Status Report: MONTREAL AMENDMENT TO MONTREAL PROTOCOL

STATUS REPORT

MONTREAL AMENDMENT TO MONTREAL PROTOCOL

(Montreal, 17/09/1997)

ENTRY INTO FORCE : 10 NOVEMBER 1999

Depositary: Secretary-General of the United Nations

Last updated by PacLII: N/A

Parties	Date of Signature	Date of ratification / Other	Entry Into Force	Domestication Legislation (where available)
Cook Islands		22 Dec 2003 a
Marshall Islands		27 Jan 2003 a
Niue		22 Dec 2003 a
Palau		29 May 2001 a
Samoa		4 Oct 2001 A
Solomon Islands		17 Aug 1999 a
Tonga		26 Nov 2003
Tuvalu		31 Aug 2000 A

"With regard to the authentic English text, the Government of the United Kingdom considers the original text of both article 3 (1) and article 3 (3) of the Amendment to be correct. The Government therefore objects to the proposal to correct the text of these two paragraphs by the addition of the words 'or accession
1. In this regard, the Secretary-General received the following objection
2. With a territorial exclusion in respect of the Faroe Islands
3. See also note 1 under "New Zealand" regarding Tokelau in the "Historical Information" section in the front matter of this volume
Antigua and Barbuda		10 Feb 2000
Argentina		15 Feb 2001
Australia		5 Jan 1999 A
Austria		7 Aug 2000
Azerbaijan		28 Sep 2000 AA
Bahrain		13 Mar 2001
Bangladesh		27 Jul 2001 A
Barbados		10 Dec 2002 a
Bolivia		12 Apr 1999 a
Bosnia and Herzegovina		11 Aug 2003 a
Bulgaria		24 Nov 1999
Burkina Faso		11 Nov 2002
Burundi		18 Oct 2001 A
Canada		27 Mar 1998
Cape Verde		31 Jul 2001 a
Chad		30 May 2001
Chile		17 Jun 1998
Colombia		16 Jun 2003 a
Comoros		02 Dec 2002 a
Congo		19 Oct 2001 a
Croatia		8 Sep 2000
Cyprus		2 Jun 2003 A
Czech Republic		5 Nov 1999 AA
Democratic People's Republic of Korea		13 Dec 2001 a
Denmark2		24 Sep 2003 A
Djibouti		30 Jul 1999 a
Egypt		20 Jul 2000
El Salvador		8 Dec 2000 a
Estonia		11 Apr 2003 a
European Community		17 Nov 2000 AA
Finland		18 Jun 2001 A
France		25 Jul 2003 AA
Gabon		4 Dec 2000 a
Georgia		12 Jul 2000 a
Germany		5 Jan 1999
Grenada		20 May 1999 a
Guatemala		21 Jan 2002 a
Guinea-Bissau		12 Nov 2002 a
Guyana		23 Jul 1999 A
Haiti		29 Mar 2000 a
Hungary		26 Jul 1999
Iceland		8 Feb 2000
India		3 Mar 2003 a
Iran (Islamic Republic of)		17 Oct 2001 A
Israel		28 May 2003
Italy		1 May 2001
Jamaica		24 Sep 2003 a
Japan		30 Aug 2002 A
Jordan		3 Feb 1999
Kenya		12 Jul 2000
Kuwait		13 Jun 2003 a
Kyrgyzstan		13 May 2003
Latvia		14 Jun 2002 A
Lebanon		31 Jul 2000 a
Liechtenstein		23 Dec 2003 A
Lithuania		17 Mar 2004 A
Luxembourg		8 Feb 1999
Madagascar		16 Jan 2002 a
Malaysia		26 Oct 2001
Maldives		27 Sep 2001
Mali		7 Mar 2003 A
Malta		22 Dec 2003 A
Mauritius		24 Mar 2003 A
Micronesia (Federated States of)		27 Nov 2001 a
Monaco		26 Jul 2001 A
Mongolia		28 Mar 2002
Netherlands		21 Feb 2000 A
New Zealand3		3 Jun 1999
Niger		8 Oct 1999
Nigeria		27 Sep 2001
Norway		30 Dec 1998
Notes
Panama		5 Mar 1999
Paraguay		27 Apr 2001
Poland		6 Dec 1999
Portugal		3 Oct 2003
Republic of Korea		19 Aug 1998 A
Romania		21 May 2001 A
Rwanda		7 Jan 2004 a
Saint Kitts and Nevis		25 Feb 1999
Saint Lucia		24 Aug 1999 a
Sao Tome and Principe		19 Nov 2001 a
Senegal		12 Aug 1999 a
Seychelles		26 Aug 2002 a
Sierra Leone		29 Aug 2001 a
Singapore		22 Sep 2000 a
Slovakia		3 Nov 1999 AA
Slovenia		15 Nov 1999
Somalia		1 Aug 2001 a
Spain		11 May 1999 A
Sri Lanka		20 Aug 1999 a
Sweden		12 Jul 1999
Switzerland		28 Aug 2002
Syrian Arab Republic		30 Nov 1999 a
Thailand		23 Jun 2003
The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia		31 Aug 1999 a
The Government of the United Kingdom also notes that the existing wording of the authentic English text of article 3 (1) and article 3 (3) of the 1997 Amendment is consistent with the wording used in previous amendments to the Montreal Protocol, namely article 2 of the Amendment to the Montreal Protocol adopted at London in 1990 and article 3 of the Amendment to the Montreal Protocol adopted at Copenhagen in 1992
The Government of the United Kingdom respectfully draws the attention of the Secretary-General to article 9, paragraph 5, of the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer, and to article 14 of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer. The effect of these provisions is that amendments to the Protocol are subject to ratification, approval or acceptance. There is no provision for accession to amendments. The Government therefore believes that the addition of the words proposed by the Secretary-General would be inconsistent with the provisions of the Vienna Convention and the Montreal Protocol which apply to the entry into force of amendments to the Protocol
The Secretary-General's Depositary Notification refers to errors in the first sentence of article 3 (1) (except French version). The Government of the United Kingdom has not seen the authentic French version of article 3 (1), which was not attached to the Depositary Notification, but would respectfully suggest that the Secretary-General may wish to consider whether there are errors in the French version."
Togo		26 Nov 2001 A
Trinidad and Tobago		10 Jun 1999
Tunisia		19 Oct 1999
Turkey		24 Oct 2003
Uganda		23 Nov 1999 a
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland		12 Oct 2001
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (20 December 1999)
United Republic of Tanzania		6 Dec 2002
United States of America		1 Oct 2003
Uruguay		16 Feb 2000 a
Venezuela		13 May 2002
Yemen		23 Apr 2001 a

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