Energy Charter Treaty

36 In adopting the European Energy Charter Ministers or their representatives record that the following understanding has been reached: The representatives of the Signatories understand that in the context of the European Energy Charter, the principle of non-discrimination means Most- Favoured-Nation Treatment as a minimum standard. National Treatment may be agreed to in provisions of the Basic Agreement and/or Protocols. The original of this Concluding Document, drawn up in English, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish texts, will be transmitted to the Government of the Kingdom of The Netherlands, which will retain it in its archives. Each of the Signatories will receive from the Government of the Kingdom of The Netherlands a true copy of the Concluding Document. Done at The Hague on the seventeenth day of December in the year one thousand nine hundred and ninety-one.