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4. The present Protocol may be ratified, accepted, approved or 

 acceded to only by States which have ratified, accepted, approved or 

 acceded to the Convention referred to in Article II. 



Article V 



1. Eatification, acceptance, approval or accession shall be effected 

 by the deposit of a formal instrument to that effect with the Secretary- 

 General of the Organization. 



2. Any instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession 

 deposited after the entry into force of an amendment to the present 

 Protocol with respect to all existing Parties or after the completion of 

 all measures required for the entry into force of the amendment with 

 respect to all existing Parties shall be deemed to apply to the Protocol 

 as modified by the amendment. 



Article VI 



1. The present Protocol shall enter into force on the ninetieth day 

 following the date on which fifteen States have deposited instruments 

 of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession with the Secretary- 

 General of the Organization, provided however that the present Pro- 

 tocol shall not enter into force before the Convention referred to in 

 Article II has entered into force. 



2. For each State which subsequently ratifies, accepts, approves or 

 accedes to it, the present Protocol shall enter into force on the ninetieth 

 day after the deposit by such State of the appropriate instrument. 



Article VII 



1. The present Protocol may be denounced by any Party at any 

 time after the date on which the Protocol enters into force for that 

 Party. 



2. Denunciation shall be effected by the deposit of an instrument to 

 that effect with the Secretary-General of the Organization. 



3. Denunciation shall take effect one year, or such longer period as 

 may be specified in the instrument of denunciation, after its deposit 

 wdth the Secretary-General of the Organization. 



4. Denunciation of the Convention referred to in Article II by a 

 Party shall be deemed to be a denunciation of the present Protocol by 

 that Party. Such denunciation shall take effect on the same day as the 

 denunciation of the Convention takes effect in accordance with para- 

 graph 3 of Article XII of that Convention. 



Article VIII 



1. A conference for the purpose of revising or amending the present 

 Protocol may be convened by the Organization. 



2. The Organization shall convene a conference of Parties to the 

 present Protocol for the purpose of revising or amending it at the re- 

 quest of not less than one-third of the Parties. 



