ADOPTED: Done at Paipa 21 September 1989

ENTERED INTO FORCE: 23 January 1995

DEPOSITARY: SPREP

SECRETARY: UNEP

IMPLEMENTATION

ACCESSION

Article XVIII

This Protocol shall be open for accession by any coastal state in the South-East Pacific on the unanimous invitation of the High Contracting Parties.

Accession shall be effected by the deposit of the relevant instrument with the Executive Secretariat, which shall communicate it to the High Contracting Parties.

This Protocol shall, for the State acceding to it, enter into force 60 days after the deposit of the relevant instrument.

ENTRY INTO FORCE

Article XV

This Protocol shall enter into force sixty days after the third instrument of ratification has been deposited with the General Secretariat of the Permanent Commission of the South Pacific.

DENUNCIATION

Article XVI

The present Protocol may be denounced by any of the High Contracting Parties after it has been in force for two years for the High Contracting Party denouncing it.

Such denunciation shall be effected by means of written notification to the Executive Secretariat, which shall communicate it forthwith to the High Contracting Parties.

The denunciation shall take effect 180 days after the date of such notification.

RESERVATIONS

Article XIX

No reservations concerning the present Protocol may be entered.

AMENDMENTS

Article XVII

The present Protocol may be amended only with the unanimous agreement of the High Contracting Parties. Amendments shall be subject to ratification and shall enter into force on the date of deposit of the third instrument of ratification with the Executive Secretariat.