ADOPTED: Done at Brussels, 29 November 1996

REFERENCE: OJ 1997 C 15/10

ENTERED INTO FORCE: 1 October 1998

DEPOSITARY: Secretary-General of the Council of the European Union

SECRETARY: Secretary-General of the Council of the European Union

IMPLEMENTATION

SIGNATURE AND RATIFICATION

Article V

This Convention shall be ratified by the signatory States. The instruments of ratification shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the Council of the European Union.

ENTRY INTO FORCE

Article VI

1. This Convention shall enter into force, as between the States which have ratified it, on the first day of the third month following the deposit of the last instrument of ratification by the Republic of Austria, the Republic of Finland or the Kingdom of Sweden and by one Contracting State which has ratified the Convention on the Law applicable to Contractual Obligations.

2. This Convention shall enter into force for each Contracting State which subsequently ratifies it on the first day of the third month following the deposit of its instrument of ratification.