Article 29. Amendment of the Convention or Protocols
| Release date | 08/11/2006 |
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| Geographical coverage | Mondiale |
| Keywords | texte de la convention |
1. Amendments to this Convention may be proposed by any Contracting Party. Amendments to any protocol may be proposed by any Party to that protocol.
2. Amendments to this Convention shall be adopted at a meeting of
the Conference of the Parties. Amendments to any protocol shall be
adopted at a meeting of the Parties to the Protocol in question. The
text of any proposed amendment to this Convention or to any protocol,
except as may otherwise be provided in such protocol, shall be
communicated to the Parties to the instrument in question by the
secretariat at least six months before the meeting at which it is
proposed for adoption. The secretariat shall also communicate proposed
amendments to the signatories to this Convention for information.
3. The Parties shall make every effort to reach agreement on any
proposed amendment to this Convention or to any protocol by consensus.
If all efforts at consensus have been exhausted, and no agreement
reached, the amendment shall as a last resort be adopted by a two-third
majority vote of the Parties to the instrument in question present and
voting at the meeting, and shall be submitted by the Depositary to all
Parties for ratification, acceptance or approval.
4. Ratification, acceptance or approval of amendments shall be
notified to the Depositary in writing. Amendments adopted in accordance
with paragraph 3 above shall enter into force among Parties having
accepted them on the ninetieth day after the deposit of instruments of
ratification, acceptance or approval by at least two thirds of the
Contracting Parties to this Convention or of the Parties to the protocol
concerned, except as may otherwise be provided in such protocol.
Thereafter the amendments shall enter into force for any other Party on
the ninetieth day after that Party deposits its instrument of
ratification, acceptance or approval of the amendments.
5. For the purposes of this Article, "Parties present and voting"
means Parties present and casting an affirmative or negative vote.