Examples of using Amendment procedure in English and their translations into Arabic
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III. The tools for change: the amendment procedure.
An amendment procedure under Article 16 of the Convention was considered too cumbersome for the envisaged change.
She called for a simplified amendment procedure that does not require ratification.
Mr. Bellenger(France)said that his delegation was in favour of retaining a provision for an amendment procedure.
Article 127 provides that:" No amendment procedure may be undertaken or pursued when the integrity of the territory is undermined.".
After the note verbale is distributed,it will be for a State or States Parties to activate the amendment procedure in article 20.
The delegation did notdeem it juridically appropriate to subject the instrument's amendment procedure to the General Assembly's approval, since the matter was exclusively the competence of the States parties.
He also advised the Commission to consider the practical implications of deleting draftparagraph 3 of variant B regarding the amendment procedure.
Of course,the need for such an article would also depend on what overall amendment procedure the Commission decided to adopt for the draft convention.
Mr. Pinzón Sánchez(Colombia) said that, in the light of the Secretariat ' s comments,his delegation supported the inclusion of a provision for an amendment procedure.
Mr. Chung Wan-yong(Republic of Korea)said that article 22 should be retained because an amendment procedure was a common and necessary component of any international convention.
In response to a question from the Chairman, he said that although he did not have the texts of all UNCITRAL conventions before him,he would be surprised if any instrument omitted to make provision for an amendment procedure.
The Article 37 on the Chapter16 of the Constitution of Indonesia manages constitutional amendment procedure, yet it also specifies that the unitary state status of Indonesia is unmodifiable.
JS3 recommended that Fiji(i) remove the claw-back clause that undermined the entire Bill of Rights;(ii) involve Parliament in appointing judges and'independent ' commissionsand offices; and(iii) allow flexibility in the amendment procedure.
Some delegations supported the suggestion to request the Secretary-General to initiate an amendment procedure in order to include the provisions of the Convention in existing SOFAs, SOMAs and host country agreements.
Mr. Chong(Singapore) said that his delegation shared the Secretariat 's views regarding the usefulness of an amendment procedure and opted for variant B.
One study haspointed out that no other constitution in the world has an amendment procedure that requires the approval of more than 75 per cent of the members of both parliamentary chambers or allows for the military to have veto power over constitutional amendments. .
On the other hand, his delegation had been persuaded by other delegations that variant B wouldhelp to clarify the existing de facto amendment procedure and it was therefore prepared to support that variant.
In article 29 of the Covenant,States parties had already agreed to an amendment procedure, and the importance of economic, social and cultural rights in international law required that the proper legal procedure set out in article 29 be followed.
At the same time, extensive consultations with the participation of the civil society and religious organizations were launched in order tostart the amendment procedure of the existing law on the religious organizations.
In particular, there were strongobjections to making express reference in the draft convention to an amendment procedure requiring formal voting by contracting States, as it was suggested that the practice of taking decisions by consensus, which the Commission had consistently applied throughout the years, was more appropriate for the formulation of uniform rules on private law matters.
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna(CITES Convention)was so modified by a resolution of the Conference of the Parties in 1986, despite an amendment procedure having been included in the Convention.
(c) There was some support for the retention for the timebeing of the draft article 99 tacit amendment procedure, since it was thought to allow for a faster amendment process than a protocol to the convention.
In order to maintain a standardized format and approach to each doctrinal publication, the Department needs to produce an author ' sbrief that would cover structure, style, referencing and footnoting, amendment procedure, distributions lists, abbreviations, glossaries, etc.
The proposal by Switzerland regarding articles 110 and 111 was of considerable merit:she was inclined to favour an amendment procedure dispensing with the need for an automatic review after a certain number of years had elapsed.
The protocols examined for this review all limit decisions regarding amendment to the protocol parties, either by their own terms(for example, the LRTAP protocols) or as a result of a provision in their parent convention(for example, Vienna Convention, article 9,which specifies the amendment procedure for its protocols).
Lastly, it should also be noted that the Constitution explicitly states that it cannot be amendedso long as the country is divided:" No amendment procedure may be initiated or pursued when the integrity of the national territory is threatened"(article 127).
The view was expressed that the difficulties involved in the required amendment to the Charter should not be overemphasized, bearing in mind the ongoing discussions concerning the restructuring of the Security Council,and that resort could be had to the amendment procedure provided for in Article 109 of the Charter.
He simply wanted to know the reason for prohibiting political parties from invoking section 98 of the Tanzanian Constitution,which set out an amendment procedure by which the union could be dissolved and which would enable the people to exercise their legitimate right to self- determination.
With regard to the" enemy State" clauses of the Charter, his delegation supported the Special Committee ' s recommendation that those clauses should be deletedas soon as possible by using the amendment procedure set out in Article 108 of the Charter; it hoped that that proposal would be adopted by consensus.