ANNEX IISupplementary provisions
ANNEX II Amendment of Article 14 Article 14 is amended as follows: (a) The following paragraph 1a is inserted after paragraph 1: ‘1a. This Agreement shall also be open for signature by regional integration organisations. For the purpose of this Agreement, a “regional integration organisation” means any organisation which is constituted by sovereign States of a given region, which has competence in respect of certain matters governed by this Agreement and has been duly authorized to sign and to ratify, accept, approve or accede to this Agreement. For the purposes of amending Appendices 1, 1B, 1C, 2 and 3, the representative of a regional integration organisation Contracting Party to the Agreement delivers the votes of its constituent Member States without their presence being necessary in the vote.’ (b) Paragraph 5 is replaced by the following: ‘5. In respect of each State or regional integration organisation which ratifies, or accedes to, this Agreement after the deposit of the eighth instrument of ratification or accession as referred to in paragraph 4 of this Article, the Agreement shall enter into force one hundred and eighty days after the deposit by that State or regional integration organisation of its instrument of ratification or accession.’