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Article 7

1. The Committee may invite the State Party concerned to include in its
report under article 35 of the Convention details of any measures taken in
response to an inquiry conducted under article 6 of the present Protocol.

2. The Committee may, if necessary, after the end of the period of six
months referred to in article 6, paragraph 4, invite the State Party concerned to
inform it of the measures taken in response to such an inquiry.

Article 8

Each State Party may, at the time of signature or ratification of the
present Protocol or accession thereto, declare that it does not recognize the
competence of the Committee provided for in articles 6 and 7.

Article 9

The Secretary-General of the United Nations shall be the depositary of
the present Protocol.

Article 10

The present Protocol shall be open for signature by signatory States and
regional integration organizations of the Convention at United Nations
Headquarters in New York as of 30 March 2007.

Article 11

The present Protocol shall be subject to ratification by signatory States
of the present Protocol which have ratified or acceded to the Convention. It
shall be subject to formal confirmation by signatory regional integration
organizations of the present Protocol which have formally confirmed or
acceded to the Convention. It shall be open for accession by any State or
regional integration organization which has ratified, formally confirmed or
acceded to the Convention and which has not signed the Protocol.

Article 12

1. “Regional integration organization” shall mean an organization
constituted by sovereign States of a given region, to which its member States
have transferred competence in respect of matters governed by the Convention
and the present Protocol. Such organizations shall declare, in their instruments
of formal confirmation or accession, the extent of their competence with
respect to matters governed by the Convention and the present Protocol.

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