[Title] PROTOCOL TO AMEND THE CONVENTION SIGNED AT PARIS ON THE 22ND OF NOVEMBER 1928 RELATING TO INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS

PROTOCOL TO AMEND THE CONVENTION SIGNED AT PARIS ON THE 22ND OF NOVEMBER 1928 RELATING TO INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS

The Parties to the present Convention:

Considering that the rules and procedures established by the Convention relating to International Exhibitions, signed at Paris on the 22nd of November 1928, amended and supplemented by the Protocols of the 10th of May 1948 and the 16th of November 1966 have proved useful and necessary to the organisers of exhibitions as well as to participating countries;

Desirous of adapting to modern conditions the said rules and procedures, together with those relating to the organisation responsible for ensuring their application and of consolidating these and other provisions in a single instrument which will replace the 1928 Convention;

Have agreed as follows:

ARTICLE I

The objects of the present Protocol are:

a. to amend the rules and procedures concerning international exhibitions;

b. to amend the provisions regarding the operations of the International Exhibitions Bureau.

AMENDMENT OF THE CONVENTION ARTICLE II

The 1928 Convention is further amended by the present Protocol in accordance with the aims expressed in Article I. The text of the Convention as so amended is set out in the Appendix to the present Protocol of which it forms an integral part.

ARTICLE III

1. The present Protocol shall remain open for signature by Governments Parties to the 1928 Convention at Paris from November 30th, 1972 until November 29th, 1973 and thereafter shall remain open for accession by them.

2. Governments Parties to the 1928 Convention may become Parties to the present Protocol by:

a. signature without reservation as to ratification, acceptance or approval;

b. signature subject to ratification, acceptance or approval followed by ratification, acceptance or approval, or

c. accession.

3. Instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession shall be deposited with the Government of the French Republic.

ARTICLE IV

The present Protocol shall enter into force on the date on which twenty-nine States shall have become parties to it in accordance with the provisions of Article III. *1*

ARTICLE V

The provisions of the present Protocol shall not apply to the registration of an exhibition for which a date has been reserved by the Bureau International des Expositions not later than the meeting of the Administrative Council which immediately preceded the entry into force of the present Protocol in accordance with Article IV above.

ARTICLE VI

The Government of the French Republic shall inform the Governments of the Contracting Parties and also the Bureau International des Expositions of:

a. signatures made and ratifications, approvals, acceptances and accessions deposited in accordance with Article III;

b. the date on which the present Protocol enters into force in accordance with Article IV.

ARTICLE VII

As soon as the present Protocol enters into force, the Government of the French Republic shall cause it to be registered with the Secretariat of the United Nations in accordance with Article 102 of the Charter of the United Nations.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF the undersigned, being duly authorised thereto, have signed the present Protocol.

DONE AT PARIS this 30th day of November 1972 in the French language in a single copy which shall be deposited with the Government of the French Republic. The French Government shall transmit certified copies to the Governments of all the Parties to the 1928 Convention.


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{*1* 1 The present Protocol entered into force on the 9th of June 1980.}