CHAPTER XXVII

ENVIRONMENT9Agreement on the Conservation of Small Cetaceans of the Baltic, North East Atlantic, Irish and North Seas *New York, 17 March 1992Entry into force29 March 1994, in accordance with article 8(5).1Registration29 March 1994, No. 30865StatusSignatories6Parties10TextUnited Nations, <i>Treaty Series </i>, vol. 1772, p. 217; and C.N.338.1995.TREATIES-2 of 22 November 1995 (procès-verbal of rectification of the French authentic text).The Agreement was approved at Geneva on 13 September 1991, during the Third Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals pursuant to article IV (4) of the said Convention, which was done at Bonn on 23 June 1979 ("Bonn Convention"). The Agreement was open for signature at United Nations Headquarters in New York on 17 March 1992 and will remain open for signature at United Nations Headquarters until its entry into force. * The Amendment to the Agreement (see Chapter XXVII-9(a) herein), which entered into force on 3 February 2008, changed the name of the Agreement. The Agreement was previously known as "Agreement on the Conservation of Small Cetaceans of the Baltic and North Seas".

ParticipantSignatureDefinitive signature(s), Ratification, Accession(a), Acceptance(A), Approval(AA)Belgium 6 Nov 1992 14 May 1993 Denmark19 Aug 1992 29 Dec 1993 AAEuropean Union 7 Oct 1992 Finland13 Sep 1999 aFrance 3 Oct 2005 aGermany 9 Apr 1992 6 Oct 1993 Lithuania27 Jun 2005 aNetherlands<superscript>2</superscript>29 Jul 1992 29 Dec 1992 AAPoland18 Jan 1996 aSweden31 Mar 1992 sUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland<superscript>3</superscript>16 Apr 1992 13 Jul 1993 1 "Any State that becomes a Party to the Agreement after the entry into force of an Amendment shall, failing an expression of a different intention by that State: a) be considered as a Party to the Agreement as amended; and b) be considered as a Party to the unamended Agreement in relation to any Party not bound by the Amendment."2For the Kingdom in Europe.3For the United Kingdom of Great Britain and the Bailiwick of Guernsey. For the Bailiwick of Jersey (notification received on 26 September 2002).