Budapest, 15 June 1966
The Government of India and the Government of the Hungarian People’s Republic,
BEING mutually desirous of achieving the closest possible collaboration in the economic and technical fields on the basis of equality
and mutual benefit,
HAVE agreed as follows :
Article 1
The Government of the Hungarian People’s Republic wishing to contribute to the promotion of the economic, development of India :
(a) makes available to the Government of India a credit up to the amount of 125 million Indian rupees; and
(b) licences that the Hungarian Foreign Trade Enterprises extend Supplier’s Credit to organisations and enterprises of Public and
Private Sectors in India upto the amount of 125 million Indian rupees,
to licence the credit part of the F.0.B. value of plants, machinery, equipments, etc., required for complete projects delivered by
Hungarian Foreign Trade Enterprises.
The proportion between the amounts under para (a) and (b) above can be changed by common consent of the two Parties.
Article 2
The Government of the Hungarian People’s Republic will licence the export of goods contracted in the frame of the present Agreement,
and the Government of India will arrange for the issuance of any licences necessary for the import of such goods.
Article 3
(a)Contracts will be concluded in accordance with the stipulations of this Agreement before December 31, 1970 in Indian rupees within
the framework of government credit between the Hungarian Foreign Trade Enterprises and Indian Government Organisations authorised
by Government of India in this behalf. Indicative list of the projects is attached to this Agreement. (See Appendix) .
(b)Each individual contract concluded will come into force when the Government of India/Ministry of Finance/and the National Bank
of Hungary notify each other of the approval of the competent authorities of their country. The date of coming into force shall be
the date of the later notification. The approval means also the consent of the Governments to include the respective contract in
the framework of the present Agreement.
Article 4
The prices of goods sold under this Agreement will be based on world competitive prices and shall be agreed upon between buyer and
seller when concluding the contracts.
Article 5
The terms of payments will be as follows :
(a) 71/2% of the F.O.B. value of the contracts shall be paid, to the credit of the Indo-Hungarian Credit Repayment Account referred
to in para (b) of Article 9, in advance within 60 days counted from the date of coming into force of the contract.
(b) The remaining part of the contracted value of the delivered goods shall be paid debiting the credit Accounts established in accordance
with Article 7 of this Agreement.
Article 6
The National Bank of Hungary is authorized by the Government of India on presentation of the shipping documents for each part-shipment
to effect payments to the Hungarian Foreign Trade Enterprises concerned and to pass automatically the value of the credit part of
the deliveries of goods to the debit of the respective Credit Accounts established under Article 7 of this Agreement.
The dates when the National Bank of Hungary will debit the Credit Accounts will be considered as the date on which the credit has
been drawn, and the commencing date of interest-calculation as per Article 7.
Article 7
For the purpose of keeping records of utilsation of Government Credit the National Bank of Hungary will open on its Books for each
individual contract--concluded in the frame of Government Credit-in the name of the Government of India/Ministry of Finance/Credit
Accounts, separately, free of charge and bearing interest of 21/2% p.a. These accounts shall be kept in Indian rupees and styled
“Credit Account of the Government of India according to the Agreement on Economic Cooperation of 1966 No . . . .”
The amount of interest shall be calculated on the amount outstanding to the debit of the Indian Party in the Credit Accounts, as on
June 30 and December 31 each year. The amount of interest so calculated will be communicated to the Government of India/Ministry
of Finance/to be paid free of income tax, within one month after receipt of intimation. The last payment of interest shall be effected
simultaneously with the last instalment of the respective credit.
The National Bank of Hungary shall credit the above mentioned Credit Accounts with the amounts paid according to Article 8 of this
Agreement.
Article 8
The amounts debited to the Credit Accounts referred to in Article 7 shall be repaid in Indian Rupees by the Government of lndia/ Ministry
of Finance as follows :
(a) 71/2% of the F.O.B. value of the contract within 60 days counted from the date of the shipping documents of the last essential
consignment of the project to be fixed in the contract.
(b)The remaining part of the contracted value in ten equal yearly instalments beginning one year after the date of the shipping documents
of the last essential consignment to be fixed in the individual contract. Subsequent instalments shall be due on the same day of
each following year.
Article 9
(a)All the detailed terms of payment not regulated in this Agreement shall be stipulated in the contracts.
(b)Repayment of the credits mentioned in para (a) and (b) of Article 1 of this Agreement and payment of the interest accrued thereon
shall be effected in Indian rupees and credited to a separate account-free of income tax-styled as the Indo-Hungarian Credit Repayment
Account to be opened by the Reserve Bank of India, Bombay in the name of the National Bank of Hungary. The above payments will be
trade in accordance with the Trade and Payments Agreement between the two countries as might be in force from time to time.
(c)The funds accumulating on the Indo-Hungarian Credit Repayment Account may be freely used by the National Bank of Hungary for transfers
to the credit of the accounts kept by the Reserve Bank of India and/or by the Indian commercial banks in the name of the National
Bank of Hungary in pursuance of the Trade and Payments Agreement in force between the two countries from time to time.
(d)In the absence of such Trade and Payments Agreement the funds accumulating on the Indo-Hungarian Credit Repayment Account shall
be utilised for purchasing Indian goods for export to Hungary. The list of goods to be exported will be mutually agreed upon between
the two Governments.
(e)In the absence of Trade and Payments Agreement, the funds accumulating on the Indo-Hungarian Credit Repayment Account may be considered
by the Hungarian Government for investment in Government of India treasury Bills.
(f)If any difficulty arises in utilising the amounts entered into the above-mentioned accounts, Representatives of the two Governments
shall meet immediately at the request of either Government to overcome these difficulties and to agree upon the ways and means of
utilising the outstanding amount as soon as possible but not later than 90 days counted from the date of the request.
Article 10
In case of a change in the gold parity of Indian rupees (one Indian rupee contains 0.118516 gramme of fine gold), the amount of unutilised
credit, the unpaid advances, the value of unfulfilled deliveries of the contracts and the unpaid part of the value of the delivered
consignments under this Agreement, the value of import licences, invoices, bank guarantees and any other documents referring to contract
under this Agreement, the balance in the Credit Accounts established under Article 7 as well as the balance in the Indo-Hungarian
Credit Repayment Account opened under para (b) of Article 9, shall be adjusted as of the date when the change takes place in proportion
to the change in the gold parity:
Article 11
Payments relating to technical assistance, project work and other services in connection with the setting up of the projects/programmes
envisaged in Article 1 shall not be drawn upon the above-mentioned credit but shall be effected by the Indian Partner in accordance
with the Trade and Payments Agreement in force at the time.
Article 12
The National Bank of Hungary and the Government of India (Ministry of Finance) as also the Reserve Bank of India shall mutually agree
upon all the necessary financial and banking procedures for putting into effect the present Agreement.
Article 13
Both Governments undertake to do their best to enable the conclusion of the contracts as early as possible and for their proper realisation.
Article 14
In order to facilitate a smooth implementation and full realisation of this Agreement both the Governments shall consult each other.
For such consultations, if necessary, a meeting of the representatives of both Governments shall be convened at the request of either
Government at any time as soon as possible alternatively in Budapest and New Delhi.
In case of disputes between the Hungarian supplier and the Indian importer in respect of their contracts concluded under this Agreement,
the differences shall be settled as per provisions made in the relevant contracts.
Article 15
The present Agreement shall come into force on the date of its signature and shall remain in force until all obligations of both Contracting
Parties arising from its implementation will have been fulfilled.
DONE and signed in Budapest, on the l5th of June, 1966 in two originals in English, both texts being equally authentic.
For the Government of India
SD/-
N. R. REDDY
Leader of the Indian Delegation.
For the Government of the Hungarian People’s Republic
Sd /-
Dr. L. UJHAZY
Leader of the Hungarian Delegation.
APPENDIX
INDICATIVE LIST OF SUPPLY POSSIBILITIES FROM HUNGARY
UNDER SUPPLIER’S CREDIT
Seamless Steel Tube Mills.
Plant for Manufacturing Gas Cylinders.
Medium Ore Dressing and Recovery Plants.
Integrated Electric bulbs and fluorescent tubes manufacturing factory.
Gas Generating Plant.
Major sub-station equipment and switch-gears, circuit breakers, measuring and power transformers.
Steel Forging Plant.
Any other projects unit may be added to this list by mutual consultations.
