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4.b. Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment to the Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context

Kiev, 21 May 2003

 

Not yet in force: see article 24 which reads as follows: "1. This Protocol shall enter into force on the ninetieth day after the date of deposit of the sixteenth instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession. 2. For the purposes of paragraph 1 above, any instrument deposited by a regional economic integration organization referred to in article 21 shall not be counted as additional to those deposited by States members of such an organization. 3. For each State or regional economic integration organization referred to in article 21 which ratifies, accepts or approves this Protocol or accedes thereto after the deposit of the sixteenth instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession the Protocol shall enter into force on the ninetieth day after the date of deposit by such State or organization of its instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession.".
Status: Signatories: 38 ,Parties: 7.
text: Doc. ECE/MP.EIA/2003/2. 

Note: The above Protocol was adopted on 21 May 2003 by the Extraordinary Meeting of the Parties to the Convention of 25 February 1991 on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context held in Kiev, from 21 to 23 May 2003. The Protocol was opened for signature from 21 to 23 May 2003 in Kiev, and will remain open for signature at United Nations Headquarters in New York until 31 December 2003 by States members of the Economic Commission for Europe as well as States having consultative status with the Economic Commission for Europe, pursuant to paragraphs 8 and 11 of Economic and Social Council resolution 36 (IV) of 28 March 1947, and by regional economic integration organizations constituted by sovereign States members of the Economic Commission for Europe to which their member States have transferred competence over matters governed by the Protocol, including the competence to enter into treaties in respect of these matters.

 

 

PARTICIPANTS


Participant  Succession to signature (d), Signature  Ratification, Acceptance (A), Approval (AA), Accession (a), Succession (d) 
Albania  21 May 2003  2 Dec 2005 
Armenia  21 May 2003   
Austria  21 May 2003   
Belgium  21 May 2003   
Bosnia and Herzegovina  21 May 2003   
Bulgaria  21 May 2003  25 Jan 2007 
Croatia  23 May 2003   
Cyprus  21 May 2003   
Czech Republic  21 May 2003  19 Jul 2005 
Denmark  21 May 2003   
Estonia  21 May 2003   
European Community  21 May 2003   
Finland  21 May 2003  18 Apr 2005 A 
France  21 May 2003   
Georgia  21 May 2003   
Germany  21 May 2003  22 Feb 2007 
Greece  21 May 2003   
Hungary  21 May 2003   
Ireland  21 May 2003   
Italy  21 May 2003   
Latvia  21 May 2003   
Lithuania  21 May 2003   
Luxembourg  21 May 2003   
Moldova  21 May 2003   
Montenegro1  23 Oct 2006 d   
Netherlands  21 May 2003   
Norway  21 May 2003  11 Oct 2007 AA 
Poland  21 May 2003   
Portugal  21 May 2003   
Romania  21 May 2003   
Serbia  21 May 2003   
Slovakia  19 Dec 2003   
Slovenia  22 May 2003   
Spain  21 May 2003   
Sweden  21 May 2003  30 Mar 2006 
The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia  21 May 2003   
Ukraine  21 May 2003   
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland  21 May 2003   
 

 

DECLARATIONS


Declarations

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

acceptance, approval, accession or succession.)

Belgium

Upon signature:

Declaration:

This signature engages also the Waloon region, the Flemish region, and the Brussels-Capital region.

Denmark

Upon signature:

Declaration:

"Both the Faroe Islands and Greeland are self-governing under Home Rule Acts, which implies inter alia that environmental affairs in general and the areas covered by the Protocol are governed by the right of self-determination.

Signing by Denmark of the Protocol, therefore does not necessarily mean that Danish ratification will in due course include the Faroe Islands and Greenland."

 

 

NOTES


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