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Division (a) Article 1

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  1. 1..

    In paragraph 10 the words ‘of: (i) this Protocol; or (ii) an amendment to annex I or II, where the stationary source becomes subject to the provisions of this Protocol only by virtue of that amendment’ are replaced by the words ‘for a Party of the present Protocol. A Party may decide not to treat as a new stationary source any stationary source for which approval has already been given by the appropriate competent national authority at the time of entry into force of the Protocol for that Party and provided that the construction or substantial modification is commenced within five years of that date’.

  2. 2..

    A new paragraph 12 is added after paragraph 11 as follows:

    ‘12.

    The terms “this Protocol”, “the Protocol” and “the present Protocol” mean the 1998 Protocol on Heavy Metals, as amended from time to time.’