Note: The Protocol entered into force with respect to (he Philippines, December 19, 1974.
Reference: This Protocol is also published in XI DFA TS No. 1, p. 3.
THE ASSEMBLY OF THE INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION
HAVING MET in its Eighteenth Session, at Vienna, on the fifth day of July 1971,
HAVING NOTED that it is the general desire of Contracting States "to enlarge the membership of the Air Navigation Commission,
HAVING CONSIDERED it proper to increase the membership of that body from twelve to fifteen, and
HAVING CONSIDERED it necessary to amend, for the purpose aforesaid, the
Convention on International Civil Aviation done at Chicago on the
seventh day of December 1944,
(1) APPROVED, in accordance with the provisions of Article
94 (a) of the Convention aforesaid, the following proposed amendment to
the said Convention:
"In Article 56 of the Convention the expression 'twelve members' shall
be replaced by 'fifteen members'",
(2) SPECIFIED, pursuant to the provisions of the said Article 94 (a) of
the said Convention, eighty as the number of Contracting States upon
whose ratification the aforesaid amendment shall come into force, and
(3) RESOLVED that the Secretary General of the International Civil
Aviation Organization shall draw up a Protocol, in the English, French
and Spanish languages, each of which shall be of equal authenticity,
embodying the amendment above-mentioned and the matters hereinafter
appearing:
a) The Protocol shall be signed by the President of the Assembly and its Secretary General.
b) The Protocol shall be open to ratification by any State which has
ratified or adhered to the said Convention on International Civil
Aviation.
CONSEQUENTLY, pursuant to the aforesaid action of the Assembly,
This Protocol has been drawn up by the Secretary General of the
Organization; This Protocol shall be open to ratification by any State
which has ratified or adhered to the said Convention on International
Civil Aviation;
The instruments of ratification shall be deposited with the International Civil Aviation Organization;
This Protocol shall come into force, in respect of the States which have
ratified it, on the date on which the eightieth instrument of
ratification is so deposited;
The Secretary General shall immediately notify all Contracting States of
the date of deposit of each ratification of this Protocol;
The Secretary General shall immediately notify all States parties to the
said Convention of the date on which this Protocol comes into force;
With respect to any Contracting State ratifying this Protocol after the
date aforesaid, the Protocol shall come into force upon deposit of its
instrument of ratification with the International Civil Aviation
Organization.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the President and the Secretary General of the
Eighteenth Session of the Assembly of the International Civil Aviation
Organization, being authorized thereto by the Assembly, sign this
Protocol.
DONE at Vienna on the seventh day of July of the year one thousand nine
hundred and seventy-one, in a single document in the English, French and
Spanish languages, each of which shall be of equal authenticity. This
Protocol shall remain deposited in the archives of the International
Civil Aviation Organization, and certified copies thereof shall be
transmitted by the Secretary General of the Organization to all States
parties to the Convention on International Civil Aviation done at
Chicago on the seventh day of December 1944.