| Not yet in force: | which reads, in part, as follows: "1. This Agreement shall enter into force definitively on 1 February 2008 or on any date thereafter, if 12 Governments of producers holding at least 60 per cent of the total votes as set out in Annex A to this Agreement and 10 Governments of consumers as listed in Annex B and accounting for 60 per cent of the global import volume of tropical timber in the reference year 2005 have signed this Agreement definitively or have ratified, accepted or approved it pursuant to article 36, paragraph 2, or article 37. 2. If this Agreement has not entered into force definitively on 1 February 2008, it shall enter into force provisionally on that date or on any date within six months thereafter if 10 Governments of producers holding at least 50 per cent of the total votes as set out in Annex A to this Agreement and seven Governments of consumers as listed in Annex B and accounting for 50 per cent of the global import volume of tropical timber in the reference year 2005 have signed this Agreement definitively or have ratified, accepted or approved it pursuant to article 36, paragraph 2 or have notified the depositary under article 38 that they will apply this Agreement provisionally.". |
| Status: | Signatories: 15 ,Parties: 5. |
| Text: | Doc. TD/TIMBER.3/12. |
Note: The above Agreement was adopted on 27 January 2006 at Geneva by the United Nations Conference for the Negotiation of a Successor Agreement to the International Tropical Timber Agreement, 1994. In accordance with its article 36, the Agreement shall be open for signature at United Nations Headquarters in New York from 3 April 2006 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, 1994.
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| Participant | Signature | Provisional application (n) | Ratification, Acceptance (A), Approval (AA), Accession (a), Definitive signature (s) |
| Cameroon | 13 Feb 2007 | ||
| Colombia | 3 May 2007 | ||
| Ecuador | 24 May 2007 | ||
| European Community | 2 Nov 2007 | 2 Nov 2007 n | |
| Greece | 29 Oct 2007 | ||
| Guatemala | 14 Jul 2006 | ||
| Indonesia | 7 Apr 2006 | ||
| Japan | 16 Feb 2007 | 31 Aug 2007 A | |
| Madagascar | 19 Sep 2006 | ||
| Malaysia | 28 Mar 2007 | 28 Sep 2007 | |
| Mexico | 25 Jul 2007 | ||
| Norway | 13 Sep 2006 | ||
| Panama | 8 Dec 2006 | ||
| Switzerland | 13 Dec 2006 | 27 Apr 2007 | |
| Togo | 21 Apr 2006 | ||
| United States of America | 27 Apr 2007 s |