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43. International Coffee Agreement 2001

London, 28 September 2000

 

Entry into force: provisionally on 1 October 2001 and definitively on 17 May 2005, in accordance with article 45 which reads as follows: "(1) This Agreement shall enter into force definitively on 1 October 2001 if by that date Governments representing at least 15 exporting Members holding at least 70 percent of the votes of the exporting Members and at least 10 importing Members holding at least 70 percent of the votes importing Members, calculated as at 25 September 2001, without reference to possible suspension under the terms of Articles 25 and 42, have deposited instruments of ratification, acceptance or approval. Alternatively, it shall enter into force definitively at any time after 1 October 2001 if it is provisionally in force in accordance with the provisons of paragraph (2) of this Article and these percentage requirements are satisfied by the deposit of instruments of ratification, acceptance or approval. (2) This Agreement may enter into force provisionally on 1 October 2001. For this purpose, a notification by a signatory Government or by any other Contracting Party to the International Coffee Agreement 1994 as extended, containing an undertaking to apply this new Agreement provisionally, in accordance with its constitutional procedures as rapidly as possible, which is recieved by the Secretary-General of the United Nations not later than 25 September 2001, shall be regarded as equal in effect to an instrument of ratification, acceptance or approval. A Government which undertakes to apply this Agreement provisionally, in accordance with its laws and regulations acceptance or approval shall be regarded as a provisional Party thereto until it deposits its instrument of ratification, acceptance or approval or until and including 30 June 2002 whichever is the earlier. The Council may grant an extension of the time within which any Government which is applying this Agreement provisionally may deposit its instrument of ratification, acceptance or approval. (3) If this Agreement has not entered into force definitively or provisionally on 1 October 2001 under the provisions of paragraph (1) or (2) of this Article those Governments which have deposited instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession or made notifications containing an undertaking to apply this Agreement provisionally, in accordance with their laws an regulations, and to seek ratification, acceptance or approval may, by mutual consent, decide that it shall enter into force among themselves. Similarly, if this Agreement has entered into force provisionally but has not entered into force definitively on 31 March 2002, those Governments which have deposited instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession or made the notifications referred to in paragraph (2) of this Article, may, by mutual consent, decide that it shall continue in force provisionally or enter into force definitively among themselves."1.
Registration: 1 October 2001, No. 37769.
Status: Signatories: 35 ,Parties: 69.
Text: United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2161, p. 308.  

Note: At its eighty-second session held in London from 27 to 28 September 2000, the International Coffee Council approved, by Resolution No. 393, the International Coffee Agreement 2001. The Agreement will be open for signature at United Nations Headquarters, from 1 November 2000 until and including 25 September 2001 by Contracting Parties to the International Coffee Agreement 1994 or the International Coffee Agreement 1994 as extended until 30 September 2001, with modifications, by Resolution 384 of the International Coffee Council on 21 July 1999, and Governments invited to the session of the International Coffee Council at which this Agreement was negotiated, in accordance with its article 43. At its ninety-eighth session, held in London on 28 September 2007, the International Coffee Council decided by Resolution No. 432 to extend the International Coffee Agreement 2001 for a period of one year from 1 October 2007, in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (2) of Article 52. However, as soon as the conditions for its definitive or provisional entry into force are met, the new International Coffee Agreement 2007 shall enter into force, thus terminating the period of extension of the International Coffee Agreement 2001.

Further, International Coffee Council took the following decisions:
Date of decision:    Subject: 
28 September  2001  Extension until 31 May 2002 of the period for the deposit of instruments of ratification, acceptance or approval, or notifications of provisional application and establishment of special conditions for accession. 
21 May  2002  Extension to 25 September 2002 of the time-limit for deposit of instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval, notification of provisional application or accession; and extension until 31 May 2003 of the time-limit for deposit of instruments of ratification, acceptance or approval by States applying the Agreement provisionally. 
26 September  2002  Extension to 31 May 2003 of the time-limit for deposit of instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession. 
21 May  2003  Extension to 31 May 2004 of the time-limit for deposit of instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession. 
21 May  2003  Extension to 31 May 2004 of the time-limit for deposit of instruments of ratification, acceptance or approval by States applying the Agreement provisionally 
19 to 21 May  2004  Extension to 31 May 2005 of the time-limit for deposit of instruments of ratification, acceptance or approval or accession. 
    Extension to 31 May 2005 of the time-limit for deposit of instruments of ratification, acceptance or approval by States applying the Agreement provisionally. 
18 to 20 May  2005  Extension to 31 May 2006 of the time-limit for deposit of instruments of ratification, acceptance or approval or accession. 
    Extension to 31 May 2006 of the time-limit for deposit of instruments of ratification, acceptance or approval by States applying the Agreement provisionally. 
22 to 25 May  2006  Extension to 31 May 2007 of the time-limit for the deposit of instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession. 
    Extension to 31 May 2007 of the time-limit for the deposit of instruments of ratification, acceptance or approval by States applying the Agreement provisionally. 
    Establishment of conditions of accession for Timor-Leste. 
24 to 25 May  2007  Extension to 25 September 2007 of the time-limit for the deposit of instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession. 
    Extension to 25 September 2007 of the time-limit for the deposit of instrument of ratification, acceptance or approval by Belgium/Luxembourg which are applying the Agreement provisionally. 
    Extension to 25 September 2007 of the time-limit for the deposit of an instrument of accession by Timor-Leste. 
28 September  2007  Extension of the Agreement for a period of one year, until 30 September 2008, with effect from 1 October 2007;  
    Extension to 30 September 2008 of the time-limit for the deposit of instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession; 
    Extension to 30 September 2008 of the time-limit for the deposit of instruments of ratification, acceptance or approval by States applying the Agreement provisionally; and 
    Extension to 30 September 2008 of the time-limit for the deposit of an instrument of accession by Timor-Leste. 

 

 

PARTICIPANTS

Participant  Signature  Provisional application (n)  Ratification, Acceptance (A), Approval (AA), Accession (a) 
Angola      2 Jan 2002 a 
Austria      23 Sep 2002 a 
Belgium2  25 Sep 2001  25 Sep 2001 n   
Benin      21 Mar 2003 a 
Bolivia      30 May 2002 a 
Brazil  18 Sep 2001    21 Sep 2001 
Bulgaria      15 Mar 2007 a 
Burundi  24 Sep 2001    24 Sep 2001 A 
Cameroon      28 May 2002 a 
Central African Republic      19 Dec 2002 a 
Colombia  20 Jun 2001  20 Jun 2001 n  17 Feb 2004 
Congo  25 Sep 2001    25 Sep 2001 
Costa Rica  20 Dec 2000    25 Sep 2002 
Côte d'Ivoire  25 Sep 2001    29 Jan 2002 AA 
Cuba  25 Sep 2001  30 Nov 2001 n  26 Dec 2001 
Cyprus      23 Jan 2002 a 
Democratic Republic of the Congo      12 Apr 2002 a 
Denmark  25 Sep 2001    5 Jun 2002 
Dominican Republic  10 Aug 2001    5 Mar 2004 
Ecuador  15 Aug 2001    5 Feb 2002 
El Salvador      25 Jan 2002 a 
Ethiopia  23 Mar 2001    16 Apr 2003 
European Community  25 Sep 2001    25 Sep 2001 AA 
France  24 Sep 2001    25 Apr 2005 AA 
Gabon  25 Sep 2001    25 Sep 2001 A 
Germany  25 Sep 2001  25 Sep 2001 n  20 Dec 2002 
Ghana3  24 Sep 2001  24 Sep 2001 n  31 May 2006 
Greece      4 Mar 2004 a 
Guatemala      5 Feb 2003 a 
Guinea      21 May 2003 a 
Haiti      24 Sep 2002 a 
Honduras  25 Sep 2001    24 Sep 2002 
India  10 Aug 2001    10 Sep 2001 
Indonesia      23 Aug 2002 a 
Ireland  25 Sep 2001  25 Sep 2001 n  11 Jun 2002 
Italy  25 Sep 2001    17 May 2005 
Jamaica  25 Sep 2001    1 Nov 2001 
Japan  11 Jul 2001    11 Jul 2001 A 
Kenya      1 Nov 2001 a 
Latvia      4 Jan 2006 a 
Luxembourg2  25 Sep 2001  25 Sep 2001 n   
Madagascar  24 Sep 2001    24 Sep 2001 A 
Malawi      12 Feb 2003 a 
Mexico  24 Sep 2001  25 Jan 2002 n  9 Jul 2002 
Netherlands4      25 May 2007 a 
Nicaragua      12 Dec 2002 a 
Nigeria      26 Feb 2002 a 
Norway      21 May 2002 a 
Panama      26 Jul 2006 a 
Papua New Guinea      23 Jan 2002 a 
Paraguay      10 Mar 2004 a 
Philippines      28 May 2002 a 
Poland      15 Sep 2006 a 
Portugal  25 Sep 2001    21 May 2003 
Rwanda  4 Sep 2001    13 Sep 2001 
Slovakia      1 Jun 2006 a 
Spain  20 Sep 2001  20 Sep 2001 n  7 Jun 2002 
Sweden      19 Nov 2001 a 
Switzerland  25 Sep 2001  28 Jan 2002 n  30 Apr 2002 
Thailand  24 Sep 2001    24 Sep 2001 
Togo      9 May 2003 a 
Uganda  9 May 2001    5 Oct 2001 
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland5  25 Sep 2001  25 Sep 2001 n  2 Jun 2003 
United Republic of Tanzania  26 Jan 2001    31 Oct 2002 
United States of America      3 Feb 2005 a 
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)      8 Jul 2004 a 
Viet Nam  22 Aug 2001    2 May 2002 AA 
Zambia      26 Mar 2003 a 
Zimbabwe      3 Jun 2004 a 
 

 

DECLARATIONS

 

 

NOTES

1. At a meeting held in London, from 26 to 28 September 2001, the representatives of the States and Organization listed below decided to put the Agreement into force provisionally among themselves as of 1 October 2001, pursuant to the provisions of article 45 (3) of the Agreement:

Exporting Countries: Brazil, Colombia, Congo (Republic of), Gabon, Ghana, India, Rwanda and Thailand; Importing countries : Belgium, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Luxembourg, Spain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and European Community.

2. In the name of the Kingdom of Belgium and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and by virtue of Article 31 of the Consolidated Convention between Belgium and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg instituting the Belgo-Luxembourg Economic Union.

3. In its notification of provisional application, the Government of Ghana notified the Secretary-General that:

"[The Government of the Republic of Ghana] ... will apply the Agreemnt provisionally, as an exporting member, with effect from 26 September 2001, pending its ratification.".

4. For the Kingdom in Europe.

5. In respect of the United Kingdom, the Bailiwick of Jersey and Saint Helena.