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if such casualty has produced a major deleterious effect upon the marine 



environment.*^ 



(2) Each Contracting State undertakes to supply the Organization with 

 information concerning the findings of such investigation,'" when it judges that 

 such information may assist in determining v^hat changes in the present 

 Convention might be desirable. 



ARTICLE 13. — SIGNATURE, RATIFICATION, ACCEPTANCE, APPROVAL AND ACCESSION 



(1) The present Convention shall remain open for signiature for six months 



from 1973, and shall thereafter remain open for accession. States 



[Members of the United Nations, or of any of the Specialized Agencies, or of the 

 International Atomic P^nergy Agency or partieis to the Statute of the Interna- 

 tional Court of Justice] '^ may become Parties to the present Convention by : 



(a) Signature without reservation as to ratification, acceptance or approval, or 



(b) Signature subject to ratification, acceptance or approval, followed by rati- 

 fication, acceptance or approval, or 



(c) Accession. 



(2) Ratification, acceptance, approval or accession shall be effected by the 

 deiwsit of an instrument to that effect with the Organization. 



(3) The Organization shall inform all States which have signed the present 

 Convention or acceded to it of the deix)sit of any new instrument and the date 

 of the deposit. The Organization shall also inform all States which have already 

 signed the present Convention of any signature effected during the six months 

 from , 1973. 



ARTICLE 14. — RESERVATIONS 



Alternative I 



No reservations may be made to the present Convention." 



Alternative II 



Each Contracting State may, at the time of signing, ratifying, accepting, ap- 

 proving or acceding to the present Convention, declare that it does not consider 

 itself bound by any of the following provisions (to be specified).^ 



ARTICLE 15. OPTIONAL ANNEXES 



(1) A State may at the time of signing, ratifying, accepting, approving or ac- 

 ceding to the present Convention declare that it does not accept any one or all 

 of Annexes III, IV and V (hereinafter referred to as "optional Annexes") of the 

 pre.sent Convention. [Every new Annex to the present Convention shall be con- 

 sidered as an optional Annex]." 



(2) A State which has declared that it is not bound by an optional Annex may 

 at any time accept such Annex by depositing with the Organization an Instru- 

 ment of the kind referred to in Article 13 (2 ) . 



(3) A State which makes a declaration under paragraph (1) of this Article 

 in respect of an optional Annex and which has not subsequently accepted that 

 Annex in accordance with paragraph (2) of this Article shall not be under any 

 obligation nor entitled to claim any privileges under the pre.sent Convention in 

 respect of matters related to such Annex and all references to Contracting 

 States in the present Convention shall not include that State insofar as matters 

 related to such Annex are concerned. 



*" (1) Several delegations suggested that such investigation should be limited to casual- 

 ties where the Administration judges that it may assist In determining what changes in 

 the present Convention might be desirable. 



(ii) Some delegations expressed the view that an additional provision should be made 

 authorizing a Contracting State to investigate casualties causing pollution which occur 

 in areas generally recognized as international waters but which may afiPect the waters 

 of the investigating State. Other delegations reserved their positions on this suggestion 

 stating that jurisdictional and Law of the Sea issues were involved which could preclude 

 such a provision. 



BO Some delegations suggested the addition of the following words to this paragraph : 

 "and other investigations conducted on casualties occurring to ships entitled to fly the 

 flag of another State". 



" Several delegations suggested that the words In square brackets should be deleted. 



6- Several delegations favoured the deletion of Alternative I. 



^ Some delegations considered that reservations may be made not only for Articles but 

 also for certain Regulations in Annexes. 



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