notary public services.
5. Each Party agrees to accord national treatment to covered investments in the following sectors:
leasing of minerals and pipeline rights-of-way on government lands.
Protocol
1. With respect to Article Ill. paragraphs (3) and (4), the Parties confinn their mutual understanding that a "commercially reasonable rate" for a freely usable currency may include a commercially reasonable bank rate for that freely usable currency and a commercially reasonable bond rate for government bonds for that freely usable currency.
2. The Parties confirm their mutual understanding that the provisions of this Treaty do not bind either Party in relation to any act or fact which took place or any situation which ceased to exist before entry into force of this Treaty.