ADOPTED: Done at Washington, 18 March 1965

REFERENCE: 575 UNTS 159

UN TREATY NUMBER: I. 8359

ENTERED INTO FORCE: 14 October 1966

DEPOSITARY: International Bank for Reconstruction and Development

SECRETARY: International Centre for Settlement of Disputes

IMPLEMENTATION

RATIFICATION, ACCEPTANCE AND APPROVAL

Article LXVII

This Convention shall be open for signature on behalf of States members of the Bank. It shall also be open for signature on behalf of any other State which is a party to the Statute of the International Court of Justice and which the Administrative Council, by a vote of two-thirds of its members, shall have invited to sign the Convention.

Article LXVIII

(1) This Convention shall be subject to ratification, acceptance or approval by the signatory States in accordance with their respective constitutional procedures.

ENTRY INTO FORCE

Article LXVIII

(2) This Convention shall enter into force thirty days after the date of deposit of the twentieth instrument of ratification, acceptance or approval. It shall enter into force for each State which subsequently deposits its instrument of ratification, acceptance or approval thirty days after the date of such deposit.

Article LXIX

Each Contracting State shall take such legislative or other measures as may be necessary for making the provisions of this Convention effective in its territories.

DENUNCIATION

Article LXX

Any Contracting State may denounce this Convention by written notice to the depositary of this Convention. The denunciation shall take effect six months after receipt of such notice.

AMENDMENTS

Article LXV

Any Contracting State may propose amendment of this Convention. The text of a proposed amendment shall be communicated to the Secretary-General not less than ninety days prior to the meeting of the Administrative Council at which such amendment is to be considered and shall forthwith be transmitted by him to all the members of the Administrative Council.

Article LXVI

(1) If the Administrative Council shall so decide by a majority of two-thirds of its members, the proposed amendment shall be circulated to all Contracting States for ratification, acceptance or approval. Each amendment shall enter into force thirty days after dispatch by the depositary of this Convention of a notification to Contracting States that all Contracting States have ratified, accepted or approved the amendment.

(2) No amendment shall affect the rights and obligations under this Convention of any Contracting State or of any of its constituent subdivisions or agencies, or of any national of such State arising out of consent to the jurisdiction of the Centre given before the date of entry into force of the amendment.

TERRITORIAL APPLICATION

Article LXX

This Convention shall apply to all territories for whose international relations a Contracting State is responsible, except those which are excluded by such State by written notice to the depositary of this Convention either at the time of ratification, acceptance or approval or subsequently.

Article LXXII

Notice by a Contracting State pursuant to Articles LXX or LXXI shall not affect the rights or obligations under this Convention of that State or of any of its constituent subdivisions or agencies or of any national of that State arising out of consent to the jurisdiction of the Centre given by one of them before such notice was received by the depositary.

NOTIFICATIONS

(The following notifications concern classes of disputes considered suitable or unsuitable for submission to the centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes)

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