Examples of using Amendment procedure in English and their translations into Spanish
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III. The tools for change: the amendment procedure.
An amendment procedure within a treaty may contain provisions governing the following.
Recommendations of the Working Group on the amendment procedure to the Statutes.
The amendment procedure was used because it was not possible to introduce fully-fledged constitutional reform.
Mr. Ndiaye(Observer for Senegal) said that it was important to establish who would be able to initiate an amendment procedure.
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An amendment procedure under Article 16 of the Convention was considered too cumbersome for the envisaged change.
Mr. Chong(Singapore) said that his delegation shared the Secretariat's views regarding the usefulness of an amendment procedure and opted for variant B.
Article 127 provides that:"No amendment procedure may be undertaken or pursued when the integrity of the territory is undermined.
He also advised the Commission to consider the practical implications of deleting draft paragraph 3 of variant B regarding the amendment procedure.
In addition, the amendment procedure may cause difficulties for States that have to adopt international texts into domestic legislation.
Article 47 of the Single Convention provides for the possibility of the contracting Parties requesting that the Convention be modified through the 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.
The Secretariat of the Basel Convention will assist the Parties by acting as liaison with the Depositary with a view to facilitating the implementation of the amendment procedure, as necessary.
Many representatives said that it was premature to decide on the details of an amendment procedure while the details of other provisions to be adopted remained unclear.
Another approach, which attracted a great deal of attention, was a proposal to convert the Partial Test-Ban Treaty into a comprehensive test-ban treaty through an amendment procedure.
Even if the Commission initiated the amendment procedure, the Contracting States, who might not all be members of the Commission, should take over from there.
The Depositary considered that the proposed correction appeared to be anamendment rather than a correction and should therefore be subject to the amendment procedure provided for under article 18 of the Convention.
Rejection of the proposed amendment is the result of not continuing with the amendment procedure within the time frame permitted under Article 89 Number 2, Section III of the Rules of the Chamber of Deputies.
To request the Ad Hoc Working Group of Legal Experts on Non-compliance with the Montreal Protocol to consider procedures for expediting the amendment procedure under Article 9 of the Vienna Convention;
An amendment to the text of the Ramsar Convention providing an amendment procedure(Article 10 bis) and additional language versions of the Convention, adopted by an Extraordinary meeting of the Conference of the Parties in Paris in 1982.
On the other hand, his delegation had been persuaded by other delegations that variant B would help to clarify the existing de facto amendment procedure and it was therefore prepared to support that variant.
As to the amendment procedure, we would simply have to follow in the footsteps of the 1963 enlargement, when only two small amendments to the Charter were necessary: one on the number of non-permanent seats, the other on the new majority needed to adopt a resolution.
To accept the recommendation that there is no need to expedite the amendment procedure under Article 9 of the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer;
In the United Kingdom, Lord Nicholls has noted in a recent decision of the House of Lords that subsequent practice would not be the right way to modify a treaty,an end which should only be achieved through an amendment procedure.
The delegation did not deem 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.
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.
There was some support for the retention for the time being 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's brief that would cover structure, style,referencing and footnoting, amendment procedure, distributions lists, abbreviations, glossaries.
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.
At its 103rd session the Council examined the report of the Working Group for the Review of the Amendment Procedure of the Statutes and Financing Rules, and approved the proposal made by the Working Group to modify Article 33 and endorsed the text as proposed in document CE/103/7(f) CE/DEC/13CIII.