Decision of 21 September 2001 Amending the Agreement For Cooperation In Dealing With Pollution Of The North Sea By Oil And Other Harmful Substances, 1983, To Enable The Accession Of Ireland To The Agreement
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[Done at Bonn, on 13 September 1983 and at Rotterdam-Spijkenisse, in the Netherlands, on 21 September 2001 [Ireland's instrument of accession deposited on 1 February 2010; Entered into force with respect to Ireland on 1 April 2010]
On 21 September 2001 in accordance with Article 20 of this Agreement Rotterdam Spijkenisse a decision of the Contracting Parties to the Convention concluded in order to allow Ireland's accession to the Convention. This accession amendment to the Agreement and the Annex as a result. The text of the decision reads as follows:
Decision by the Contracting Parties to the Bonn Agreement to enable the accession of Ireland to the Agreement
The Contracting Parties to the Agreement for cooperation in dealing with pollution of the North Sea by oil and other harmful substances, 1983 (''the Agreement"),
Recalling Article 20 of the Agreement, which provides that the Contracting Parties may unanimously invite any other coastal State of the North East Atlantic area to accede to the Agreement, and that in such a case Article 2 of the Agreement and its Annex shall be amended as necessary,
Having expressed their unanimous invitation to Ireland to accede to the Agreement,
Welcoming the wish of Ireland to accede to the Agreement,
Wishing to incorporate the effects of such bilateral agreements under Article 17 of the Agreement on responsibility zones as have been made, and have come into force, to give effect to the recommendation on that subject adopted by the Meeting of Contracting Parties on 22 September 2000,
Decide by unanimous vote that
Paragraph 1 – Amendment of Article 2
Article 2 of the Agreement shall be amended so that it reads as follows:
'Article 2
For the purpose of this Agreement, the North Sea area means the area of sea comprising:
a) the North Sea proper, southwards of latitude 61°0'00.00" N,
b) the Skagerrak, the southern limit of which is determined east of the Skaw by the latitude 57°44'43.00" N,
c) the English Channel and its approaches, bounded on the south and west by the line defined in Part I of the Annex to this Agreement;
d) the other waters, comprising the Irish Sea, the Celtic Sea, the Malin Sea, the Great Minch, the Little Minch, part of the Norwegian Sea, and parts of the North East Atlantic, bounded on the west and north by the line defined in Part II of the Annex to this Agreement."
Paragraph 2 – Amendment of the Annex to the Agreement
The Annex to the Agreement shall be amended so that it reads as set out in the appendix to this decision.
Paragraph 3 – Entry into force
This decision shall enter into force on the first day of the second month following the date of deposit by Ireland of its instrument of accession to the Agreement,
Provided that, in the Annex as amended by paragraph 2 of this Decision:
a) paragraphs 2, 3 and 5 of Part III of that Annex;
b) to the extent that they apply to the south of the parallel of latitude 61°0'00.00" N and east of the meridian of longitude 0°30'00.00" W, paragraphs 6 and 8 of Part III of that Annex; and
c) the second point in Part IV of that Annex shall not enter into force unless and until modifications to the same effect made by the relevant Contracting Parties have entered into force under Article 17 of the Agreement.
