ARTICLE 30. SIGNATURE, RATIFICATION, ACCEPTANCE,
APPROVAL, ACCESSION
1. This Convention shall be open for signature
by all States at the Headquarters of the Agency in Vienna from
20 September 1994 until its entry into force.
2. This Convention is subject to ratification,
acceptance or approval by the signatory States.
3. After its entry into force, this Convention
shall be open for accession by all States:
4. (i) This Convention shall be open for signature
or accession by regional organizations of an integration or other
nature, provided that any such organization is constituted by
sovereign States and has competence in respect of the negotiation,
conclusion and application of international agreements in matters
covered by this Convention.
(ii) In matters within their competence, such
organizations shall, on their own behalf, exercise the rights
and fulfil the responsibilities which this Convention attributes
to States Parties.
(iii) When becoming party to this Convention,
such an organization shall communicate to the Depositary referred
to in Article 34, a declaration indicating which States are members
thereof, which articles of this Convention apply to it, and the
extent of its competence in the field covered by those articles.
(iv) Such an organization shall not hold any
vote additional to those of its Member States.
5. Instruments of ratification, acceptance,
approval or accession shall be deposited with the Depositary.
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ARTICLE 31. ENTRY INTO FORCE
l. This Convention shall enter into force on
the ninetieth day after the date of deposit with the Depositary
of the twenty-second instrument of ratification, acceptance or
approval, including the instruments of seventeen States, each
having at least one nuclear installation which has achieved criticality
in a reactor core.
2. For each State or regional organization
of an integration or other nature which ratifies, accepts, approves
or accedes to this Convention after the date of deposit of the
last instrument required to satisfy the conditions set forth in
paragraph 1, this Convention shall enter into force on the ninetieth
day after the date of deposit with the Depositary of the appropriate
instrument by such a State or organization.
ARTICLE 32. AMENDMENTS TO THE CONVENTION
1. Any Contracting Party may propose an amendment
to this Convention. Proposed amendments shall be considered at
a review meeting or an extraordinary meeting.
2. The text of any proposed amendment and the
reasons for it shall be provided to the Depositary who shall communicate
the proposal to the Contracting Parties promptly and at least
ninety days before the meeting for which it is submitted for consideration.
Any comments received on such a proposal shall be circulated by
the Depositary to the Contracting Parties.
3. The Contracting Parties shall decide after
consideration of the proposed amendment whether to adopt it by
consensus, or, in the absence of consensus, to submit it to a
Diplomatic Conference. A decision to submit a proposed amendment
to a Diplomatic Conference shall require a two-thirds majority
vote of the Contracting Parties present and voting at the meeting,
provided that at least one half of the Contracting Parties are
present at the time of voting. Abstentions shall be considered
as voting.
4. The Diplomatic Conference to consider and
adopt amendments to this Convention shall be convened by the Depositary
and held no later than one year after the appropriate decision
taken in accordance with paragraph 3 of this Article. The Diplomatic
Conference shall make every effort to ensure amendments are adopted
by consensus. Should this not be possible, amendments shall be
adopted with a two-thirds majority of all Contracting Parties.
5. Amendments to this Convention adopted pursuant
to paragraphs 3 and 4 above shall be subject to ratification,
acceptance, approval, or confirmation by the Contracting Parties
and shall enter into force for those Contracting Parties which
have ratified, accepted, approved or confirmed them on the ninetieth
day after the receipt by the Depositary of the relevant instruments
by at least three fourths of the Contracting Parties. For a Contracting
Party which subsequently ratifies, accepts, approves or confirms
the said amendments, the amendments will enter into force on the
ninetieth day after that Contracting Party has deposited its relevant
instrument.
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ARTICLE 33. DENUNCIATION
1. Any Contracting Party may denounce this
Convention by written notification to the Depositary.
2. Denunciation shall take effect one year
following the date of the receipt of the notification by the Depositary,
or on such later date as may be specified in the notification.
ARTICLE 34. DEPOSITARY
l. The Director General of the Agency shall
be the Depositary of this Convention.
2. The Depositary shall inform the Contracting
Parties of:
(i) the signature of this Convention and of
the deposit of instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval
or accession, in accordance with Article 30;
(ii) the date on which the Convention enters
into force, in accordance with Article 31;
(iii) the notifications of denunciation of
the Convention and the date thereof, made in accordance with Article
33;
(iv) the proposed amendments to this Convention
submitted by Contracting Parties, the amendments adopted by the
relevant Diplomatic Conference or by the meeting of the Contracting
Parties, and the date of entry into force of the said amendments,
in accordance with Article 32.
ARTICLE 35. AUTHENTIC TEXTS
The original of this Convention of which the
Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish texts are
equally authentic, shall be deposited with the Depositary, who
shall send certified copies thereof to the Contracting Parties.