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- Any Party may propose amendments to the Convention.
- Amendments to the Convention shall be adopted at an ordinary session of the
Conference of the Parties. The text of any proposed amendment to the Convention shall
be communicated to the Parties by the secretariat at least six months before the meeting at
which it is proposed for adoption. The secretariat shall also communicate proposed
amendments to the signatories to the Convention and, for information, to the
Depositary.
- The Parties shall make every effort to reach agreement on any proposed amendment to
the Convention by consensus. If all efforts at consensus have been exhausted, and no
agreement reached, the amendment shall as a last resort be adopted by a three-fourths
majority vote of the Parties present and voting at the meeting. The adopted amendment
shall be communicated by the secretariat to the Depositary, who shall circulate it to all
Parties for their acceptance.
- Instruments of acceptance in respect of an amendment shall be deposited with the
Depositary. An amendment adopted in accordance with paragraph 3 above shall enter
into force for those Parties having accepted it on the ninetieth day after the date of receipt
by the Depositary of an instrument of acceptance by at least three fourths of the Parties to
the Convention.
- The amendment shall enter into force for any other Party on the ninetieth day after the
date on which that Party deposits with the Depositary its instrument of acceptance of the
said amendment.
- For the purposes of this Article, "Parties present and voting" means Parties present
and casting an affirmative or negative vote.
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