The Ratification of Maritime Conventions
Chapter I.7.590
PROTOCOL FOR THE PREVENTION OF POLLUTION OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC REGION BY DUMPING, 1986
ADOPTED: Done in Noumea on 25 November 1986
ENTERED INTO FORCE: 22 August 1990
DEPOSITARY: Director of the South Pacific Bureau for Economic Co-operation (SPEC)
SECRETARY: UNEP
IMPLEMENTATION
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THIS PROTOCOL AND THE CONVENTION
Article XVII
1. The provisions of the Convention relating to its protocols shall apply with respect to the present Protocol.
2. The rules of procedure and the financial rules adopted pursuant to article XXII of the Convention shall apply with respect to this Protocol, unless the Parties to this Protocol agree otherwise.
DECLARATIONS AND RESERVATIONS
France
On depositing its document France expressed the following reservation:
“The Government of the French Republic, in signing the present Convention declares that, insofar as it is concerned, the prescriptions of the aforesaid Convention will not cover wastes and other matter entailing a level of pollution caused by radioactivity to a degree less than that prescribed by the recommendations of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).” (Unofficial translation received from Forum Secretariat.)