flood, strike, lockout, injuction, inability to obtain fuel, power, raw materials, labor, containers, or transportation facilities, accident, breakage of machinery or apparatus, national defense requirements, or any cause beyond the control of such party, preventing the manufacture, shipment, acceptance, or consumption or a shipment of the good or of a material upon which the manufacture of the good is dependent.
6.6 Neither NC or BDM may assign its rights under this agreement in whole or in part.
6.7 The validity, interpretation, and performances of this agreement is controlled by and construed under the laws of that Nation of Malta, as if performed wholly within the nation and without giving effect to the principled of conflict of law.
6.8 Any legal suit, action, or proceeding arising out of or relating to this agreement is to be commenced in a federal court in the Nation of Malta, and each party hereto irrevocably submits to the non-exclusive jurisdiction and venue of any such court in any such suit, action or proceeding.
6.9 This agreement signed by both parties and so initialed by both parties in the margin opposite of this paragraph constitutes the final written expression of all the terms of this agreement and is a complete and exclusive statement of those terms.
Signed,
Enfield, Geoffrey
ppa. Büro der Marineintelligenz
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ppa. The National Council of Malta
