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United Nations: Final Act of Conference of Plenipotentiaries on a Code of Conduct for Liner Conferences*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 April 2017

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Treaties and Agreements
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1974

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[Reproduced from U.N.C.T.A.D. Document TD/CODE/ll/Rev. 1 of May 9, 1974. The text of the Covention appears at I.L.M. page 917. The Resolutions adopted by the Conference appear at page 947.]

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** [The Introductory Note was prepared for International Legal Materialsby Franklin K. Willis of the Office of the Legal Adviser, Department of State, member of the U.S. Delegation to the Geneva Conference on a Code of Conduct for Liner Conferences.]

* The vote was 72 to 7, with 5 abstentions. Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States cast negative votes. The Netherlands, Canada, Greece, Italy, and New Zealand abstained.

* [The States whose representatives signed the Final Act appear at I.L.M. page 917. The Convention was opened for signature on July 1, 1974. As of July 17, 1974, no signatories were reported.]

* The States whose representatives signed the Final Act are: Algeria; Argentina; Australia; Bangladesh; Belgium; Bhutan; Bolivia; Brazil; Bulgaria; Burundi; Canada; Chile; China; Colombia; Cuba; Czechoslovakia; Democratic Yemen; Denmark; Ecuador; Egypt; Finland; France; Gabon; German Democratic Republic; Germany, Federal Republic of; Ghana; Greece; Guatemala; Guinea; Honduras; Hungary; India; Indonesia; Iran; Iraq; Italy; Ivory Coast; Jamaica; Japan; Kenya; Khmer Republic; Kuwait; Liberia; Libyan Arab Republic; Madagascar; Malaysia; Mexico; Morocco; Netherlands; New Zealand; Nicaragua; Nigeria; Norway; Pakistan; Panama; Peru; Philippines; Poland; Republic of Korea; Republic of Viet Nam; Romania; Senegal; Singapore; Spain; Sri Lanka; Sudan; Sweden; Switzerland; Thailand; Trinidad and Tobago; Tunisia; Turkey; Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic; Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; United Arab Emirates; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; United Republic of Cameroon; United Republic of Tanzania; United States of America; Uruguay; Venezuela; Yugoslavia; Zaire.

a At its 9th plenary meeting on 6 April 1974, the Conference adopted the following understanding recommended by its Third Main Committee:

“In accordance with its terns, the present Convention will be open to participation by all States, and the Secretary-General of the United Nations will act as depositary. It is the understanding of the Conference that the Secretary-General, in discharging his functions as depositary of a convention or other multilateral legally binding instrument with an “All-States” clause, will follow the practice of the General Assembly of the United Nations in implementing such a clause and, whenever advisable, will request the opinion of the General Assembly before receiving a signature or an instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession.”

b The tonnage requirements for the purposes of Article 49(1) are set out in the report of the United Nations Conference of Plempotentiaries on a Code of Conduct for liner Conferences on the second part of its session (TD/CODE/10), annex I.