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ARTICLE 8 The provisions of the present Agreement shall not prejudice the application of the provisions of Agreements or Treaties of Peace concluded or to be concluded between countries which have been at war with one another. ARTICLE 9 (1) The present Agreement, open to countries members of the Union for the Protection of Industrial Property, shall be ratified as soon as possible. The ratifications shall be deposited with the Government of the Swiss Confederation, and notified by that Government to all the others. The present Agreement shall enter into force without delay between the countries which have ratified it. (2) Countries which have not signed the present Agreement may accede to it upon request. Such accessions shall be notified to the Government of the Swiss Confederation, and by that Government to all the others. Accessions shall entail, as a matter of right, and without delay, accession to all the clauses and admission to all the advantages stipulated by the present Agreement. ARTICLE 10 Any contracting country may extend the present Agreement, by simple notification made to the Government of the Swiss Confederation, to all or part of its colonies, protectorates, territories under mandate or under trusteeship, or all other territories uncjer its authority, or all territories under suzerainty. The Government of the Swiss Confederation will transmit this notification to the other Governments. ARTICLE 11 The present Agreement shall be signed in a single copy, wfyich shall be deposited in the archives of the Government of the Swiss Confederation. A certified copy shall be transmitted by that Government to each of the signatory and acceding Governments. Done at Neuchatel, 8 February 1947. For Belgium .. .. Hamels. For Brazil .. .. Francisco Antonio Coelho. For Czechoslovakia . . J. Andrial. For Denmark .. .. N. J. Ehrenreich Hansen. For Eire .. .. Edward A. Cleary. For Finland . . . . Paavo Ant-Wuorinen. For France .. .. Marcel Plaisant. For Great Britain and Northern Ireland .. .. Harold L. Saunders. B. G. Crewe.