4 DE JULHO DE 1992

964-(17)

Article XX

1 — Any State Party may propose amendments to this Treaty. The text of a proposed amendments shall be submitted to the depositary, which shall circulate it to all the States Parties.

2 — If an amendment is approved by all the States Parties, it shall enter into force in accordance with the procedures set forth in article xxii governing the entry into force of this Treaty.

Article XXI

1 — 46 months after entry into force of this Treaty, and at five-year intervals thereafter, the depositary shall convene a conference of the States Parties to conduct a review of the operation of this Treaty.

2 — The depositary shall convene an extraordinary conference of the States Parties, if requested to do so by any State Party which considers that exceptional circumstances relating to this Treaty have arisen, in particular, in the event that a State Party has announced its intention to leave its group of States Parties or to join the other group of States Parties, as defined in article n, paragraph 1, subparagraph A). In order to enable the other States Parties to prepare for this conference, the request shall include the reason why that State Party deems an extraordinary conference to be necessary. The conference shall consider the circumstances set forth in the request and their effect on the operation of this Treaty. The conference shall open no later than 15 days after receipt of the request and, unless it decides otherwise, shall last no longer than three weeks.

3 — The depositary shall convene a conference of the States Parties to consider an amendment proposed pursuant to article xx, if requested to do so by three or more States Parties. Such a conference shall open no later than 21 days after receipt of the necessary requests.

4 — In the event that a State Party gives notice of its decision to withdraw from this Treaty pursuant to article Xix, the depositary shall convene a conference of the States Parties which shall open no later than 21 days after receipt of the notice of withdrawal in order to consider questions relating to the withdrawal from this Treaty.

Article XXII

1 — This Treaty shall be subject to ratification by each State Party in accordance with its constitutional procedures. Instruments of ratification shall be deposited with the Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, hereby designated the depositary.

2 — This Treaty shall enter into force 10 days after instruments of ratification have been deposited by all States Parties listed in the preamble.

3 — The depositary shall promptly inform all States Parties of:

A) The deposit of each instrument of ratification;

B) The entry into force of this Treaty;

Q Any withdrawal in accordance with article xix and its effective date;

D) The text of any amendment proposed in accordance with article xx;

E) The entry into force of any amendment to this Treaty;

F) Any request to convene a conference in accordance with article xxi;

G) The convening of a conference pursuant to article xxi; and

H) Any other matter of which the depositary is required by this Treaty to inform the States Parties.

4 — This Treaty shall be registered by the depositary pursuant to article 102 of the Charter of the United Nations.

Article XXIII

The original of this Treaty, of which the English, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish texts area equally authentic, shall be deposited in the archives of the depositary. Duly certified copies of this Treaty shall be transmitted by the depositary to all the States Parties.

PROTOCOL ON EXISTING TYPES OF CONVENTIONAL ARMAMENTS AND EQUIPMENT

The States Parties hereby agree upon: a) lists, valid as of the date of Treaty signature, of existing types of conventional armaments and equipment subject to the measures of limitation, reduction, information exchange and verification; b) procedures for the provision of technical data and photographs relevant to such existing types of conventional armaments and equipment and c) procedures for updating the lists of such existing types of conventional armaments and equipment, in accordance with article n of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe of November 19, 1990, hereinafter referred to as the Treaty.

SECTION I

Existing types of conventional armaments and equipment limited by the Treaty

1 — Existing types of battle tanks are:

All models and versions of an existing type of battle tank listed above shall be deemed to be battle tanks of that type.