The Ratification of Maritime Conventions
Chapter I.7.413
PROTOCOL ON THE CONTROL OF MARINE TRANSBOUNDARY MOVEMENTS AND DISPOSAL OF HAZARDOUS WASTES AND OTHER WASTES, 1998
ADOPTED: Done in Tehran on 17 March 1998
ENTERED INTO FORCE: 4 September 2005
DEPOSITARY: Government of the State of Kuwait
SECRETARY: Regional Organisation for the Protection of the Marine Environment (ROPME)
IMPLEMENTATION
SIGNATURE, RATIFICATION, ACCEPTANCE, APPROVAL AND ACCESSION
Article XVI
1. This Protocol shall be open for signature in Tehran, the Islamic Republic of Iran from 17 March to 14 June 1998 corresponding to 18 Thulqida 1418 to 19 Safar 1419 of Hejira by any Contracting State to the Convention.
2. This Protocol shall be subject to ratification, acceptance, approval or accession by the Contracting States to the Convention. Instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession shall be deposited with the Government of Kuwait which shall assume the functions of the Depositary in accordance with Article XXX of the Convention.
3. This Protocol shall enter into force on the ninetieth day following the date of deposit of at least five instruments of ratification, acceptance or approval of, or accession to the Protocol by the States as referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article.
4. After the date of deposit of five instruments of ratification, acceptance or approval of, or accession to this Protocol, this Protocol shall enter into force with respect to any State as referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article on the nineteenth day following the date of deposit by that State of the instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession.
AMENDMENT
Article XV
1. The provisions of the Convention relating to any Protocol shall apply to this Protocol.
2. Procedures for amendments to Protocols and their Annexes adopted in accordance with Articles XX and XXI of the Convention shall apply to this Protocol.