Article 7 Modus operandi and rules of procedure The Commission shall issue rules of procedure. It shall be free in determining its strategies and modi operandi. Article 8 Cooperation The Commission shall cooperate with the Federal Agency for the Prevention of Torture. It may use staff and equipment together with the Federal Agency. The details shall be regulated by an administrative agreement. Article 9 Funding (1) The sharing of the costs for the Commission shall be effected in accordance with the Königstein Key. (2) The funding shall be effected in the shape of subsidies being provided to the Centre for Criminology40. The pro rata amounts shall become due in the course of each respective accounting year in two instalments on 31 May and 30 November in accordance with the valuations of the budget plan. The staffing and material expenditure shall be advanced by the Hessian Ministry of Justice, for Integration and European Affairs. Article 10 Term, termination (1) The present Treaty shall be concluded for an indefinite period; it may be terminated by each Land by written declaration to the other Länder with a termination period of one year as per the end of a calendar year. (2) The effectiveness of the Treaty between the other Länder shall not be affected by the resignation of a Land therefrom. (3) If a Land effectively terminates as per the end of a calendar year, the cost distribution between the remaining Länder shall be calculated in accordance with the correspondinglyadjusted Königstein Key. Article 11 Entry into force The present Treaty shall require ratification. It shall enter into force on the first of the month following the month in which the last ratification certificate of the Länder concluding the present Treaty is received by the Hessian Ministry of Justice, for Integration and European Affairs. The Hessian State Chancellery shall inform the other Länder involved of the time when the last ratification certificate was deposited. Dresden, 25 June 2009 40 The Länder agree that the subsidies for the Commission are not counted in the calculation of cuts in the budget valuations based on the resolution of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Länder of 30 March 2006. 110