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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2004-246/annex-I/article-19",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2004/246",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision of 2 March 2004 authorising the Member States to sign, ratify or accede to, in the interest of the European Community, the Protocol of 2003 to the International Convention on the Establishment of an International Fund for Compensation for Oil Pollution Damage, 1992, and authorising Austria and Luxembourg, in the interest of the European Community, to accede to the underlying instruments (2004/246/EC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2004-246",
  "path": "annex/I/article/19",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Signature, ratification, acceptance, approval and accession",
  "text": "1. This Protocol shall be open for signature at London from 31 July 2003 to 30 July 2004.\n2. States may express their consent to be bound by this Protocol by:\n(a) signature without reservation as to ratification, acceptance or approval; or\n(b) signature subject to ratification, acceptance or approval followed by ratification, acceptance or approval; or\n(c) accession.\n3. Only Contracting States to the 1992 Fund Convention may become Contracting States to this Protocol.\n4. Ratification, acceptance, approval or accession shall be effected by the deposit of a formal instrument to that effect with the Secretary-General.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2004/246/annex/I/article/19",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}