International
Tropical Timber Agreement, 1994
Concluded
at Geneva on 26 January 1994
ENTRY INTO FORCE: 1
January 1997, provisionally and in whole, in accordance with article 41 (3).1
REGISTRATION: 1 January
1997, No. 33484.
TEXT: Doc. TD/TIMBER.2/L.8
and depositary notification C.N.89.1995.TREATIES-2 of 22 May 1995
(procès-verbal of rectification of the the Arabic, Chinese, English, French,
Russian and Spanish authentic texts).
STATUS: Signatures: 49. Parties:
54.
Note: The Agreement was
adopted on 26 January 1994 at Geneva by the United Nations Conference on
Tropical Timber, 1993. It is the successor agreement to the International
Tropical Timber Agreement, 1983, which expired on 31 March 1994. It was opened
for signature at United Nations Headquarters, from 1 April 1994 until one month
after the date of its entry into force, by Governments invited to the United Nations
Conference for the Negotiation of a Successor Agreement to the International
Tropical Timber Agreement, 1983, in accordance with article 38 (1).
Subsequently, the International Tropical
Timber Council, at its twenty-second session, held in Bolivia, from 21 to 29
May 1997, by Decision 2 (XXII) dated 23 May 1997, established the conditions
for accession to the Agreement and decided that the time limit for the
deposited of instruments of accession shall be the duration of the Agreement.
|
Participant |
Signature |
Provisional application |
Ratification, accession (a),
acceptance (A),
|
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Australia |
|
|
2 Feb 1996 s |
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Austria |
13 May 1996 |
|
16 May 1997 |
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Bolivia |
17 Aug 1995 |
|
17 Aug 1995 |
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Belgium |
13 May 1996 |
13 May 1996 |
|
|
Brazil |
13 Dec 1996 |
|
28 Nov 1997 |
|
Cambodia |
3 Feb 1995 |
|
3 Feb 1995 A |
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Cameroon |
22 Dec 1994 |
31 Aug 1995 |
|
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Canada |
3 May 1995 |
|
23 May 1996 |
|
Central African Republic |
|
23 May 1997 |
|
|
China |
22 Feb 1996 |
|
31 July 1996 AA |
|
Colombia |
8 Nov 1995 |
9 Oct 1996 |
|
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Congo |
22 Jun 1994 |
25 Oct 1995 |
|
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Côte d'Ivoire |
9 Sep 1996 |
9 Sep 1996 |
31 Jan 1997 |
|
Democratic Republic of the Congo |
17 Dec 1996 |
27 Mar 1997 |
|
|
Denmark |
13 May 1996 |
|
13 May 1996 |
|
Ecuador |
1 Jun 1994 |
|
6 Sep 1995 |
|
Egypt |
8 Nov 1994 |
15 May 1996 |
|
|
European Community |
13 May 1996 |
13 May 1996 |
|
|
Fiji |
27 Jan 1995 |
27 Jan 1995 |
|
|
Finland |
13 May 1996 |
13 May 1996 |
|
|
France |
13 May 1996 |
28 Oct 1996 |
|
|
Gabon |
27 May 1994 |
2 Aug 1995 |
|
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Germany |
30 Aug 1995 |
30 Aug 1995 |
|
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Ghana |
12 Jul 1995 |
|
28 Aug 1995 |
|
Greece |
13 May 1996 |
|
13 Oct 1997 |
|
Guyana |
13 Sep 1996 |
|
27 Aug 1997 |
|
Honduras |
9 May 1995 |
2 Nov 1995 |
|
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India |
17 Sep 1996 |
|
17 Oct 1996 |
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Indonesia |
21 Apr 1994 |
|
17 Feb 1995 |
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Ireland |
14 May 1996 |
|
|
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Italy |
7 May 1996 |
|
25 Jun 1998 |
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Japan |
13 Dec 1994 |
13 Dec 1994 |
9 May 1995 A |
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Liberia |
|
|
9 Dec 1994 s |
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Luxembourg |
13 May 1996 |
13 May 1996 |
|
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Malaysia |
14 Feb 1995 |
|
1 Mar 1995 |
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Myanmar |
6 Jul 1995 |
|
31 Jan 1996 |
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Nepal |
|
23 May 1997 |
|
|
Netherlands2 |
6 Jul 1995 |
6 Jul 1995 |
|
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New Zealand |
|
|
6 Jun 1995 s |
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Norway |
25 Jan 1995 |
|
1 Feb 1995 |
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Panama |
22 Jun 1994 |
4 May 1995 |
4 Apr 1996 |
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Papua New Guinea |
28 Aug 1995 |
28 Aug 1995 |
13 May 1996 |
|
Peru |
29 Aug 1994 |
|
21 Sep 1995 |
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Philippines |
29 Sep 1995 |
26 Feb 1996 |
|
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Portugal |
13 May 1996 |
|
|
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Republic of Korea |
12 Sep 1995 |
|
12 Sep 1995 |
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Spain |
12 Jan 1996 |
12 Jan 1996 |
15 Jan 1997 |
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Suriname |
|
|
24 Aug 1998 a |
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Sweden |
13 May 1996 |
|
13 May 1996 |
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Switzerland |
29 Aug 1995 |
|
10 Jun 1996 |
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Thailand |
10 Apr 1996 |
|
25 Jul 1996 |
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Togo |
12 Jul 1994 |
|
4 Oct 1995 A |
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Trinidad and Tobago |
|
|
29 Dec 1998 a |
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United Kingdom |
13 May 1996 |
13 May 1996 |
|
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United States of America |
1 Jul 1994 |
|
14 Nov 1996 A |
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Venezuela |
4 Oct 1995 |
|
2 Mar 1998 |
Declarations
and Reservations
(Unless otherwise indicated, the declarations and reservations were made upon
ratification, accession, acceptance,
approval or definitive signature.)
european
community
Declaration:
[Same
declaration, mutatis mutandis, as the
one made by Italy.]
italy
Upon signature:
Declaration:
"Italy interprets the terms of ITTA 1994
as follows:
a) unless the scope of the agreement is
changed pursuant to article 35, the agreement shall refer solely to tropical
timber and tropical forests;
b) any financial contribution other than the
contribution to the administrative budget provided for in article 19 shall be
entirely voluntary."
Notes:
1 The conditions required
under paragraphs 1 and 2 of article 56 of the Agreement not having been
fulfilled, the Secretary-General convened on 13 September 1996 a meeting of the
Governments and intergovernmental organization which had deposited instruments
of ratification, acceptance or approval, or signed the Agreement definitively
or had notified the provisional application of the Agreement, in accordance
with its article 41 (3). At this meeting it was decided to put the Agreement
into force provisionally and in whole among them as of 1 January 1997. It was
also decided that the Governments of Bolivia, Liberia, Norway, Peru and Togo
(which did not participate in the meeting) could notify to the
Secretary-General their acceptance of the above decision and in the event of
such notification, they would be deemed to apply the Agreement provisionally as
of 1 January 1997. Subsequently, Peru and Norway notified the Secretary-General
of their acceptance.
2 For the Kingdom in Europe.