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[接上页] it specifies an earlier date. However, the date of entry into force under the provisions of this paragraph shall not be earlier than the date of entry into force provided for in paragraph 1 of this Article. Article 14 Application by dependent territories 1. Any State may, at the time of becoming a Contracting Party to this Convention, or at any time thereafter, declare by notification given to the Secretary General that the Convention shall extend to all or any of the territories for whose international relations it is responsible, named in its notification. Such notification shall take effect on the first of January which falls at least twelve months but not more than twenty-four months after the date of the receipt thereof by the Secretary General, unless an earlier date is specified in the notification. However, this Convention shall not apply to such territories before it has entered into force for the State concerned. 2. This Convention shall cease to have effect for a named territory on the date when the Contracting Party ceases to be responsible for the international relations of that territory or on such earlier date as may be notified to the Secretary General under the procedure of Article 15. Article 15 Denunciation This Convention is of unlimited duration. Nevertheless any Contracting Party may denounce it and such denunciation shall take effect one year after the receipt of the instrument of denunciation by the Secretary General, unless a later date is specified therein. Article 16 Amendment procedure 1. The Council may recommend amendments to this Convention to the Contracting Parties. 2. Any Contracting Party may notify the Secretary General of an objection to a recommended amendment and may subsequently withdraw such objection within the period specified in paragraph 3 of this Article. 3. Any recommended amendment shall be deemed to be accepted six months after the date of its notification by the Secretary General provided that there is no objection outstanding at the end of this period. 4. Accepted amendments shall enter into force for all Contracting Parties on one of the following dates: (a) Where the recommended amendment is notified before 1 April, the date shall be the first of January of the second year following the date of such notification, or (b) Where the recommended amendment is notified on or after 1 April, the date shall be the first of January of the third year following the date of such notification. 5. The statistical nomenclatures of each Contracting Party and its Customs tariff nomenclature or, in the case provided for under paragraph 1(c) of Article 3, its combined tariff/statistical nomenclature, shall be brought into conformity with the amended Harmonized System on the date specified in paragraph 4 of this Article. 6. Any State or Customs or Economic Union signing without reservation of ratification, ratifying or acceding to this Convention shall be deemed to have accepted any amendments thereto which, at the date when it becomes a Contracting Party, have entered into force or have been accepted under the provisions of paragraph 3 of this Article. Article 17 Rights of contracting parties in respect of the Harmonized System On any matter affecting the Harmonized System, paragraph 4 of Article 6, Article 8 and paragraph 2 of Article 16 shall confer rights on a Contracting Party: (a) In respect of all parts of the Harmonized System which it applies under the provisions of this Convention; or (b) Until the date when this Convention enters into force in respect of it in accordance with the provisions of Article 13, in respect of all parts of the Harmonized System which it is obligated to apply at that date under the provisions of this Convention; or (c) In respect of all parts of the Harmonized System, provided that it has formally undertaken to apply the full six-digit Harmonized System within the period of three years referred to in paragraph 5 of Article 4 and until the expiration of that period. Article 18 Reservations No reservations to this Convention shall be permitted. Article 19 Notifications by the Secretary General The Secretary General shall notify Contracting Parties, other signatory States, Member States of the Council which are not Contracting Parties to this Convention, and the Secretary General of the United Nations, of the following: (a) Notifications under Article 4; (b) Signatures, ratifications and accessions as referred to in Article 12; (c) The date on which the Convention shall enter into force in accordance with Article 13; (d) Notifications under Article 14; (e) Denunciations under Article 15; (f) Amendments to the Convention recommended under Article 16; (g) Objections in respect of recommended amendments under Article 16, and, where appropriate, their withdrawal; and (h) Amendments accepted under Article 16, and the date of their entry into force. |