Article 19
1. Any Party may propose amendments to this Protocol.
2. Amendments to this Protocol shall be adopted at an ordinary
session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of
the Parties to this Protocol. The text of any proposed amendment to
this Protocol shall be communicated to the Parties by the secretariat
at least six months before the meeting at which it is proposed for
adoption. The secretariat shall also communicate the text of any
proposed amendments to the Parties and signatories to the Convention
and, for information, to the Depositary.
3. The Parties shall make every effort to reach agreement on any
proposed amendment to this Protocol by consensus. If all efforts at
consensus have been exhausted, and no agreement reached, the
amendment shall as a last resort be adopted by a three-fourths
majority vote of the Parties present and voting at the meeting. The
adopted amendment shall be communicated by the secretariat to the
Depositary, who shall circulate it to all Parties for their
acceptance.
4. Instruments of acceptance in respect of an amendment shall be
deposited with the Depositary. An amendment adopted in accordance
with paragraph 3 above shall enter into force for those Parties
having accepted it on the ninetieth day after the date of receipt by
the Depositary of an instrument of acceptance by at least three
fourths of the Parties to this Protocol.
5. The amendment shall enter into force for any other Party on the
ninetieth day after the date on which that Party deposits with the
Depositary its instrument of acceptance of the said
amendment.
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