# Council Decision of 2 June 2004 concerning the conclusion of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (2004/513/EC), Article 35: Ratification, acceptance, approval, formal confirmation or accession


1. This Convention shall be subject to ratification, acceptance, approval or accession by States and to formal confirmation or accession by regional economic integration organisations. It shall be open for accession from the day after the date on which the Convention is closed for signature. Instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval, formal confirmation or accession shall be deposited with the Depositary.
2. Any regional economic integration organisation which becomes a Party to the Convention without any of its Member States being a Party shall be bound by all the obligations under the Convention. In the case of those organisations, one or more of whose Member States is a Party to the Convention, the organisation and its Member States shall decide on their respective responsibilities for the performance of their obligations under the Convention. In such cases, the organisation and the Member States shall not be entitled to exercise rights under the Convention concurrently.
3. Regional economic integration organisations shall, in their instruments relating to formal confirmation or in their instruments of accession, declare the extent of their competence with respect to the matters governed by the Convention. These organisations shall also inform the Depositary, who shall in turn inform the Parties, of any substantial modification in the extent of their competence.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2004/513/annex/I/article/35 (the official version)
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