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STATUS AS AT : 25-05-2013 05:07:54 EDT

CHAPTER XI

TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATIONS

D . Water Transport

8 . United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sea

New York, 11 December 2008

Not yet in force

in accordance with article 94 which reads as follows: "1. This Convention enters into force on the first day of the month following the expiration of one year after the date of deposit of the twentieth instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession. 2. For each State that becomes a Contracting State to this Convention after the date of the deposit of the twentieth instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession, this Convention enters into force on the first day of the month following the expiration of one year after the deposit of the appropriate instrument on behalf of that State.

Status

Signatories : 24. Parties : 2

Text

Doc. A/RES/63/122; C.N.563.2012.TREATIES-XI.D.8 of 11 October 2012 (Proposal of corrections to the original text of the Convention (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish authentic texts) and to the Certified True Copies) and C.N.105.2013.TREATIES-XI.D.8 of 25 January 2013 (Corrections to the original text of the Convention (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish authentic texts) and to the Certified True Copies).

Note

The Convention, of which the Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish texts are equally authentic, was adopted on 11 December 2008 during the sixty-third session of the General Assembly by resolution A/RES/63/122. In accordance with its article 88 (1), the Convention shall be open for signature by all States at Rotterdam, the Netherlands, on 23 September 2009, and thereafter at the Headquarters of the United Nations in New York.

Participant	Signature	Approval(AA), Acceptance(A), Accession(a), Ratification
Armenia	29 Sep 2009
Cameroon	29 Sep 2009
Congo	23 Sep 2009
Democratic Republic of the Congo	23 Sep 2010
Denmark	23 Sep 2009
France	23 Sep 2009
Gabon	23 Sep 2009
Ghana	23 Sep 2009
Greece	23 Sep 2009
Guinea	23 Sep 2009
Luxembourg	31 Aug 2010
Madagascar	25 Sep 2009
Mali	26 Oct 2009
Netherlands	23 Sep 2009
Niger	22 Oct 2009
Nigeria	23 Sep 2009
Norway	23 Sep 2009
Poland	23 Sep 2009
Senegal	23 Sep 2009
Spain	23 Sep 2009	19 Jan 2011
Sweden	20 Jul 2011
Switzerland	23 Sep 2009
Togo	23 Sep 2009	17 Jul 2012
United States of America	23 Sep 2009

Spain

Declaration made upon signature and confirmed upon ratification:

For the text of the declaration, please see annex to depositary notification C.N.790.2009.TREATIES-23 of 30 October 2009 (signature) and C.N.21.2011.TREATIES-1 of 21 January 2011 (ratification).