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who has not as of that closing date filed an application with the Board. To be designated for the written examination a candidate, as of the date of the examination, shall have been a citizen of the United States for at least 71⁄2 years and shall be at least 21 but under 31 years of age, except that an applicant who has been awarded a bachelor's degree by a college or university, or has completed successfully his junior year at a college or university, may qualify as to age if at least 20 but under 31 years of age.

(c) Content. The written examination is designed to permit the Board to test the candidate's intelligence and the breadth and quality of his knowledge and understanding. It will consist of four parts: (1) A general ability test, (2) an English expression test, (3) a general background test, and (4) three special optional tests: Option A-History, Government, Social Sciences, and Public Affairs; Option B—Administration; Option C-Economics and Commerce; one of which must be selected by the candidate except that candidates for the United States Information Agency will take Option A only.

(d) Grading. The several parts of the written examination are weighted in accordance with the rules laid down by the Board of Examiners.

§ 501.7 Oral examination.

The Board of Examiners for the Foreign Service has established the following rules regarding the oral examination:

(a) When and where given. The oral examination will be given throughout the year at Washington and periodically in selected cities in the United States and at selected Foreign Service posts abroad.

(b) Eligibility. If a candidate's weighted average on the four parts of the written examination is 70 or higher, he will be eligible to take the oral examination. Candidates eligible for the oral examination will be given an opportunity and will be required to take the oral examination within 9 months after the date of the written examination. If a candidate fails to present himself for the oral examination on an agreed date within the 9-month period, his candidacy will automatically terminate except that time spent outside the United States and its territories for reasons acceptable to the Board of Examiners will not be counted against the 9-month period.

(c) Examining process. The oral examination will be given by a panel of deputy examiners selected by the Board of Examiners from a roster of Foreign Service officers, Foreign Service information officers, officers from the Department of State, the U.S. Information Agency and other Government agencies, and qualified private citizens who by prior service as members of selection boards or through other appropriate activities have demonstrated special qualifications for this work. The examination will be conducted in the light of all available information concerning the candidate and will be designed to determine his competence to perform the work of a Foreign Service information officer at home and abroad, his potential for growth in the Service, and his suitability to serve as a representative of the United States abroad. Panels examining candidates for the Department of State will be chaired by a Foreign Service officer with the Department. Panels examining candidates for the United States Information Agency will be chaired by an officer from the Agency's Foreign Service. Determinations of duly constituted panels of deputy examiners are final, unless modified by specific action of the Board of Examiners for the Foreign Service.

(d) Grading. Candidates appearing for the oral examination will be graded "recommended for class 8," "recommended for class 7," or "not recommended." If recommended, the panel will assign a grade which will determine the candidate's numerical standing on the rankorder register of eligibles.

§ 501.8 Medical examination.

The Board of Examiners for the Foreign Service has established the following rules regarding the medical examination of candidates. (Regulations regarding medical examination of dependents are contained in the Foreign Affairs Manual available at the Department of State and U.S. Information Agency.)

(a) Eligibility. A candidate graded "recommended" on the oral examination will be eligible for the physical examination.

(b) Purpose. The medical examination is designed to determine the candidate's physical fitness to perform the duties of a Foreign Service information officer on a worldwide basis and to determine the presence of any physical, nervous, or mental disease or defect of such a nature

as to make it unlikely that he would become a satisfactory officer. The Executive Director of the Board of Examiners for the Foreign Service, with the concurrence of the Director, Medical Division, may make such exceptions to these physical requirements as are in the interest of the Service. All such exceptions shall be reported to the Board of Examiners for the Foreign Service at its next meeting.

(c) Conduct of examination. The medical examination will be conducted either by medical officers of the Armed Forces, the Public Health Service, the Department, accredited colleges and universities, or, with the approval of the Board of Examiners, by private physicians.

(d) Determination. The Board of Examiners will determine on the basis of the report of the physician(s) who conducted the medical examination whether the candidate has met the standards set forth in paragraph (b) in this section.

§ 501.9 Certification for appointment.

(a) No person will be certified as eligible for appointment as a Foreign Service information officer of class 8 unless he is at least 21 years of age, has been a citizen of the United States for at least 10 years, and, if married, is married to a citizen of the United States. A person shall be certified as eligible for direct appointment to class 7 if in addition to meeting these specifications he is at least 23 years old and has a record of 2 years of graduate training, employment, military service, or Peace Corps service which clearly demonstrates ability and special skills for which there is a need in the Foreign Service. Recommended candidates who meet these requirements, who pass their medical examinations, and who, on the basis of investigation, are found to be loyal to the Government of the United States and personally suitable to represent it abroad, will have their names placed on the rank-order register for class 8 appointments or, if deemed appropriate by the Board of Examiners in the light of their age and education or employment record, on the rank-order register for class 7 appointments, and they will be certified for appointment, in accordance with the needs of the Service, in the order of their standing on their respective registers.

(b) Separate registers for the Department of State candidates will be maintained according to the optional portions

of the examination. Successful candidates for the U.S. Information Agency will have their names placed on a separate rank-order register and appointments will be made according to the needs of the Agency. Postponement of entrance on duty for required active military service, civilian Government service abroad, or Peace Corps volunteer service will be authorized. A candidate may be certified for appointment to class 7 or 8 without first having passed an examination in a foreign language, but his appointment will be subject to the condition that he may not receive more than one promotion unless, within a specified period of time, he achieves adequate proficiency in a foreign language.

§ 501.10 Leave-without-pay appoint

ments.

In certain specified cases, leavewithout-pay offers of appointment as Foreign Service Reserve officers may be made to candidates who have established their eligibility when such appointments will insure that well-qualified candidates will not be lost to the Service because they wish to continue advanced graduate studies that will improve their qualifications as future Foreign Service information officers. When they become available for duty they will be nominated for regular Foreign Service information officer appointments.

§ 501.11 Termination of eligibility.

(a) Candidates who have qualified but have not been appointed because of lack of vacancies will be dropped from the rank-order register 30 months after the date of the written examination: Provided, however, That reasonable time spent in civilian Government service abroad, including service as a Peace Corps volunteer or in required active military service subsequent to establishing eligibility for appointment will not be counted in the 30-month period.

(b) The Chairman of the Board of Examiners may extend the eligibility period when such extension is in his judgment justified in the interests of the Service. He shall report to the Board of Examiners the extensions he has approved.

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502.5

Review and appeal.

502.6

502.7 502.8

§ 501.13 Lateral entry appointment of Foreign Service information officers to Classes 1 through 6.

Appointments of Foreign Service information officers, under the provisions of Public Law 90-494 and section 517 of the Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended, are governed by this section.

(a) The lateral entry program is a means by which the intake of Foreign Service information officers through the junior Foreign Service information officer examination can be supplemented to meet total requirements for Foreign Service information officers. Lateral entry appointments are made only to Classes 1 through 6, insuring retention of the career principle of entry primarily at Classes 7 and 8 through competitive examination. Additional officers will be added to the Foreign Service Information Officer Corps through lateral entry on the basis of established service need for each class by functional specialty or general manpower requirements.

(b) The great majority of lateral entrants will be drawn from officers of the U.S. Information Agency of proven ability who possess high potential for advancement, or similar personnel of other foreign affairs agencies who may be appointed based on agreements between the Agency and those agencies.

(c) The need for other lateral entrants in Classes 1 through 6 is met by appointing applicants who are officers or former officers of other Federal Government agencies. Principally, these will be persons possessing skills and abilities in short supply in the Agency's Foreign Service appointed to meet rapidly changing requirements. On a limited and highly selective basis, however, other persons may be appointed who have demonstrated outstanding qualities of leadership and who possess capabilities, insights, techniques, experiences, and differences of outlook which would serve to enrich and stimulate the Agency's Foreign Service and enable them to perform effectively in assignments both abroad and in the Agency.

Substantive criteria.

History and background.

Miscellaneous; coordination with U.S.
Customs Bureau.

AUTHORITY: The provisions of this Part 502 are issued under 5 U.S.C. 301, 19 U.S.C. 2051, 2052, 22 U.S.C. 1431 et seq., E.O. 11311; 3 CFR, 1966 Comp.

SOURCE: The provisions of this Part 502 appear at 32 F.R. 10352, July 14, 1967, unless otherwise noted.

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(a) The "Audio-Visual Agreement" (short title), also known as the "Beirut Agreement of 1948", is a multi-nation treaty with the formal title, "Agreement for Facilitating the International Circulation of Visual and Auditory Materials of an Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Character".1 United States acceptance of this treaty was proclaimed by President Johnson and deposited with the United Nations on October 14, 1966, and formal operations by the United States under the Agreement commenced January 12, 1967. Initial implementation of the treaty by the United States was effected by Public Law 89-634 of October 8, 1966, and Executive Order 11311 of October 14, 1966, and it is further implemented by these regulations. The U.S. Information Agency has been designated by the President to carry out the Agreement for the United States. Export certification, import certificate authentication, rulings, and information, respecting the Agreement may be obtained from the International Communications Media Staff (IMV/C), U.S. Information Agency, Washington, D.C. 20547.

(b) This treaty facilitates the free flow of educational audio-visual materials between nations, by eliminating import duties, import licenses, special taxes, quantitative restrictions and other restraints and costs, by shipment under an international certificate. Each government may issue such certificates as to materials for which basic ownership is in

117 U.S.T. 1578 (T.I.A.S. 6116).

said country. The material must be primarily educational as to its nature and usefulness (see § 502.6(a) (3)). The term "audio-visual" is defined as embracing the categories exemplified by film prints, motion picture film, filmstrips, videotape, sound recordings, sound/picture recordings, models, charts, posters, maps, globes, slides, and the like.

§ 502.2 Implementing statute and Executive Order.

(a) Public Law 89-634 (10/8/66) amends Schedule 8 of the Tariff Schedules of the United States, as follows:

(1) After the heading to Part 6, insert: "Part 6 Headnote:

"1. No article shall be exempted from duty under item 870.30 unless a Federal agency or agencies designated by the President determines that such article is visual or auditory material of an educational, scientific, or cultural character within the meaning of the Agreement for Facilitating the International Circulation of Visual and Auditory Materials of an Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Character. Whenever the President determines that there is or may be profit-making exhibition or use of articles described in item 870.30 which interferes significantly threatens to interfere significantly) with domestic production of similar articles, he may prescribe regulations imposing restrictions on the entry of such foreign articles to insure that they will be exhibited or used only for nonprofitmaking purposes."

(or

(2) At the end of Part 6, add this new item:

"870.30 Developed photographic film, including motion-picture film on which pictures or sound and pictures have been recorded; photographic slides; transparencies; sound recordings; recorded videotape; models; charts; maps; globes; and posters; all of the foregoing which are determined to be visual or auditory materials in accordance with headnote 1 of this part Rates of Duty (1), Free; Rates of Duty (2), Free."

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(b) Executive Order 11311, "Carrying out Provisions of the Beirut Agreement of 1948 Relating to Audio-visual Materials" provides:

"By virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States, including the provisions of the Joint Resolution of October 8, 1966, Public Law 89-634, and section 301 of Title 3 of the United States Code, I hereby order and proclaim that

"Pursuant to the 'Agreement for Facilitating the International Circulation of Visual and Auditory Materials of an Educational, Scientific and Cultural Character', made at Beirut in 1948, the Joint Resolution, and headnote 1 to schedule 8, part 6 of the Tariff Schedules of the United States, the United States Information Agency is hereby des

ignated as the agency to carry out the provisions of the Agreement and related protocol, and to make any determinations and to prescribe any regulations required by headnote 1."

(c) Public Law 89-634 further provides:

"It shall be the duty of the Federal agency or agencies so designated to take appropriate measures for the carrying out of the provisions of the Agreement including the issuance of regulations.

"SEC. 2. Agencies of the Federal Government are authorized to furnish facilities and personnel for the purpose of assisting the agency or agencies designated by the President in carrying out the provisions of the Agreement."

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(a) Applicant: An "Applicant” is (1) the U.S. holder of “basic rights” in materials he submits for export certification, (2) the holder of a foreign certificate or his exporter or U.S. importer or the agent of any of them as to materials proposed for import to the United States, or (3) the U.S. consignee of materials proposed for U.S. import under a foreign certificate. Any "Applicant" may request USIA to certify materials for export or to authenticate a foreign certificate for import of materials.

(b) Imports: Educational/informational audio-visual materials, as identified in the Substantive Criteria of the regulations in this part, are permitted duty-free entry into the United States upon authentication by the United States Information Agency of the Certificate of the Government of the country wherein basic ownership is held, or of the certificate of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), attesting the educational/ informational character of such materials within the meaning of the "Agreement", and compliance with applicable Customs entry procedures (see 19 CFR 10.121).

(c) In order to establish qualification for entry into the United States under the provisions of Tariff Item 870.30, the Applicant shall forward the foreign certificate directly to:

International Communications Media Staff (IMV/C), U.S. Information Agency, Washington, D.C. 20547.

(d) Upon affirmative determination by the U.S. Information Agency as to the qualification of the certified articles for such entry, the Applicant will be advised

of the determination, and be provided with an authenticating document for presentation with the related Customs documentation at the Port of Entry, for duty-free clearance under Item 870.30.

(e) If for any reason the U.S. Information Agency is unable to accept and authenticate a foreign certificate, the Applicant will be promptly so notified, together with either (1) request for additional information or (2) the reasons why the certificate cannot be accepted. Qualification or non-qualification of material for entry under Tariff Item 870.30 does not affect its eligibility for entry under other laws of the United States.

(f) Exports: U.S. educational/informational audio-visual materials, as identified in the Substantive Criteria of these Regulations, may, if eligible as provided herein, be certified by the U.S. Information Agency as being "of international educational character," and thus entitled to special import privileges such as duty-free entry abroad in "Beirut countries" (see § 502.7 on history and background, for a list of the countries where there is formal and informal participation under the Beirut Agreement).

(g) For general information and application forms, Applicants should write to:

International Communications Media Staff (IMV/C), U.S. Information Agency, Washington, D.C. 20547.

Applicants seeking certification of materials, should send to the same office. the following:

(1) A completed Application for each subject or series to be certified.

(2) A notarized document evidencing Applicant's basic ownership or right in the materials.

(3) A description of the content of the material (where appropriate and feasible attachments should be included, such as narrations, captions, advertising leaflets. catalogs, etc.; indicate clearly if these attachments are to be returned to the Applicant).

(4) Copies or examples of the materials, if feasible; same to be transmitted prepaid, and will be returned promptly (the question can be discussed with the Agency preliminary if transmittal seems infeasible due to bulk, fragility or large quantities, or because excessive cost would be involved; one item may serve as an example of a series, or the Agency

may have reviewed the material previously in another context).

(h) It is anticipated that action of the Agency on a certification request will usually take about 2 weeks. If a longer interval is expected, the Agency will send the Applicant an interim acknowledgment indicating the action time estimated.

(i) Upon certification, the Applicant will receive the original Certificate and four signed copies. The Applicant should retain the original, so that he may reproduce it by photocopying, to service his future needs in connection with subsequent shipments of identical copies of the same material. A copy of the Certificate should accompany each shipment abroad, but further instructions may be available from the foreign importer.

(j) If for any reason the Agency is unable to certify the materials, the Applicant will be promptly so notified, together with either (1) a request for additional information or (2) the reasons why the certificate cannot be issued. Qualification or non-qualification of material under the Beirut Agreement does not affect the right of export, nor the right of foreign import under other laws. § 502.4 Consultation of experts.

(a) The Chief Attestation Officer of the United States (International Communications Media Staff, U.S.I.A.— IMV/C) and the Attestation Officers under his supervision will routinely and continuously receive Agency policy and legal guidance, and protests of Applicants will be reviewed by the Review Board and by the Agency's Director as provided below. The Chief Attestation Officer and his staff will regularly consult experts throughout the Agency and throughout the Government whenever the examination of materials (for certification or authentication) indicates the desirability of substantive expertise in making a fair evaluation. Whenever appropriate, and whenever requested by an Applicant, experts who have been consulted will be available for discussions with the Applicant.

(b) In addition to such ad hoc consultation of experts, a regular group of advisors exists as a standing committee to advise this program, both as to broad policy and to evaluate specific materials; this is the Interdepartmental Committee on Visual and Auditory Materials for Distribution Abroad, and its Attestation Subcommittee. The Committee is com

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