Amendment to the Convention
At its second meeting, the Meeting of the Parties decided to amend the Convention as set out below.
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DECISION II/14
AMENDMENT TO THE ESPOO CONVENTION
The Meeting,
Wishing to modify the Espoo
Convention with a view to clarifying that the public
that may participate in procedures under the Convention
includes civil society and, in particular, nongovernmental
organizations,
Recalling paragraph 13 of the
Oslo Declaration of the Ministers of the Environment
and the European Community Commissioner for the
Environment assembled at Oslo on the occasion of
the first meeting of the Parties to the Espoo Convention,
Wishing to allow States situated
outside the UN/ECE region to become Parties to the
Convention,
Adopts the following amendments
to the Convention:
(a) At the end of Article 1 (x),
after persons insert
and, in accordance with national
legislation or practice, their associations,
organizations or groups
(b) In Article 17, after paragraph
2, insert a new paragraph reading
3. Any other State, not referred
to in paragraph 2 of this Article, that is a
Member of the United Nations may accede to the
Convention upon approval by the Meeting of the
Parties. The Meeting of the Parties shall not
consider or approve any request for accession
by such a State until this paragraph has entered
into force for all the States and organizations
that were Parties to the Convention on 27 February
2001.
and renumber the remaining
paragraphs accordingly.
(c) At the end of Article 17, insert
a new paragraph reading
7. Any State or organization that
ratifies, accepts or approves this Convention
shall be deemed simultaneously to ratify, accept
or approve the amendment to the Convention set
out in decision II/14 taken at the second meeting
of the Parties.