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fication, acceptance or approval thereof, or of accession thereto, by a state or regional economic integration organization which is a signatory to the Charter and a Contracting Party to the Energy Charter Treaty or on the same date as the Energy Charter Treaty enters into force, whichever is later.

2) For each state or regional economic integration organization for which the Energy Charter Treaty has entered into force and which ratifies, accepts, or approves this Protocol or accedes thereto after the Protocol has entered into force in accordance with paragraph 1), the Protocol shall enter into force on the thirtieth day after the date of deposit by such state or regional economic integration organization of its instrument of ratifiction, acceptance, approval or accession.

3) For the purposes of paragraph 1), any instrument deposited by a regional economic integration organization shall not be counted as additional to those deposited by member states of such organization.

Article 19 Reservations

No reservations may be made to this Protocol.

Article 20 Withdrawal

1) At any time after this Protocol has entered into force for a Contracting Party, that Contracting Party may give written notification to the depositary of its withdrawal from the Protocol.

2) Any Contracting Party which withdraws from the Energy Charter Treaty shall be considered as also having withdrawn from this Protocol.

3) The effective date of withdrawal under paragraph 1) shall be ninety days after receipt of notification by the depositary. The effective date of withdrawal under paragraph 2) shall be the same as the effective date of withdrawal from the Energy Charter Treaty.

Article 21 Depositary

The Government of the Portuguese Republic shall be the * depositary of this Protocol.

Article 22

Authentic texts

In witness whereof the undersigned, being duly authorized to that effect, have signed this Protocol in English, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish, of which every text is equally authentic, in one original, which will be deposited with the Government of the Portuguese Republic.

Done at Lisbon on the seventeenth day of December in the year one thousand nine hundred and ninety-four.

annex

Illustrative and non-exhaustive list of possible areas of cooperation pursuant to article 9

Development of energy efficiency programmes, including identifying energy efficiency barriers and potentials, and the development of energy labelling and efficiency standards.

Assessment of the environmental impacts of the energy cycle.

Development of economic, legislative and regulatory measures.

Technology transfer, technical assistance and industrial joint ventures subject to international property rights regimes and other applicable international agreements.

Research and development.

Education, training, information and statistics.

Identification and assessment of measures such as fiscal or other market-based instruments, including tradeable permits to take account of external, notably environmental, costs and benefits. ^

Energy analysis and policy formulation:

Assessment of energy efficiency potentials; Energy demand analysis and statistics; Development of legislative and regulatory measures; Integrated resource planning and demand side management; Environmental impact assessment, including major energy projects.

Evaluation of economic instruments for improving energy efficiency and environmental objectives.

Energy efficiency analysis in refining, conversion, transport and distribution of hydro-carbons.

Improving energy efficiency in power generation and transmission:

Cogeneration;

Plant component (boilers, turbines, generators, etc.); Network integration.

Improving energy efficiency in the building sector:

Thermal insulation standards, passive solar and ventilation;

Space heating and air conditioning systems; High efficiency low NOx burners; Metering technologies and individual metering; Domestic appliances and lighting.

Municipalities and local community services-.

District heating systems; ' Efficient gas distribution systems; Energy planning technologies; Twinning of towns or of other relevant territorial entities;

Energy management in cities and in public buildings; Waste management and energy recovery of waste.

Improving energy efficiency in the industrial sector: Joint ventures;

Energy cascading, cogeneration and waste heat recovery; Energy audits.