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2.c. Amendment to the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons which may be deemed to be Excessively Injurious or to have Indiscriminate Effects

Geneva, 21 December 2001

 

Entry into force: 18 May 2004 , in accordance with article 8, paragraph 1 (b) of the Convention which reads, in part, as follows: "amendments ... shall enter into force in the same manner as the Convention and the annexed Protocols (i.e. ... six months after the date of deposit of the twentieth instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession. ".
Registration: 18 May 2004, No. 22495.
Status: ,Parties: 56.
Text: Doc. CCW/CONF/II/2 and depositary notification C.N.104.2002.TREATIES-1 of 11 February 2002; C.N.1329.2005.TREATIES-9 of 3 January 2006 (Proposal of correction to the authentic Russian text) and C.N.130.2006.TREATIES-1 of 9 February 2006 (Correction to the Authentic Russian text). 

Note: At the Second Review Conference, held in Geneva from 11 to 21 December 2001, the Parties to the Convention on the Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Convention Weapons which may be deemed to be Excessively Injurious or to have Indiscriminate Effects concluded at Geneva on 10 October 1980 adopted, in accordance with the procedure laid down in article 8 (1) (b) of the Convention, the Amendment to Article 1 of the said Convention as set out in the Final Declaration of the Second Review Conference (Doc. CCW/CONF/II/2).

 

 

PARTICIPANTS

Participant  Ratification, Acceptance (A), Approval (AA), Accession (a), Succession (d), Consent to be bound (P) 
Albania  12 May 2006 a 
Argentina  25 Feb 2004 a 
Australia  3 Dec 2002 A 
Austria  25 Sep 2003 A 
Belgium  12 Feb 2004 
Bulgaria  28 Feb 2003 
Burkina Faso  26 Nov 2003 a 
Canada  22 Jul 2002 A 
Chile  27 Sep 2007 A 
China  11 Aug 2003 
Croatia  27 May 2003 
Cuba  17 Oct 2007 A 
Czech Republic  6 Jun 2006 
Denmark  15 Sep 2004 A 
El Salvador  13 Sep 2007 a 
Estonia  12 May 2003 
Finland  22 Jun 2004 A 
France  10 Dec 2002 AA 
Germany  26 Jan 2005 A 
Greece  26 Nov 2004 
Holy See  9 Dec 2002 A 
Hungary  27 Dec 2002 
India  18 May 2005 a 
Ireland  8 Nov 2006 A 
Italy  1 Sep 2004 
Japan  10 Jul 2003 A 
Latvia  23 Apr 2003 a 
Liberia  16 Sep 2005 a 
Liechtenstein  18 Jun 2004 A 
Lithuania  12 May 2003 A 
Luxembourg  13 Jun 2005 
Malta  24 Sep 2004 a 
Mexico  22 May 2003 A 
Moldova  5 Jan 2005 a 
Montenegro  23 Oct 2006 d 
Netherlands  19 May 2004 A 
Nicaragua  6 Sep 2007 
Niger  18 Sep 2007 P 
Norway  18 Nov 2003 AA 
Panama  16 Aug 2004 a 
Peru  14 Feb 2005 
Poland  15 Sep 2006 
Republic of Korea  13 Feb 2003 A 
Romania  25 Aug 2003 a 
Russian Federation  24 Jan 2007 A 
Serbia  11 Nov 2003 A 
Sierra Leone  30 Sep 2004 
Slovakia  11 Feb 2004 
Spain  9 Feb 2004 
Sri Lanka  24 Sep 2004 a 
Sweden  3 Dec 2002 A 
Switzerland  19 Jan 2004 A 
The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia  11 Jul 2007 a 
Turkey  2 Mar 2005 
Ukraine  29 Jun 2005 A 
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland  25 Jul 2002 A 
 

 

DECLARATIONS

Declarations and Reservations

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

acceptance, approval, accession or succession.)

Holy See

Declaration:

".... declares the acceptance on the part of the Holy See of said amendment to Article I of the Convention, considering that in accordance with paragraph 4 of amended Article 1 the right of the Parties, "by all legitimate means, to maintain or re-establish law and order in the State or to defend the national unity and territorial integrity of the State" should be interpreted in conformity with international humanitarian law, the United Nations' Charter and other international rules."

Mexico

Interpretative declaration:

The Government of Mexico understands that the conflicts not of an international character referred to in article 1, paragraph 3 as amended correspond to the situations referred to in article 3 common to the Geneva Conventions of 1949.

The Government of Mexico further understands that article 1, paragraph 7, as amended does not prejudice the applicability of future protocols to such situations as those defined in article 1, paragraph 2, as amended, and reserves the right to take positions that best accommodate its interests in negotiating future additional protocols.

 

 

NOTES

1. See note 1 under "Montenegro" in the "Historical Information" section in the front matter of this volume.

2. Upon ratification, the Government of China communicated the following:

"In accordance with the provisions of Article 153 of the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China of 1990 and Article 138 of the Basic Law of the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China of 1993, the Government of the People's Republic of China decides that the Amendment to Article I of the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons which may be deemed to be Excessively Injurious or to have Indiscriminate Effects shall apply to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China."

3. For the Kingdom in Europe.