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39. International Tropical Timber Agreement, 1994

Geneva, 26 January 1994

 

Entry into force: provisionally on 1 January 1997, in accordance with article 41 (3)1.
Registration: 1 January 1997, No. 33484.
Status: Signatories: 49 ,Parties: 61.
Text: United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1955, p. 81 and depositary notification C.N.89.1995.TREATIES-2 of 22 May 1995 (procès-verbal of rectification of the the Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish authentic texts).  

Note: The Agreement was adopted on 26 January 1994 at Geneva by the United Nations Conference on Tropical Timber, 1993. It is the successor agreement to the International Tropical Timber Agreement, 1983, which expired on 31 March 1994. It was opened for signature at United Nations Headquarters, from 1 April 1994 until one month after the date of its entry into force, by Governments invited to the United Nations Conference for the Negotiation of a Successor Agreement to the International Tropical Timber Agreement, 1983, in accordance with article 38 (1). Subsequently, the International Tropical Timber Council, at its twenty-second session, held in Bolivia, from 21 to 29 May 1997, by Decision 2 (XXII) dated 23 May 1997, established the conditions for accession to the Agreement and decided that the time limit for the deposit of instruments of accession shall be the duration of the Agreement.

Further, the International Tropical Timber Council took the following decisions:
Date of decision:  Subject: 
30 May 2000  Extension of the Agreement for a period of three years with effect from 1 January 2001 i.e, until 31 December 2003. 
4 Nov 2002  Extension of the Agreement for a period of three years with effect from 1 January 2004 i.e, until 31 December 2006. 
6-11 Nov 2006  Extension of the Agreement until the provisional or definitive entry into force of the International Tropical Timber Agreement, 2006. 

 

 

PARTICIPANTS

Participant  Signature  Provisional application (n)  Ratification, Accession (a), Acceptance (A), Approval (AA), Definitive signature (s) 
Australia      2 Feb 1996 s 
Austria  13 May 1996    16 May 1997 
Belgium  13 May 1996  13 May 1996 n   
Bolivia  17 Aug 1995    17 Aug 1995 
Brazil  13 Dec 1996    28 Nov 1997 
Cambodia  3 Feb 1995    3 Feb 1995 A 
Cameroon  22 Dec 1994  31 Aug 1995 n   
Canada  3 May 1995    23 May 1996 
Central African Republic    23 May 1997 n   
China  22 Feb 1996    31 Jul 1996 AA 
Colombia  8 Nov 1995  9 Oct 1996 n  16 Aug 1999 
Congo  22 Jun 1994  25 Oct 1995 n   
Côte d'Ivoire  9 Sep 1996  9 Sep 1996 n  31 Jan 1997 
Democratic Republic of the Congo  17 Dec 1996  27 Mar 1997 n   
Denmark  13 May 1996    13 May 1996 
Ecuador  1 Jun 1994    6 Sep 1995 
Egypt  8 Nov 1994  15 May 1996 n  13 Apr 2000 
European Community  13 May 1996  13 May 1996 n   
Fiji  27 Jan 1995  27 Jan 1995 n   
Finland  13 May 1996  13 May 1996 n   
France  13 May 1996  28 Oct 1996 n  17 Aug 2006 AA 
Gabon  27 May 1994  2 Aug 1995 n   
Germany  30 Aug 1995  30 Aug 1995 n   
Ghana  12 Jul 1995    28 Aug 1995 
Greece  13 May 1996    13 Oct 1997 
Guatemala      3 May 2001 a 
Guyana  13 Sep 1996    27 Aug 1997 
Honduras  9 May 1995  2 Nov 1995 n   
India  17 Sep 1996    17 Oct 1996 
Indonesia  21 Apr 1994    17 Feb 1995 
Ireland  14 May 1996    18 Aug 2000 
Italy  7 May 1996    25 Jun 1998 
Japan  13 Dec 1994  13 Dec 1994 n  9 May 1995 A 
Liberia      9 Dec 1994 s 
Luxembourg  13 May 1996  13 May 1996 n   
Malaysia  14 Feb 1995    1 Mar 1995 
Mexico      11 Mar 2004 a 
Myanmar  6 Jul 1995    31 Jan 1996 
Nepal    23 May 1997 n   
Netherlands2  6 Jul 1995  6 Jul 1995 n   
New Zealand      6 Jun 1995 s 
Nigeria      28 Feb 2002 a 
Norway  25 Jan 1995    1 Feb 1995 
Panama  22 Jun 1994  4 May 1995 n  4 Apr 1996 
Papua New Guinea  28 Aug 1995  28 Aug 1995 n  13 May 1996 
Peru  29 Aug 1994  1 Jan 1997 n  21 Sep 1995 
Philippines  29 Sep 1995  26 Feb 1996 n   
Poland      19 Dec 2006 a 
Portugal  13 May 1996    4 Nov 1999 
Republic of Korea  12 Sep 1995    12 Sep 1995 
Spain  12 Jan 1996  12 Jan 1996 n  15 Jan 1997 
Suriname      24 Aug 1998 a 
Sweden  13 May 1996    13 May 1996 
Switzerland  29 Aug 1995    10 Jun 1996 
Thailand  10 Apr 1996    25 Jul 1996 
Togo  12 Jul 1994    4 Oct 1995 A 
Trinidad and Tobago      29 Dec 1998 a 
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland  13 May 1996  13 May 1996 n   
United States of America  1 Jul 1994    14 Nov 1996 A 
Vanuatu      19 May 2000 a 
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)  4 Oct 1995    2 Mar 1998 
 

 

DECLARATIONS

Declarations and Reservations

(Unless otherwise indicated, the declarations and reservations were made upon ratification, accession, acceptance,

approval or definitive signature.)

European Community

Declaration:

[Same declaration, mutatis mutandis, as the

one made by Italy.]

Italy

Upon signature:

Declaration:

"Italy interprets the terms of ITTA 1994 as follows:

a) unless the scope of the agreement is changed pursuant to article 35, the agreement shall refer solely to tropical timber and tropical forests;

b) any financial contribution other than the contribution to the administrative budget provided for in article 19 shall be entirely voluntary."

 

 

NOTES

1. The conditions required under paragraphs 1 and 2 of article 56 of the Agreement not having been fulfilled, the Secretary-General convened on 13 September 1996 a meeting of the Governments and intergovernmental organization which had deposited instruments of ratification, acceptance or approval, or signed the Agreement definitively or had notified the provisional application of the Agreement, in accordance with its article 41 (3). At this meeting it was decided to put the Agreement into force provisionally and in whole among them as of 1 January 1997. It was also decided that the Governments of Bolivia, Liberia, Norway, Peru and Togo (which did not participate in the meeting) could notify to the Secretary-General their acceptance of the above decision and in the event of such notification, they would be deemed to apply the Agreement provisionally as of 1 January 1997. Subsequently, Peru and Norway notified the Secretary-General of their acceptance.

2. For the Kingdom in Europe.