The Ratification of Maritime Conventions
Chapter I.3.140
(STOCKHOLM AGREEMENT, 1996) AGREEMENT CONCERNING SPECIFIC STABILITY REQUIREMENTS FOR RO-RO PASSENGER SHIPS UNDERTAKING REGULAR SCHEDULED INTERNATIONAL VOYAGES BETWEEN OR TO OR FROM DESIGNATED PORTS IN NORTH-WEST EUROPE AND THE BALTIC SEA, 1996
ADOPTED: Done at London, 1 July 1996
REFERENCE: Stockholm Agreement, 1996
ENTERED INTO FORCE: 1 April 1997
DEPOSITARY: IMO, London
SECRETARY: IMO, London
IMPLEMENTATION
SIGNATURE, RATIFICATION, ACCEPTANCE, APPROVAL AND ACCESSION
Article VII
1. The present Agreement shall be open for signature at the Headquarters of the Organization from 1 July until 30 September 1996, and shall thereafter remain open for accession. States may become parties to the present Agreement by:
- (a) signature without reservation as to ratification, acceptance or approval, or
- (b) signature subject to ratification, acceptance or approval, followed by ratification, acceptance or approval, or
- (c) accession.
2. Ratification, acceptance, approval or accession shall be effected by the deposit of an instrument to that effect with the Secretary-General.
3. The Secretary-General shall inform the Governments of all States which have signed the present Agreement or acceded to it of any signature or of the deposit of any instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession and the date of its deposit. When the conditions for entry into force have been met, the Secretary-General shall inform the Governments of these States of the date of entry into force of the Agreement.
ENTRY INTO FORCE
Article VIII
1. The present Agreement shall be notified by the Government of Sweden to the Secretary-General. It shall enter into force:
- (a) twelve months after the date of notification to the Secretary-General, or
- (b) on the date on which not fewer than five States have become parties in accordance with Article 7,
whichever is the later.
2. Any instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession deposited after the date on which the present Agreement enters into force shall take effect thirty days after the date of deposit.
DENUNCIATION
Article IX
1. Any Contracting Government may, by written notification addressed to the Secretary-General, denounce the present Agreement.
2. A denunciation shall take effect twelve months after its receipt by the Secretary-General.