Article 23 Amendments to the Treaty

Amendments to this Treaty may be proposed by any Contracting Party.

Amendments to this Treaty shall be adopted at a session of the Governing Body. The text of any proposed amendment shall be communicated to Contracting Parties by the Secretary at least six months before the session at which it is proposed for adoption.

All amendments to this Treaty shall only be made by consensus of the Contracting Parties present at the session of the Governing Body.

Any amendment adopted by the Governing Body shall come into force among Contracting Parties having ratified, accepted or approved it on the 90th day after the deposit of instruments of ratification, acceptance or approval by two-thirds of the Contracting Parties. Thereafter the amendment shall enter into force for any other Contracting Party on the 90th day after that Contracting Party deposits its instrument of ratification, acceptance or approval of the amendment.

For the purpose of this Article, an instrument deposited by a Member Organisation of the FAO shall not be counted as additional to those deposited by Member States of such an organisation.