ADOPTED: Done at Stockholm on 19 February 1974

REFERENCE: ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION, 1974

ENTERED INTO FORCE: 5 October 1976

DEPOSITARY: Sweden

SECRETARY: Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs

IMPLEMENTATION

ENTRY INTO FORCE

Article XIV

This Convention shall enter into force six months from the date on which all the Contracting States have notified the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs that the constitutional measures necessary for the entry into force of the Convention have been implemented. The Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs shall notify the other Contracting States of the receipt of such communications.

Article XV

Actions or cases relevant to this Convention, which are pending before a Court or an Administrative Authority on the date when this Convention enters into force, shall be dealt with and judged according to provisions previously in force.

DENUNCIATION

Article XVI

Any Contracting State wishing to denounce this Convention shall give notice of its intention in writing to the Swedish Government, which shall forthwith inform the other Contracting States of the denunciation and of the date on which notice was received.

The denunciation shall take effect twelve months from the date on which the Swedish Government received such notification or on such later date as may be indicated in the notice of denunciation.