ADOPTED: Done in Quito on 22 July 1983

ENTERED INTO FORCE: 20 May 1987

DEPOSITARY: SPREP

SECRETARY: UNEP

IMPLEMENTATION

ACCESSION

Article IX

This Protocol shall be open for accession by any State bordering the South-East Pacific.

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

ENTRY INTO FORCE

Article V

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.

SCOPE OF THE PROTOCOL

Article VI

Once this Additional Protocol enters into force, it shall form an integral part of the Agreement on Regional Co-operation in Combating Pollution of the South-East Pacific by Hydrocarbons or Other Harmful Substances in Cases of Emergency.

DENUNCIATION

Article VII

This 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 one hundred and eighty days after the date of the said notification.

RESERVATIONS

Article X

No reservations concerning this Agreement may be entered.

AMENDMENTS

Article XVI

This 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 after the third instrument of ratification has been deposited with the Executive Secretariat.