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Art.23 |
Article 23 - Amendments of the Treaty |
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Art.23.1 |
23.1 Amendments to this Treaty may be proposed by any Contracting Party. |
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Art.23.2 |
23.2 Amendments to this Treaty shall be adopted at a session of the Governing Body. The text of any proposed amendment shall be communicated to Contracting Parties by the Secretary at least six months before the session at which it is proposed for adoption. |
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Art.23.3 |
23.3 All amendments to this Treaty shall only be made by consensus of the Contracting Parties present at the session of the Governing Body. |
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Art.23.4 |
23.4 Any amendment adopted by the Governing Body shall come into force among Contracting Parties having ratified, accepted or approved it on the ninetieth day after the deposit of instruments of ratification, acceptance or approval by two-thirds of the Contracting Parties. Thereafter the amendment shall enter into force for any other Contracting Party on the ninetieth day after that Contracting Party deposits its instrument of ratification, acceptance or approval of the amendment. |
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Art.23.5 |
23.5 For the purpose of this Article, an instrument deposited by a Member Organization of FAO shall not be counted as additional to those deposited by member states of such an organization. |
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Art.28 |
Article 28 - Entry into force |
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Art.28.1 |
28.1 Subject to the provisions of Article 29.2, this Treaty shall enter into force on the ninetieth day after the deposit of the fortieth instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession, provided that at least twenty instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession have been deposited by Members of FAO. |
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Art.28.2 |
28.2 For each Member of FAO and any State that is not a Member of FAO but is a Member of the United Nations, or any of its specialized agencies or of the International Atomic Energy Agency that ratifies, accepts, approves or accedes to this Treaty after the deposit, in accordance with Article 28.1, of the fortieth instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession, the Treaty shall enter into force on the ninetieth day following the deposit of its instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession. |
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Art.33 |
Article 33 - Termination |
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Art.33.1 |
33.1 This Treaty shall be automatically terminated if and when, as the result of withdrawals, the number of Contracting Parties drops below forty, unless the remaining Contracting Parties unanimously decide otherwise. |
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Art.33.2 |
33.2 The Depositary shall inform all remaining Contracting Parties when the number of Contracting Parties has dropped to forty. |
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Art.33.3 |
33.3 In the event of termination the disposition of assets shall be governed by the financial rules to be adopted by the Governing Body. |
