Abstract
Art 16 sets out how the consent of a State to be bound by ratification, acceptance, approval or accession is completed on the international plane. It thereby fixes the critical date as of which contractual relations with the other States are established. However, by enumerating the exchange between the contracting States, the deposit with the depositary or the notification to the contracting States or to the depositary as three different possibilities, it again underlines the flexibility of the Convention with respect to treaty making.
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Art CXXI General Treaty reads: “The present Treaty shall be ratified and the ratifications exchanged within six months.”
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See generally on the negotiations of this treaty W Baumgart Der Friede von Paris 1856 (1970).
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J Basdevant La conclusion et la rédaction des traités et instruments diplomatiques autres que les traités (1926) 15 RdC 539, 585–586.
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FO Wilcox The Ratification of International Conventions (1935) 37.
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ICJ Right of Passage over Indian Territory (Portugal v India) (Preliminary Objections) [1957] ICJ Rep 125, 146.
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[1962-II] YbILC 174.
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Final Draft, Text of Art 13, 201.
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Final Draft, Commentary to Art 13, 201 paras 1–4.
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F Horchani in Corten/Klein Art 16 MN 4.
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Aust 84.
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JM Jones Full Powers and Ratification (1946) 61–62.
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H Blix Treaty-Making Power (1960) 53.
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ICJ Arbitral Award Made by the King of Spain on 23 December 1906 (Honduras v Nicaragua) [1960] ICJ Rep 192, 208.
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S Bastid Les traités dans la vie internationale – conclusion et effets (1985) 44.
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ICJ Land and Maritime Boundary between Cameroon and Nigeria (Cameroon v Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea intervening) (Preliminary Objections) [1998] ICJ Rep 275, para 31.
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F Horchani in Corten/Klein Art 16 MN 23.
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Summary of Practice of the Secretary-General as Depositary of Multilateral Treaties, UN Doc ST/LEG/7/Rev.1, para 157.
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Ibid para 158.
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Aust 106.
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Dissenting F Horchani in Corten/Klein Art 16 MN 31.
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Ibid MN 32.
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Dörr, O., Schmalenbach, K. (2012). Article 16. Exchange or deposit of instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession. In: Dörr, O., Schmalenbach, K. (eds) Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19291-3_18
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