CHAPTER XXVIII

FISCAL MATTERS1aAdditional Protocol to the Multilateral Convention for the Avoidance of Double Taxation of Copyright RoyaltiesMadrid, 13 December 1979Not yet in forcesee paragraph 2 which reads as follows: "(a) This Protocol shall be signed and shall be subject to ratification, acceptance or accession by the signatory States, or may be acceded to, in accordance with the provisions of Article 11 of the Convention. (c) Any Contracting State may denounce this Protocol in accordance with provisions of Article 14 of the Convention, it being understood, however, that a Contracting State denouncing the Convention must at the same time also denounce this Protocol. (d) The provisions of Article 16 of the Convention shall apply to this Protocol.".StatusSignatories3Parties4TextDoc. of <a href="/doc/source/docs/unesco-wipo-E-F.pdf" target="_blank">UNESCO</a> and <a href="/doc/source/docs/trt_unesco3-E.pdf" target="_blank">WIPO</a>.See "Note" at the beginning of chapter XXVIII.1 (a).

ParticipantSignatureAcceptance(A), Accession(a), Succession(d), RatificationBenin 3 Aug 2017 aCameroon13 Dec 1979 Czech Republic<superscript>1</superscript>30 Sep 1993 dHoly See13 Dec 1979 Israel13 Dec 1979 Liberia16 Sep 2005 aSlovakia<superscript>1</superscript>28 May 1993 d1Czechoslovakia had acceded (See<a href="../doc/publication/CN/1981/CN.287.1981-Eng.pdf" target="_blank"> C.N.287.1981</a>) to the Protocol on 24 September 1981. See also note 1 under “Czech Republic” and note 1 under “Slovakia” in the “Historical Information”.