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ARTICLE-8: Facilitation and clarification of compliance     [go to this ARTICLE]
... 14. The requested State Party shall grant access for the fact-finding mission to all areas and installations under its control where facts relevant to the compliance issue could be expected to be collected. This shall be subject to any arrangements that the requested State Party considers necessary for: ...


ARTICLE-16: Ratification, acceptance, approval or accession     [go to this ARTICLE]
... Ratification, acceptance, approval or accession ...
... 1. This Convention is subject to ratification, acceptance or approval of the Signatories. 2. It shall be open for accession by any State which has not signed the Convention. ...
... 3. The instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession shall be deposited with the Depositary. ...


ARTICLE-17: Entry into force     [go to this ARTICLE]
... 1. This Convention shall enter into force on the first day of the sixth month after the month in which the 40th instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession has been deposited. ...
... 2. For any State which deposits its instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession after the date of the deposit of the 40th instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession, this Convention shall enter into force on the first day of the sixth month after the date on which that State has deposited its instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession. ...
... 2. For any State which deposits its instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession after the date of the deposit of the 40th instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession, this Convention shall enter into force on the first day of the sixth month after the date on which that State has deposited its instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession. ...
... 2. For any State which deposits its instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession after the date of the deposit of the 40th instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession, this Convention shall enter into force on the first day of the sixth month after the date on which that State has deposited its instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession. ...


ARTICLE-18: Provisional application     [go to this ARTICLE]
... Any State may at the time of its ratification, acceptance, approval or accession, declare that it will apply provisionally paragraph 1 of Article 1 of this Convention pending its entry into force. ...