17.3 The complete tender shall be without alterations, interlineations or erasures, except those to accord with the instructions of any Agenda issued, or as necessary to correct errors made by the tenderer, in which case such corrections shall be initialled by the person or persons signing the tender.
In 1996, China became a member of the Locarno Agreement on Establishing an International Classification for Industrial Designs; and in 1997, China became a member of the Strasbourg Agreement Concerning the International Patent Classification. Besides the above efforts, China participated in the TRIPS negotiations during the Uruguay Round and initialled the Final Act."
The complete tender shall be without alterations, interlineations or erasures, except those to accord with the instructions of any Agenda issued, or as necessary to correct errors made by the tenderer, in which case such corrections shall be initialled by the person or persons signing the tender.