The Ratification of Maritime Conventions
Chapter I.2.288
SECOND PROTOCOL CONFERRING ON THE COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES CERTAIN POWERS TO INTERPRET THE 1980 CONVENTION ON THE LAW APPLICABLE TO CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS, 1988
ADOPTED: Done in Brussels, 19 December 1988
REFERENCE: OJEC, 1989 L48/17
ENTERED INTO FORCE: 1 August 2004
DEPOSITARY: EEC Council, Brussels
SECRETARY: EEC Council, Brussels
IMPLEMENTATION
SIGNATURE AND RATIFICATION
Article II
This Protocol shall be subject to ratification by the Signatory States. The instruments of ratification shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the Council of the European Communities.
ENTRY INTO FORCE
Article III
This Protocol shall enter into force on the first day of the third month following the deposit of the instrument of ratification of the last Signatory State to complete that formality.
DECLARATIONS AND RESERVATIONS
Denmark
The Protocol is not applicable to the Faroe Islands and Greenland.
The Netherlands
The Protocol also applies to the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba.