HC Deb 26 January 1993 vol 217 cc634-5W
Mr. Cohen

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his answer of 12 November 1992,Official Report, columns 932–44, which of the treaties listed, under each of the side headings, have been signed but not ratified by Her Majesty's Government.

Mr. Lennox-Boyd

The treaties in question are as listed. Command Paper references are given for ease of reference.

Animals and conservation

  • European Convention for the Protection of Animals for Slaughter.
  • Signed at Strasbourg on 10 May 1979.
  • Miscellaneous Series No. 002/1980, Cmnd. 7776.
  • European Convention for the Protection of Vertebrate
  • Animals used for Experimental and Other Scientific Purposes.
  • Signed at Strasbourg on 18 March 1986.
  • Miscellaneous Series No. 004/1986, Cmnd. 9884.
  • Convention on the Protection and the Use of Transboundary
  • Watercourses and International Lakes.
  • Signed at Helsinki on 17 March 1992.
  • Miscellaneous Series No. 005/1993 to be published 5 February 1993.
  • Convention on the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents.
  • Signed at Helsinki on 17 March 1992.
  • Certified copy of Convention awaited..
  • Agreement on the Conservation of Small Cetaceans of the Baltic and North Seas.
  • Signed at New York on 17 March 1992.
  • Miscellaneous Series No. 002/1993, Cmnd. 2119.
  • Convention on Biological Diversity.
  • Adopted at Nairobi on 11 May 1992.
  • Miscellaneous Series No. 003/1993, Cmnd. 2127.

Human rights

  • Protocol No. 4 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, signed at Rome on 4 November 1950.
  • Signed at Strasbourg on 16 September 1963.
  • Miscellaneous Series No. 006/1964, Cmnd. 2309.
  • Protocol amending the European Social Charter.
  • Signed at Turin on 21 October 1991.
  • Miscellaneous Series No. 005/1992, Cmnd. 1940.
  • Convention on the Participation of Foreigners in Public Life at Local Level.
  • Signed at Strasbourg on 5 February 1992.
  • Miscellaneous Series No. 008/1992, Cmnd. 1964.
  • Protocol No. 10 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, signed at Rome on 4 November 1950.
  • Signed at Strasbourg on 25 March 1992.
  • Miscellaneous Series No. 012/1992, Cmnd. 2031.

Disarmament

  • Treaty on Open Skies.
  • Signed at Helsinki on 24 March 1992.
  • Miscellaneous Series No. 013/1992, Cmnd. 2067.
  • Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the use of certain Conventional Weapons which may be deemed to be excessively injurious or to have indiscriminate effects.
  • Concluded at Geneva on 10 October 1980.
  • Miscellaneous Series No. 023/1981, Cmnd. 8370.

Pollution

  • Protocol to the 1979 Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution concerning the Control of Emissions of Volatile Organic Compounds or their Transboundary Fluxes.
  • Adopted at Geneva on 18 November 1991.
  • Miscellaneous Series No. 010/1992, Cmnd. 1970.
  • Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage resulting from Exploration for and Exploitation of Seabed Mineral Resources (with Final Act of the Intergovernmental Conference on the Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage from Offshore Operations 20–31 October 1975 and 13–17 December 1976).
  • Signed at London on 1 May 1977.
  • Miscellaneous Series No. 008/1977, Cmnd. 6791.
  • Protocol of 1984 to amend the International Convention on the Establishment of an International Fund for Compensation for Oil Pollution Damage, 1971.
  • Adopted at London on 25 May 1984.
  • Miscellaneous Series No. 007/1986, Cmnd. 9926.
  • Protocol of 1984 to amend the International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage, 1969.
  • Adopted at London on 25 May 1984.
  • Miscellaneous Series No. 008/1986, Cmnd. 9927.
  • Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal.
  • Adopted at Basel on 22 March 1989.
  • Miscellaneous Series No. 004/1990, Cm. 984.
  • Protocol [further] amending the Convention for the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping from Ships and Aircraft, done at Oslo on 15 February 1972.
  • Signed at Oslo on 5 December 1989.
  • Miscellaneous Series No. 010/1990, Cm. 1039.
  • Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context.
  • Adopted at Espoo (Finland) on 25 February 1991.
  • Miscellaneous Series No. 015/1991, Cm. 1645.

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