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16. Protocol on Civil Liability and Compensation for Damage Caused by the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents on Transboundary Waters to the 1992 Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes and to the 1992 Convention on the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents

Kiev, 21 May 2003

 

Not yet in force: see article 29 which reads as follows: "1. The 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. Article 2, paragraph 2(e)(iii), shall take effect when thresholds, limits of liability and minimum limits of financial securities for pipelines are set in annexes I and II in accordance with article 24, paragraphs 8 and 9. 3. For the purposes of paragraph 1, any instrument deposited by an organization referred to in article 27 shall not be counted as additional to those deposited by States members of such an organization. 4. For each State or organization referred to in article 27 which ratifies, accepts or approves the 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: 24 ,Parties: 1.
Text: Doc. ECE/MP.WAT/11-ECE/CP.TEIA/9. 

Note: The above Protocol was adopted on 21 May 2003 by the Extraordinary Meeting of the Parties to the Convention of 17 March 1992 on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes and the Convention of 17 March 1992 on the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents 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 paragraph 8 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 in respect of matters governed by the Protocol, including the competence to enter into treaties in respect of these matters.

 

 

PARTICIPANTS


Participant  Signature  Ratification, Acceptance (A), Approval (AA), Accession (a) 
Armenia  21 May 2003   
Austria  30 Dec 2003   
Belgium  21 May 2003   
Bosnia and Herzegovina  21 May 2003   
Bulgaria  21 May 2003   
Cyprus  21 May 2003   
Denmark  21 May 2003   
Estonia  21 May 2003   
Finland  21 May 2003   
Georgia  21 May 2003   
Greece  21 May 2003   
Hungary  21 May 2003  25 Jun 2004 
Latvia  21 May 2003   
Lithuania  21 May 2003   
Luxembourg  21 May 2003   
Moldova  21 May 2003   
Monaco  21 May 2003   
Norway  21 May 2003   
Poland  13 Jun 2003   
Portugal  21 May 2003   
Romania  21 May 2003   
Sweden  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 or accession.)

Belgium

Declaration made upon signature:

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

Denmark

Declaration made upon signature:

"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."