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(2) With regard to its official communications, the Centre shall be accorded by each Contracting State treatment not less favourable than that accorded to other international organizations. Article 24 (1) The Centre, its assets, property and income, and its operations and transactions authorized by this Convention shall be exempt from all taxation and customs duties. The Centre shall also be exempt from liability for the collection or payment of any taxes or customs duties. (2) Except in the case of local nationals, no tax shall be levied on or in respect of expense allowances paid by the Centre to the Chairman or members of the Administrative Council, or on or in respect of salaries, expense allowances or other emoluments paid by the Centre to officials or employees of the Secretariat. (3) No tax shall be levied on or in respect of fees or expense
allowances received by persons acting as conciliators, or arbitrators, or members of a
Committee appointed pursuant to paragraph (3) of Article 52, in proceedings under this
Convention, if the sole jurisdictional basis for such tax is the location of the Centre or
the place where such proceedings are conducted or the place where such fees or allowances
are paid. CHAPTER II Article 25 (1) The jurisdiction of the Centre shall extend to any legal dispute arising directly out of an investment, between a Contracting State (or any constituent subdivision or agency of a Contracting State designated to the Centre by that State) and a national of another Contracting State, which the parties to the dispute consent in writing to submit to the Centre. When the parties have given their consent, no party may withdraw its consent unilaterally. (2) "National of another Contracting State" means:
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