The Ratification of Maritime Conventions
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PROTOCOL OF 1999 CONCERNING POLLUTION FROM LAND-BASED SOURCES AND ACTIVITIES TO THE CONVENTION FOR THE PROTECTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT OF THE WIDER CARIBBEAN REGION, 1983
ADOPTED: Done at Oranjestad, Aruba on 6 October 1999
ENTERED INTO FORCE: 13 August 2010
DEPOSITARY: Government of Colombia
SECRETARY: United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
IMPLEMENTATION
SIGNATURE, RATIFICATION, ACCEPTANCE, APPROVAL, ACCESSION
Article XIX
This Protocol shall be open for signature at Oranjestad, Aruba on 6 October 1999, and at Santa Fe de Bogatá, Republic of Colombia, from 7 October 1999 to 6 October 2000, by any Party to the Convention.
Article XVIII
1. This Protocol, including Annexes I to IV, shall be subject to ratification, acceptance, approval or accession as provided by Articles 26 and 27 of the Convention.
2. In its instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession, any State or regional economic integration organisation may declare that any new annex shall enter into force for it only upon the deposit of its instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession thereto.
3. Following entry into force of this Protocol, any new Contracting Party to this Protocol may, at the time of acceding, declare that such accession does not apply to any annex, other than Annexes I to IV.
ENTRY INTO FORCE
Article XVII
1. Except as provided in paragraphs 2 and 3 below, the adoption and entry into force of new annexes and amendments to annexes to this Protocol shall take place in accordance with paragraphs 2 and 3 of Article 19 of the Convention.
2. The Contracting Parties may, at the time of adoption of any amendment to an Annex, decide by a three-fourths majority vote of the Contracting Parties present and voting, that such amendment is of such importance that it shall enter into force in accordance with paragraphs 5 and 6 of Article 18 of the Convention.
3. With respect to any Contracting party that has made a declaration with respect to new annexes in accordance with Article XVIII, such annex shall enter into force on the thirtieth day after the date of deposit with the Depositary of its instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession with respect to such annexes.