Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans of the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and Contiguous Atlantic Area 3

Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans of the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and Contiguous Atlantic Area

 

Article XI
Effect of this Agreement on Legislation and International Conventions

1. The provisions of this Agreement shall not affect the right of any Party to
maintain or adopt more stringent measures for the conservation of cetaceans and
their habitats, nor the rights or obligations of any Party deriving from any
existing treaty, convention or agreement to which it is a party, except where
the exercise of those rights and obligations would threaten the conservation of
cetaceans.

2. Parties shall implement this Agreement consistently with their rights and
obligations arising under the law of the sea.

Article XII
Settlement of Disputes

1. Any dispute which may arise between two or more Parties with respect to the
interpretation or application of the provisions of this Agreement shall be
subject to negotiation between the Parties involved in the dispute, or to
mediation or conciliation by a third party if this is acceptable to the Parties
concerned.

2. If the dispute cannot be resolved in accordance with paragraph 1 of this
Article, the Parties may by mutual consent submit the dispute to arbitration or
judicial settlement. The Parties submitting the dispute shall be bound by the
arbitral or judicial decision.

Article XIII
Signature, Ratification, Acceptance, Approval or Accession

1. This Agreement shall be open for signature by any Range State, whether or not
areas under its jurisdiction lie within the Agreement area, or regional economic
integration organization, at least one member of which is a Range State, either
by:
a) signature without reservation in respect of ratification, acceptance or
approval; or

b) signature with reservation in respect of ratification, acceptance or
approval, followed by ratification, acceptance or approval.

2. This Agreement shall remain open for signature at Monaco until the date of
its entry into force.

3. This Agreement shall be open for accession by any Range State or regional
economic integration organization mentioned in paragraph 1, above, on and after
the date of entry into force of the Agreement.

4. Instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession shall be
deposited with the Depositary.

Article XIV
Entry into Force

1. This Agreement shall enter into force on the first day of the third month
following the date on which at least seven coastal States of the Agreement area
or regional economic integration organizations, comprising at least two from the
subregion of the Black Sea and at least five from the subregion of the
Mediterranean Sea and contiguous Atlantic area, have signed without reservation
in respect of ratification, acceptance or approval, or have deposited their
instruments of ratification, acceptance or approval in accordance with Article
XIII of this Agreement.

2. For any Range State or regional economic integration organization which has:

a) signed without reservation in respect of ratification, acceptance, or
approval;

b) ratified, accepted, or approved; or

c) acceded to

this Agreement after the date on which the number of Range States and regional
economic integration organizations necessary to enable entry into force have
signed it without reservation or have ratified, accepted or approved it, this
Agreement shall enter into force on the first day of the third month following
the signature without reservation, or deposit, by that State or organization, of
its instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession.

Article XV
Reservations

The provisions of this Agreement shall not be subject to general reservations.
However, a specific reservation may be entered by any State in respect of a
specifically delimited part of its internal waters, on signature without
reservation in respect of ratification, acceptance or approval or, as the case
may be, on the deposit of its instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval
or accession. Such a reservation may be withdrawn at any time by the State which
had entered it by notification in writing to the Depositary; the State concerned
shall not be bound by the application of the Agreement to the waters which are
the object of the reservation until thirty days after the date on which the
reservation has been withdrawn.

Article XVI
Denunciation

Any Party may denounce this Agreement at any time by written notification to the
Depositary. The denunciation shall take effect twelve months after the date on
which the Depositary has received the notification.

Article XVII
Depositary

1. The original of this Agreement, in the Arabic, English, French, Russian and
Spanish languages, each version being equally authentic, shall be deposited with
the Government of the Principality of Monaco, which shall be the Depositary. The
Depositary shall transmit certified copies of the Agreement to all States and
regional economic integration organizations referred to in Article XIII,
paragraph 1, of this Agreement, and to the Agreement secretariat after it has
been established.

2. As soon as this Agreement enters into force, a certified copy thereof shall
be transmitted by the Depositary to the Secretariat of the United Nations for
registration and publication in accordance with Article 102 of the Charter of
the United Nations.

3. The Depositary shall inform all States and regional economic integration
organizations that have signed or acceded to the Agreement, and the Agreement
secretariat, of:

a) any signature;

b) any deposit of an instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or
accession;

c) the date of entry into force of this Agreement and of any additional annex as
well as of any amendment to the Agreement or to its annexes;

d) any reservation with respect to an additional annex or an amendment to an
annex;

e) any notification of withdrawal of a reservation; and

f) any notification of denunciation of this Agreement.

The Depositary shall transmit to all States and regional economic integration
organizations that have signed or acceded to this Agreement, and to the
Agreement secretariat, the text of any reservation, any additional annex and any
amendment to the Agreement or to its annexes.In witness whereof the undersigned, being duly authorized to that effect, have
signed this Agreement.

Done at Monaco on the twenty-fourth day of November 1996.

Conclusion

Notes

See Also

References and Further Reading

About the Author/s and Reviewer/s

Author: international

Mentioned in these Entries

Settlement of Disputes.


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