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o razglasitvi Zakona o ratifikaciji Pogodbe o Antarktiki (MPA)
Razglašam Zakon o ratifikaciji Pogodbe o Antarktiki (MPA), ki ga je sprejel Državni zbor Republike Slovenije na seji dne 31. januarja 2019.
Št. 003-02-1/2019-9
Ljubljana, dne 8. februarja 2019
Borut Pahor l.r.
O RATIFIKACIJI POGODBE O ANTARKTIKI (MPA)
1. člen
Ratificira se Pogodba o Antarktiki, sklenjena v Washingtonu 1. decembra 1959.
Besedilo pogodbe se v izvirniku v angleškem jeziku in v prevodu v slovenskem jeziku glasi:1
1 Besedilo pogodbe v francoskem, ruskem in španskem jeziku je na vpogled v Sektorju za mednarodno pravo Ministrstva za zunanje zadeve.
The Governments of Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Chile, the French Republic, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, the Union of South Africa, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the United States of America,
Recognizing that it is in the interest of all mankind that Antarctica shall continue forever to be used exclusively for peaceful purposes and shall not become the scene or object of international discord;
Acknowledging the substantial contributions to scientific knowledge resulting from international cooperation in scientific investigation in Antarctica;
Convinced that the establishment of a firm foundation for the continuation and development of such cooperation on the basis of freedom of scientific investigation in Antarctica as applied during the International Geophysical Year accords with the interests of science and the progress of all mankind;
Convinced also that a Treaty ensuring the use of Antarctica for peaceful purposes only and the continuance of international harmony in Antarctica will further the purposes and principles embodied in the Charter of the United Nations;
Have agreed as follows:
1. Antarctica shall be used for peaceful purposes only. There shall be prohibited, inter alia, any measures of a military nature, such as the establishment of military bases and fortifications, the carrying out of military maneuvers, as well as the testing of any type of weapons.
2. The present Treaty shall not prevent the use of military personnel or equipment for scientific research or for any other peaceful purposes.
Freedom of scientific investigation in Antarctica and cooperation toward that end, as applied during the International Geophysical Year, shall continue, subject to the provisions of the present Treaty.
1. In order to promote international cooperation in scientific investigation in Antarctica, as provided for in Article II of the present Treaty, the Contracting Parties agree that, to the greatest extent feasible and practicable:
(a) information regarding plans for scientific programs in Antarctica shall be exchanged to permit maximum economy and efficiency of operations;
(b) scientific personnel shall be exchanged in Antarctica between expeditions and stations;
(c) scientific observations and results from Antarctica shall be exchanged and made freely available.
2. In implementing this Article, every encouragement shall be given to the establishment of cooperative working relations with those Specialized Agencies of the United Nations and other international organizations having a scientific or technical interest in Antarctica.
1. Nothing contained in the present Treaty shall be interpreted as:
(a) a renunciation by any Contracting Party of previously asserted rights of or claims to territorial sovereignty in Antarctica;
(b) a renunciation or diminution by any Contracting Party of any basis of claim to territorial sovereignty in Antarctica which it may have whether as a result of its activities or those of its nationals in Antarctica, or otherwise;
(c) prejudicing the position of any Contracting Party as regards its recognition or non-recognition of any other State’s right of or claim or basis of claim to territorial sovereignty in Antarctica.
2. No acts or activities taking place while the present Treaty is in force shall constitute a basis for asserting, supporting or denying a claim to territorial sovereignty in Antarctica or create any rights of sovereignty in Antarctica. No new claim, or enlargement of an existing claim, to territorial sovereignty in Antarctica shall be asserted while the present Treaty is in force.
1. Any nuclear explosions in Antarctica and the disposal there of radioactive waste material shall be prohibited.
2. In the event of the conclusion of international agreements concerning the use of nuclear energy, including nuclear explosions and the disposal of radioactive waste material, to which all of the Contracting Parties whose representatives are entitled to participate in the meetings provided for under Article IX are parties, the rules established under such agreements shall apply in Antarctica.
The provisions of the present Treaty shall apply to the area south of 60° South Latitude, including all ice shelves, but nothing in the present Treaty shall prejudice or in any way affect the rights, or the exercise of the rights, of any State under international law with regard to the high seas within that area.
1. In order to promote the objectives and ensure the observance of the provisions of the present Treaty, each Contracting Party whose representatives are entitled to participate in the meetings referred to in Article IX of the Treaty shall have the right to designate observers to carry out any inspection provided for by the present Article. Observers shall be nationals of the Contracting Parties which designate them. The names of observers shall be communicated to every other Contracting Party having the right to designate observers, and like notice shall be given of the termination of their appointment.
2. Each observer designated in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 1 of this Article shall have complete freedom of access at any time to any or all areas of Antarctica.
3. All areas of Antarctica, including all stations, installations and equipment within those areas, and all ships and aircraft at points of discharging or embarking cargoes or personnel in Antarctica, shall be open at all times to inspection by any observers designated in accordance with paragraph 1 of this Article.
4. Aerial observation may be carried out at any time over any or all areas of Antarctica by any of the Contracting Parties having the right to designate observers.
5. Each Contracting Party shall, at the time when the present Treaty enters into force for it, inform the other Contracting Parties, and thereafter shall give them notice in advance, of
(a) all expeditions to and within Antarctica, on the part of its ships or nationals, and all expeditions to Antarctica organized in or proceeding from its territory;
(b) all stations in Antarctica occupied by its nationals; and
(c) any military personnel or equipment intended to be introduced by it into Antarctica subject to the conditions prescribed in paragraph 2 of Article I of the present Treaty.
1. In order to facilitate the exercise of their functions under the present Treaty, and without prejudice to the respective positions of the Contracting Parties relating to jurisdiction over all other persons in Antarctica, observers designated under paragraph 1 of Article VII and scientific personnel exchanged under subparagraph 1(b) of Article III of the Treaty, and members of the staffs accompanying any such persons, shall be subject only to the jurisdiction of the Contracting Party of which they are nationals in respect of all acts or omissions occurring while they are in Antarctica for the purpose of exercising their functions.
2. Without prejudice to the provisions of paragraph 1 of this Article, and pending the adoption of measures in pursuance of subparagraph 1(e) of Article IX, the Contracting Parties concerned in any case of dispute with regard to the exercise of jurisdiction in Antarctica shall immediately consult together with a view to reaching a mutually acceptable solution.
1. Representatives of the Contracting Parties named in the preamble to the present Treaty shall meet at the City of Canberra within two months after the date of entry into force of the Treaty, and thereafter at suitable intervals and places, for the purpose of exchanging information, consulting together on matters of common interest pertaining to Antarctica, and formulating and considering, and recommending to their Governments, measures in furtherance of the principles and objectives of the Treaty, including measures regarding:
(a) use of Antarctica for peaceful purposes only;
(b) facilitation of scientific research in Antarctica;
(c) facilitation of international scientific cooperation in Antarctica;
(d) facilitation of the exercise of the rights of inspection provided for in Article VII of the Treaty;
(e) questions relating to the exercise of jurisdiction in Antarctica;
(f) preservation and conservation of living resources in Antarctica.
2. Each Contracting Party which has become a party to the present Treaty by accession under Article XIII shall be entitled to appoint representatives to participate in the meetings referred to in paragraph 1 of the present Article, during such time as that Contracting Party demonstrates its interest in Antarctica by conducting substantial scientific research activity there, such as the establishment of a scientific station or the despatch of a scientific expedition.
3. Reports from the observers referred to in Article VII of the present Treaty shall be transmitted to the representatives of the Contracting Parties participating in the meetings referred to in paragraph 1 of the present Article.
4. The measures referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article shall become effective when approved by all the Contracting Parties whose representatives were entitled to participate in the meetings held to consider those measures.
5. Any or all of the rights established in the present Treaty may be exercised from the date of entry into force of the Treaty whether or not any measures facilitating the exercise of such rights have been proposed, considered or approved as provided in this Article.
Each of the Contracting Parties undertakes to exert appropriate efforts, consistent with the Charter of the United Nations, to the end that no one engages in any activity in Antarctica contrary to the principles or purposes of the present Treaty.
1. If any dispute arises between two or more of the Contracting Parties concerning the interpretation or application of the present Treaty, those Contracting Parties shall consult among themselves with a view to having the dispute resolved by negotiation, inquiry, mediation, conciliation, arbitration, judicial settlement or other peaceful means of their own choice.
2. Any dispute of this character not so resolved shall, with the consent, in each case, of all parties to the dispute, be referred to the International Court of Justice for settlement; but failure to reach agreement on reference to the International Court shall not absolve parties to the dispute from the responsibility of continuing to seek to resolve it by any of the various peaceful means referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article.
1. (a) The present Treaty may be modified or amended at any time by unanimous agreement of the Contracting Parties whose representatives are entitled to participate in the meetings provided for under Article IX. Any such modification or amendment shall enter into force when the depositary Government has received notice from all such Contracting Parties that they have ratified it.
(b) Such modification or amendment shall thereafter enter into force as to any other Contracting Party when notice of ratification by it has been received by the depositary Government. Any such Contracting Party from which no notice of ratification is received within a period of two years from the date of entry into force of the modification or amendment in accordance with the provisions of subparagraph 1(a) of this Article shall be deemed to have withdrawn from the present Treaty on the date of the expiration of such period.
2. (a) If after the expiration of thirty years from the date of entry into force of the present Treaty, any of the Contracting Parties whose representatives are entitled to participate in the meetings provided for under Article IX so requests by a communication addressed to the depositary Government, a Conference of all the Contracting Parties shall be held as soon as practicable to review the operation of the Treaty.
(b) Any modification or amendment to the present Treaty which is approved at such a Conference by a majority of the Contracting Parties there represented, including a majority of those whose representatives are entitled to participate in the meetings provided for under Article IX, shall be communicated by the depositary Government to all the Contracting Parties immediately after the termination of the Conference and shall enter into force in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 1 of the present Article.
(c) If any such modification or amendment has not entered into force in accordance with the provisions of subparagraph 1(a) of this Article within a period of two years after the date of its communication to all the Contracting Parties, any Contracting Party may at any time after the expiration of that period give notice to the depositary Government of its withdrawal from the present Treaty; and such withdrawal shall take effect two years after the receipt of the notice of the depositary Government.
1. The present Treaty shall be subject to ratification by the signatory States. It shall be open for accession by any State which is a Member of the United Nations, or by any other State which may be invited to accede to the Treaty with the consent of all the Contracting Parties whose representatives are entitled to participate in the meetings provided for under Article IX of the Treaty.
2. Ratification of or accession to the present Treaty shall be effected by each State in accordance with its constitutional processes.
3. Instruments of ratification and instruments of accession shall be deposited with the Government of the United States of America, hereby designated as the depositary Government.
4. The depositary Government shall inform all signatory and acceding States of the date of each deposit of an instrument of ratification or accession, and the date of entry into force of the Treaty and of any modification or amendment thereto.
5. Upon the deposit of instruments of ratification by all the signatory States, the present Treaty shall enter into force for those States and for States which have deposited instruments of accession. Thereafter the Treaty shall enter into force for any acceding State upon the deposit of its instrument of accession.
6. The present Treaty shall be registered by the depositary Government pursuant to Article 102 of the Charter of the United Nations.
The present Treaty, done in the English, French, Russian and Spanish languages, each version being equally authentic, shall be deposited in the archives of the Government of the United States of America, which shall transmit duly certified copies thereof to the Governments of the signatory and acceding States.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF the undersigned Plenipotentiaries, duly authorized, have signed the present Treaty.
DONE at Washington this first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-nine.
Vlade Argentine, Avstralije, Belgije, Čila, Francoske republike, Japonske, Nove Zelandije, Norveške, Južnoafriške unije, Zveze sovjetskih socialističnih republik, Združenega kraljestva Velike Britanije in Severne Irske ter Združenih držav Amerike so se
ob zavedanju interesa celotnega človeštva, da se Antarktika za vedno uporablja izključno v miroljubne namene in da ne postane kraj ali predmet mednarodnih sporov,
ob priznavanju pomembnega napredka v znanosti, ki izhaja iz mednarodnega sodelovanja pri znanstvenem raziskovanju na Antarktiki,
v prepričanju, da je postavitev trdnih temeljev za nadaljevanje in razvoj takega sodelovanja na podlagi svobode znanstvenega raziskovanja na Antarktiki, ki je veljala v mednarodnem geofizikalnem letu, skladna z interesi znanosti in prizadevanji za napredek celotnega človeštva,
v prepričanju, da bo pogodba, ki zagotavlja uporabo Antarktike samo v miroljubne namene in nadaljnjo mednarodno složnost na Antarktiki, prispeval k uresničevanju ciljev in načel, ki so zapisani v Ustanovni listini Organizacije združenih narodov,
dogovorile:
1. Antarktika se uporablja samo v miroljubne namene. Med drugim so prepovedani vsi ukrepi vojaške narave, kot so postavljanje vojaških baz in utrdb, izvajanje vojaških vaj in testiranje vseh vrst orožja.
2. Ta pogodba ne preprečuje uporabe vojaškega osebja ali opreme za znanstvene raziskave ali druge miroljubne namene.
Svoboda znanstvenega raziskovanja na Antarktiki in sodelovanje v ta namen, ki sta se uveljavila v mednarodnem geofizikalnem letu, naj se nadaljujeta, in sicer v skladu z določbami te pogodbe.
1. Za spodbujanje mednarodnega sodelovanja pri znanstvenem raziskovanju na Antarktiki, kot določa II. člen te pogodbe, se pogodbenice strinjajo, da si v največji možni meri:
(a) izmenjujejo informacije o načrtovanih znanstvenih programih na Antarktiki, da se zagotovita največja gospodarnost in učinkovitost dejavnosti;
(b) izmenjujejo znanstveno osebje med odpravami in postajami na Antarktiki;
(c) izmenjujejo znanstvene ugotovitve in rezultate, pridobljene na Antarktiki, in omogočijo prost dostop do njih.
2. Za izvajanje tega člena se vsestransko spodbuja vzpostavitev sodelovanja s specializiranimi agencijami Organizacije združenih narodov in drugimi mednarodnimi organizacijami, ki jih Antarktika zanima v znanstvenem ali tehničnem smislu.
1. Nobena določba te pogodbe se ne razlaga, kot da:
(a) se katerakoli pogodbenica odpoveduje že uveljavljenim pravicam do ozemeljske suverenosti ali zahtevam po ozemeljski suverenosti na Antarktiki;
(b) se katerakoli pogodbenica delno ali v celoti odpoveduje katerikoli podlagi za zahtevo po ozemeljski suverenosti na Antarktiki, ki jo ima bodisi zaradi svojih dejavnosti ali dejavnosti svojih državljanov na Antarktiki bodisi iz drugih razlogov;
(c) prejudicira stališče katerekoli pogodbenice glede njenega priznavanja ali nepriznavanja pravice do ozemeljske suverenosti, zahteve po ozemeljski suverenosti ali podlage za zahtevo katerekoli druge države po ozemeljski suverenosti na Antarktiki.
2. Nobeno dejanje ali dejavnost, ki poteka v času veljavnosti te pogodbe, ni podlaga za podporo zahtevi po ozemeljski suverenosti na Antarktiki ali uveljavitev ali zavrnitev te zahteve niti ne ustvarja katerihkoli pravic do suverenosti na Antarktiki. V času veljavnosti te pogodbe se ne uveljavljajo nove ali razširjajo obstoječe zahteve po ozemeljski suverenosti na Antarktiki.
1. Kakršnekoli jedrske eksplozije in odlaganje radioaktivnih odpadkov na Antarktiki so prepovedani.
2. Če se sklenejo mednarodni sporazumi o uporabi jedrske energije, tudi o jedrskih eksplozijah in odlaganju radioaktivnih odpadkov, katerih pogodbenice so vse pogodbenice te pogodbe, katerih predstavniki imajov skladu z IX. členompravico do udeležbe na zasedanjih, veljajo na Antarktiki pravila, določena v teh sporazumih.
Določbe te pogodbe veljajo za območje južno od 60 stopinj južne zemljepisne širine, tudi za vse ledene police, vendar nobena določba te pogodbe ne prejudicira ali na katerikoli način vpliva na pravice ali uveljavljanje pravic katerekoli države po mednarodnem pravu glede odprtega morja na tem območju.
1. Za spodbujanje ciljev in zagotavljanje spoštovanja določb te pogodbe ima vsaka pogodbenica, katere predstavniki imajo pravico do udeležbe na zasedanjih iz IX. člena te pogodbe, pravico imenovati opazovalce za izvajanje pregledov, določenih v tem členu. Pogodbenice za opazovalce imenujejo svoje državljane. Njihova imena sporočijo vsem drugim pogodbenicam, ki imajo pravico imenovati opazovalce, prav tako pa jih obvestijo o zaključku njihovega mandata.
2. Vsak opazovalec, imenovan v skladu z določbami prvega odstavka tega člena, ima popolno svobodo dostopa do kateregakoli območja ali vseh območij Antarktike.
3. Vsi opazovalci, ki so imenovani v skladu s prvim odstavkom tega člena, lahko kadarkoli opravijo pregled vseh območij Antarktike, vključno z vsemi postajami, napeljavo in opremo na teh območjih, ter vseh plovil in zrakoplovov na mestih raztovarjanja ali natovarjanja tovora ali osebja na Antarktiki.
4. Vsaka pogodbenica, ki ima pravico imenovati opazovalce, lahko kadarkoli izvede opazovanje iz zraka kateregakoli območja ali vseh območij Antarktike.
5. Vsaka pogodbenica ob začetku veljavnosti te pogodbe zanjo obvesti druge pogodbenice in v nadaljevanju pošlje predhodno obvestilo o naslednjem:
(a) vseh odpravah svojih plovil ali državljanov na Antarktiko in na ozemlju Antarktike in vseh odpravah na Antarktiko, ki so organizirane ali se začnejo na ozemlju te pogodbenice;
(b) vseh postajah na Antarktiki, kjer so prisotni njeni državljani; in
(c) vsem vojaškem osebju ali opremi, ki jo pogodbenica namerava namestiti na Antarktiko v skladu z določbami drugega odstavka I. člena te pogodbe.
1. Za lažje izvajanje nalog opazovalcev v skladu s to pogodbo in ne glede na stališče posamezne pogodbenice o jurisdikciji nad vsemi drugimi osebami na Antarktiki, so opazovalci, imenovani v skladu s prvim odstavkom VII. člena, in znanstveno osebje, ki se izmenjuje v skladu s pododstavkom 1(b) III. člena te pogodbe, ter člani spremljajočega osebja glede vseh dejanj ali opustitev dejanj, ki se zgodijo med njihovim bivanjem na Antarktiki zaradi opravljanja nalog, izključno pod jurisdikcijo pogodbenice, katere državljani so.
2. Ne glede na določbe prvega odstavka tega člena in do sprejetja ukrepov v skladu s pododstavkom 1(e) IX. člena se pogodbenice, ki so glede izvajanja jurisdikcije na Antarktiki v kakršnemkoli sporu, nemudoma posvetujejo med seboj, da bi dosegle rešitev, sprejemljivo za vse.
1. Predstavniki pogodbenic, navedenih v preambuli te pogodbe, se sestanejo v Canberri v dveh mesecih po začetku veljavnosti pogodbe, nato pa v ustreznih intervalih in krajih, da si izmenjajo informacije, se posvetujejo o vprašanjih skupnega interesa, ki zadevajo Antarktiko, ter pripravijo in obravnavajo ukrepe v podporo načelom in ciljem pogodbe in jih predlagajo svojim vladam, tudi ukrepe v zvezi z:
(a) uporabo Antarktike samo v miroljubne namene;
(b) omogočanjem znanstvenih raziskav na Antarktiki;
(c) omogočanjem mednarodnega znanstvenega sodelovanja na Antarktiki;
(d) podporo uresničevanju pravic do pregleda v skladu s VII. členom pogodbe;
(e) vprašanji, ki se nanašajo na izvajanje jurisdikcije na Antarktiki;
(f) zaščito in ohranjanjem živih virov na Antarktiki.
2. Vsaka pogodbenica, ki pristopi k pogodbi v skladu s XIII. členom, ima pravico do imenovanja predstavnikov, ki se udeležujejo zasedanj iz prvega odstavka tega člena v času, ko pogodbenica izkazuje svoj interes na Antarktiki z izvajanjem pomembne znanstvenoraziskovalne dejavnosti na Antarktiki, kot je na primer postavitev znanstvene postaje ali odpošiljanje znanstvene odprave.
3. Poročila opazovalcev iz VII. člena te pogodbe se posredujejo predstavnikom pogodbenic, ki se udeležujejo zasedanj iz prvega odstavka tega člena.
4. Ukrepi iz prvega odstavka tega člena začnejo veljati, ko jih potrdijo vse pogodbenice, katerih predstavniki so imeli pravico do udeležbe na zasedanjih, ki so bila sklicana za obravnavo teh ukrepov.
5. Vsaka pravica ali vse pravice, določene v tej pogodbi, se lahko uveljavljajo od datuma začetka veljavnosti pogodbe ne glede na to, ali so bili v skladu s tem členom predlagani, obravnavani ali potrjeni kakršnikoli ukrepi v podporo uresničevanju teh pravic.
Vsaka pogodbenica se zavezuje, da si bo v skladu z Ustanovno listino Organizacije združenih narodov ustrezno prizadevala, da na Antarktiki nihče ne izvaja dejavnosti, ki so v nasprotju z načeli ali cilji te pogodbe.
1. Če med dvema ali več pogodbenicami pride do spora glede razlage ali izvajanja te pogodbe, se pogodbenici ali pogodbenice v sporu med seboj posvetujejo, da bi spor rešile s pogajanji, preiskavo, mediacijo, spravo, arbitražo, sodno poravnavo ali na drug miroljuben način po lastni izbiri.
2. Vsak spor te narave, ki ni bil rešen na ta način, se v vsakem posameznem primeru s soglasjem vseh strank v sporu predloži v reševanje Meddržavnemu sodišču; tudi če stranke v sporu ne dosežejo soglasja o predložitvi zadeve Meddržavnemu sodišču, jih to ne odvezuje odgovornosti za nadaljnje iskanje rešitve po katerikoli miroljubni poti iz prvega odstavka tega člena.
1. (a) Ta pogodba se lahko kadarkoli spremeni ali dopolni s soglasjem vseh pogodbenic, katerih predstavniki imajo pravico do udeležbe na zasedanjih iz IX. člena. Vsaka tovrstna sprememba ali dopolnitev začne veljati, ko depozitar prejme uradno obvestilo vseh pogodbenic o ratifikaciji spremembe ali dopolnitve.
(b) Sprememba ali dopolnitev začne veljati za vse druge pogodbenice, katerih uradno obvestilo o ratifikaciji je prejel depozitar. Če pogodbenica ne pošlje uradnega obvestila o ratifikaciji v roku dveh let od datuma začetka veljavnosti spremembe ali dopolnitve v skladu z določbami pododstavka 1(a) tega člena, se šteje, da je odstopila od te pogodbe na datum izteka navedenega roka.
2. (a) Če po izteku tridesetih let od datuma začetka veljavnosti te pogodbe katerakoli pogodbenica, katere predstavniki imajo pravico do udeležbe na zasedanjih iz IX. člena, v sporočilu depozitarju zahteva sklic koerence vseh pogodbenic, se taka konferenca skliče v najkrajšem možnem času, da se pregleda izvajanje pogodbe.
(b) Takoj po koncu konference depozitar sporoči vsem pogodbenicam vsako spremembo ali dopolnitev te pogodbe, ki jo potrdi večina pogodbenic, zastopanih na konferenci, in tudi večina tistih, katerih predstavniki imajo pravico do udeležbe na zasedanjih iz IX. člena, ta sprememba ali dopolnitev pa začne veljati v skladu z določbami prvega odstavka tega člena.
(c) Če sprememba ali dopolnitev v skladu z določbami pododstavka 1(a) tega člena ne začne veljati v roku dveh let po datumu, ko je bila sporočena vsem pogodbenicam, lahko katerakoli pogodbenica kadarkoli po poteku tega roka uradno obvesti depozitarja o odstopu od te pogodbe; odstop začne veljati dve leti po datumu, ko depozitar prejme njeno uradno obvestilo.
1. To pogodbo morajo države podpisnice ratificirati. K pogodbi lahko pristopijo vse države, ki so članice Organizacije združenih narodov, ali katerakoli druga država, ki se jo povabi, naj pristopi k pogodbi, s soglasjem vseh pogodbenic, katerih predstavniki imajo pravico do udeležbe na zasedanjih iz IX. člena te pogodbe.
2. Ratifikacijo te pogodbe ali pristop k njej vsaka država izvede v skladu s svojimi ustavnimi postopki.
3. Listine o ratifikaciji in listine o pristopu se deponirajo pri Vladi Združenih držav Amerike, ki je s to pogodbo določena za depozitarja.
4. Depozitar obvesti vse države podpisnice in pristopnice o datumih deponiranja listin o ratifikaciji ali pristopu ter o datumu začetka veljavnosti te pogodbe in vsake spremembe ali dopolnitve te pogodbe.
5. Ko vse države podpisnice deponirajo listine o ratifikaciji, začne ta pogodba veljati za te države in države, ki so deponirale listine o pristopu. Za vsako državo pristopnico začne pogodba veljati, ko ta deponira listino o pristopu.
6. Depozitar registrira to pogodbo v skladu s 102. členom Ustanovne listine Organizacije združenih narodov.
Ta pogodba, ki je sestavljena v angleškem, francoskem, ruskem in španskem jeziku, pri čemer so vse različice enako verodostojne, se deponira v arhivu Vlade Združenih držav Amerike, ki vladam držav podpisnic in pristopnic pošlje ustrezno overjene kopije te pogodbe.
V POTRDITEV NAVEDENEGA so spodaj podpisani pooblaščenci podpisali to pogodbo.
SESTAVLJENO v Washingtonu prvega decembra tisoč devetsto devetinpetdeset.
Za izvajanje pogodbe skrbi ministrstvo, pristojno za okolje in prostor.
Ta zakon začne veljati petnajsti dan po objavi v Uradnem listu Republike Slovenije – Mednarodne pogodbe.
Št. 801-01/19-1/10
Ljubljana, dne 31. januarja 2019
EPA 366-VIII
mag. Dejan Židan l.r.
