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5. Agreement for the Suppression of the Circulation of Obscene Publications, signed at Paris on 4 May 1910, amended by the Protocol signed at Lake Success, New York, 4 May 1949

 

Entry into force: 1 March 1950 , the date on which the amendments to the Agreement, set forth in the annex to the Protocol of 4 May 1949, entered into force in accordance with the second paragraph of article 5 of the Protocol.
Registration: 1 March 1950, No. 728.
Status: Parties: 55.
Text: United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 47, p. 159
 

 

PARTICIPANTS


Participant  Definitive signature of the Protocol, Acceptance of the Protocol, Succession to the Agreement and the Protocol  Ratification of the Agreement as amended by the Protocol, Accession to the Agreement as amended by the Protocol (a), Succession to the Agreement as amended by the Protocol (d) 
Australia  8 Dec 1949   
Austria  4 Aug 1950   
Belarus  8 Sep 1998   
Belgium  13 Oct 1952   
Cambodia    30 Mar 1959 a 
Canada  4 May 1949   
China2  4 May 1949   
Cuba  2 Dec 1983   
Cyprus    16 May 1963 d 
Czech Republic3    30 Dec 1993 d 
Democratic Republic of the Congo    31 May 1962 d 
Denmark  1 Mar 1950   
Egypt  16 Sep 1949   
Fiji  1 Nov 1971   
Finland  31 Oct 1949   
France  5 May 1949   
Ghana    7 Apr 1958 d 
Haiti4    26 Aug 1953 
Iceland  25 Oct 1950   
India  28 Dec 1949   
Iran (Islamic Republic of)  30 Dec 1959   
Iraq  14 Sep 1950   
Ireland  28 Feb 1952   
Italy  13 Nov 1952   
Jamaica4    30 Jul 1964 a 
Jordan4    11 May 1959 a 
Lesotho    28 Nov 1975 d 
Luxembourg  14 Mar 1955   
Madagascar    10 Apr 1963 a 
Malawi    22 Jul 1965 a 
Malaysia    31 Aug 1957 d 
Malta    24 Mar 1967 d 
Mauritius    18 Jul 1969 d 
Mexico  22 Jul 1952   
Myanmar4    13 May 1949 a 
Netherlands  26 Sep 1950   
New Zealand  14 Oct 1950   
Nigeria    26 Jun 1961 d 
Norway  4 May 1949   
Pakistan  4 May 1951   
Romania  2 Nov 1950   
Russian Federation  14 May 1949   
Sierra Leone    13 Mar 1962 d 
Slovakia3    28 May 1993 d 
Solomon Islands    3 Sep 1981 d 
South Africa  1 Sep 1950   
Sri Lanka  14 Jul 1949   
Switzerland  23 Sep 1949   
Trinidad and Tobago    11 Apr 1966 d 
Turkey  13 Sep 1950   
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland  4 May 1949   
United Republic of Tanzania    28 Nov 1962 a 
United States of America  14 Aug 1950   
Yugoslavia  29 Apr 1953   
Zambia    1 Nov 1974 d 
 

 

NOTES


1. See note 3 in chapter VIII.4.


2. See note concerning signatures, ratifications, accessions, etc., on behalf of China (note 3 in chapter I.1).


3. Czechoslovakia, by virtue of its acceptance on 21 June 1951 of the Protocol of 4 May 1949 amending the Agreement of 1910, was a participant in the Agreement on that same date. See also note 11 in chapter I.2.


4. States whose ratification of or accession to the Convention of 12 September 1923 as amended, in accordance with its article 10, ipso facto and without special notification involved concomitant and full acceptance of the Agreement of 4 May 1910 as amended.