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46. International Tropical Timber Agreement, 2006

Geneva, 27 January 2006

 

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.

 

 

PARTICIPANTS


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