at least one contracting State or one contracting organization has accepted

the reservation.

5. For the purposes of paragraphs 2 and 4, and unless the treaty otherwise provides, a

reservation is considered to have been accepted by a State or an intemational

organization if it shall have raised no objection to the reservation by the end of a

period of twelve months after it was notified of the reservation or by the date on which

it expressed its consent to be bound by the treaty, whichever is later.

Article 21

Legal effects of reservations and of objections to reservations

1. A reservation established with regard to another party in accordance with articles 19,

20 and 23:

a) modifies for the reserving State or intemational organization in its relations

with that other party the provisions of the treaty to which the reservation

relates to the extent of the reservation; and

b) modifies those provisions to the sarne extent for that other party in its

relations with the reserving State or intemational organization.

2. The reservation does not modify the provisions of the treaty for the other parties to

the treaty inter se.

3. When a State or an intemational organization objecting to a reservation has not

opposed the entry into force of the treaty between itself and the reserving State or

organization, the provisions to which the reservation relates do not apply as between

the reserving State or organization and the objecting State or organization to the extent

of the reservation.

II SÉRIE-A — NÚMERO 43 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________

254