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UNECE Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment to the Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context (Kiev, 2003)
23. Ratification, acceptance, approval and
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25. Withdrawal |
Article 24
Entry into force
1. This Protocol shall enter into force on the
ninetieth day after the date of deposit of the sixteenth
instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval
or accession.
2. For the purposes of paragraph 1 above, any instrument
deposited by a regional economic integration organization
referred to in article 21
shall not be counted as additional to those deposited
by States members of such an organization.
3. For each State or regional economic integration
organization referred to in article
21 which ratifies, accepts or approves this
Protocol or accedes thereto after the deposit of
the sixteenth instrument of ratification, acceptance,
approval or accession, the Protocol shall enter
into force on the ninetieth day after the date of
deposit by such State or organization of its instrument
of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession.
4. This Protocol shall apply to plans, programmes,
policies and legislation for which the first formal
preparatory act is subsequent to the date on which
this Protocol enters into force. Where the Party
under whose jurisdiction the preparation of a plan,
programme, policy or legislation is envisaged is
one for which paragraph 3 applies, this Protocol
shall apply to plans, programmes, policies and legislation
for which the first formal preparatory act is subsequent
to the date on which this Protocol comes into force
for that Party.