1. Any Party may propose amendments to this Protocol.
2. Amendments to this Protocol shall be adopted at an ordinary session of
the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to this
Protocol. The text of any proposed amendment to this Protocol shall be
communicated to the Parties by the secretariat at least six months before the
meeting at which it is proposed for adoption. The secretariat shall also
communicate the text of any proposed amendments to the Parties and signatories
to the Convention and, for information, to the Depositary.
3. The Parties shall make every effort to reach agreement on any proposed
amendment to this Protocol by consensus. If all efforts at consensus have been
exhausted, and no agreement reached, the amendment shall as a last resort be
adopted by a three-fourths majority vote of the Parties present and voting at
the meeting. The adopted amendment shall be communicated by the secretariat to
the Depositary, who shall circulate it to all Parties for their acceptance.
4. Instruments of acceptance in respect of an amendment shall be deposited
with the Depositary. An amendment adopted in accordance with paragraph 3 above
shall enter into force for those Parties having accepted it on the ninetieth
day after the date of receipt by the Depositary of an instrument of acceptance
by at least three fourths of the Parties to this Protocol.
5. The amendment shall enter into force for any other Party on the ninetieth day after the date on which that Party deposits with the Depositary its instrument of acceptance of the said amendment.