EUROPEAN CONVENTION PROVIDING A UNIFORM LAW
ON ARBITRATION
Strasbourg, 20.I.1966
The member States of the Council of Europe, signatory
hereto,
Considering that the aim of the Council of Europe
is to achieve greater unity among its members,
in particular by the adoption of common rules in
the legal field;
Convinced that the unification of national laws
would make for a more effective settlement of private
law disputes by arbitration and would facilitate
commercial relations between the member countries
of the Council of Europe;
Considering it desirable to adopt to this end a uniform law on arbitration
in civil and commercial matters,
Have agreed as follows:
Article 1
1 Each Contracting Party undertakes to incorporate
in its law, within six months of the date of entry
into force of this Convention in respect of that
Party, the provisions of the uniform law contained
in Annex I to this Convention.
2 Each Contracting Party has the right, in its
law to supplement the uniform law by provisions
designed to regulate questions for which no solutions
are provided, on condition that such provisions
are not incompatible with the uniform law.
3 Each Contracting Party has the right to provide
in its law, in respect of specific matters, that
disputes may not be referred to arbitration or
may be submitted to arbitration according to rules
other than those laid down in the uniform law.
4 Each Contracting Party has the right to declare,
at the time of signature of this Convention or
at the time of deposit of its instrument of ratification,
acceptance or accession, that it will apply the
uniform law only to disputes arising out of legal
relationships which are considered as commercial
under its national law.
Article 2
Each Contracting Party undertakes not to maintain
or introduce into its law provisions excluding
aliens from being arbitrators.
Article 3
Each Contracting Party shall,
for the purposes of the provisions of the uniform,
law define “judicial
authority”, “competent authority” and,
if need be, “registry of the court”.
Article 4
Each Contracting Party retains the right to determine
the conditions to be fulfilled by persons who may
represent or assist the parties before the arbitral
tribunal and, to that end, to amend the provisions
of paragraph 4 of Article 16 of the uniform law.
Article 5
Each Contracting Party may:
1 regard notification within the meaning of paragraph
1 of Article 28 of the uniform law as implying
either notification as provided for in paragraph
1 of Article 23 of the uniform law, or service,
and, in particular, service by one party on another
party;
2 regard notification under paragraphs 1 and
3 of Article 30 of the uniform law as implying
either notification by the authority which has
opposed the enforcement formula to the award or
service, and, in particular, service by one party
on another party.
The Contracting Party may,
if need be, replace the words “give notice to”, “notified” and “notification” by
the appropriate technical terms.
It shall inform the Secretary General of the
Council of Europe of its choice.
Article 6
Each Contracting Party may provide that the enforcement
formula within the meaning of paragraph 1 of Article
29, Article 30 and paragraph 1 of Article 31 of
the uniform law shall consist of an authorisation
to enforce or of any other legal process which,
under its law, enables an award to be enforced.
Article 7
Each Contracting Party shall have the right,
in its law, to make provision for and to regulate
the provisional enforcement of arbitral awards
which are still appealable before arbitrators.
Article 8
1 Each Contracting Party may, when signing this
Convention or depositing its instrument of ratification,
acceptance or accession, declare that it avails
itself of one or more of the reservations set forth
in Annex II to this Convention. No other reservation
shall be admissible.
2 Each Contracting Party may, at any time, by
means of a notification addressed to the Secretary
General of the Council of Europe, withdraw, wholly
or in part, a reservation made by it under the
preceding paragraph; the notification shall take
effect on the date of its receipt.
Article 9
The provisions of the present Convention shall
not affect the application of bilateral or multilateral
conventions on arbitration which have been or may
be concluded. This is subject to the right available
to a Contracting Party under Annex III to the present
Convention.
Article 10
1 Each Contracting Party shall communicate to
the Secretary General of the Council of Europe
the texts which, in implementation of this Convention,
will govern arbitration after the entry into force
of the Convention in respect of that Party.
2 The Secretary General shall transmit these
texts to the other member States of the Council
of Europe and to any State acceding to this Convention.
Article 11
1 This Convention shall be open to signature
by the member States of the Council of Europe.
It shall be subject to ratification or acceptance.
Instruments of ratification or acceptance shall
be deposited with the Secretary General of the
Council of Europe.
2 This Convention shall enter into force three
months after the date of the deposit of the third
instrument of ratification or acceptance.
3 In respect of a signatory State ratifying or
accepting subsequently the Convention shall come
into force three months after the date of the deposit
of its instrument of ratification or acceptance.
Article 12
1 After the entry into force of this Convention,
the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe
may invite any non?member State to accede thereto.
2 Such accession shall be effected by depositing
with the Secretary General of the Council of Europe
an instrument of accession, which shall take effect
three months after the date of its deposit.
Article 13
1 Any Contracting Party may, at the time of signature
or when depositing its instrument of ratification,
acceptance or accession, specify the territory
or territories to which this Convention shall apply.
2 Any Contracting Party may, when depositing
its instrument of ratification, acceptance or accession
or at any later date, by declaration addressed
to the Secretary General of the Council of Europe,
extend this Convention to any other territory or
territories specified in the declaration and for
whose international relations it is responsible
or on whose behalf it is authorised to give undertakings.
3 Any declaration made in pursuance of the preceding
paragraph may, in respect of any territory mentioned
in such declaration, be withdrawn according to
the procedure laid down in Article 14 of this Convention.
Article 14
1 This Convention shall remain in force indefinitely.
2 Any Contracting Party may, in so far as it
is concerned, denounce this Convention by means
of a notification addressed to the Secretary General
of the Council of Europe.
3 Such denunciation shall take effect six months
after the date of receipt by the Secretary General
of such notification.
Article 15
The Secretary General of the Council of Europe
shall notify the member States of the Council and
any State which has acceded to this Convention
of:
a any signature;
b any deposit of an instrument of ratification,
acceptance or accession;
c any date of entry into force of this Convention
in accordance with the provisions of Articles 11
and 12;
d any reservation made in pursuance of the provisions
of paragraph 1 of Article 8;
e the withdrawal of any reservation made in pursuance
of the provisions of paragraph 2 of Article 8;
f any communication received in pursuance of
the provisions of Articles 5 and 10;
g any declaration received in pursuance of the
provisions of Article 13;
h any notification received in pursuance of the
provisions of Article 14 and the date on which
the denunciation takes effect;
i any declaration or notification received in
pursuance of the provisions of Annex III.
In witness whereof the undersigned, being duly authorised thereto, have signed
this Protocol.
Done at Strasbourg, this 20th day of January
1966, in English and in French, both texts being
equally authoritative, in a single copy which shall
remain deposited in the archives of the Council
of Europe. The Secretary General shall transmit
certified copies to each of the signatory governments.
ANNEX I
Uniform Law
Article 1
Any dispute which has arisen or may arise out
of a specific legal relationship and in respect
of which it is permissible to compromise may be
the subject of an arbitration agreement.
Article 2
1 An arbitration agreement shall be constituted
by an instrument in writing signed by the parties
or by other documents binding on the parties and
showing their intention to have recourse to arbitration.
2 If, in an arbitration agreement, the parties
have referred to a particular arbitration procedure,
that procedure shall be deemed to be included in
the agreement.
Article 3
An arbitration agreement shall not be valid if
it gives one of the parties thereto a privileged
position with regard to the appointment of the
arbitrator or arbitrators.
Article 4
1 The judicial authority seized of a dispute
which is the subject of an arbitration agreement
shall, at the request of either party, declare
that it has no jurisdiction, unless, in so far
as concerns the dispute, the agreement is not valid
or has terminated.
2 An application to the judicial authority for
preservation or interim measures shall not be incompatible
with an arbitration agreement and shall not imply
a renunciation of the agreement.
Article 5
1 The arbitral tribunal shall be composed of
an uneven number of arbitrators. There may be a
sole arbitrator.
2 If the arbitration agreement provides for an
even number of arbitrators an additional arbitrator
shall be appointed.
3 If the parties have not settled the number
of arbitrators in the arbitration agreement and
do not agree on the number, the arbitral tribunal
shall be composed of three arbitrators.
Article 6
The parties may, either in the arbitration agreement
or subsequently thereto, appoint the sole arbitrator
or the arbitrators or entrust the appointment to
a third person. If the parties have not appointed
the arbitrators and have not agreed on a method
of appointment, each party shall, when the dispute
arises, appoint an arbitrator or an equal number
of arbitrators, as the case may be.
Article 7
1 The party who intends bringing a dispute before
an arbitral tribunal shall give notice to the other
party. The notice shall refer to the arbitration
agreement and specify the subject?matter of the
dispute, unless the arbitration agreement already
does so.
2 If there is more than one arbitrator, and if
the parties are entitled to appoint them, the notice
shall specify the arbitrator or arbitrators appointed
by the party invoking the arbitration agreement;
the other party shall be invited, in the notice,
to appoint the arbitrator or arbitrators whom he
is entitled to appoint.
3 If a third person has been entrusted with the
appointment of a sole arbitrator or of arbitrators
and has not done so, he also shall be given notice
in accordance with paragraph 1 and invited to make
the appointment.
4 The appointment of an arbitrator may not be
withdrawn after notification of the appointment.
Article 8
1 If the party or third person to whom notice
has been given in accordance with Article 7 has
not, within a period of one month from the notice,
appointed the arbitrator or arbitrators whom the
party or third person is entitled to appoint, the
judicial authority shall make the nomination at
the request of either party.
2 If the parties have agreed that there shall
be a sole arbitrator and they have not appointed
him by mutual consent within a period of one month
from the notice under Article 7, the judicial authority
shall make the nomination at the request of either
party.
Article 9
1 Where the arbitrators appointed or nominated
in accordance with the foregoing provisions are
even in number, they shall nominate another arbitrator
to be president of the arbitral tribunal. If they
do not agree and if the parties have not provided
otherwise, the judicial authority shall make the
necessary nomination at the request of either party.
The judicial authority may be seized after the
expiration of a period of one month from the acceptance
of his office by the last arbitrator or as soon
as the failure to agree is established.
2 Where the arbitrators appointed are uneven
in number they shall nominate one of themselves
to be president of the arbitral tribunal, unless
the parties have agreed on another method of appointment.
If the arbitrators do not agree, the judicial authority
seized under paragraph 1 shall make the necessary
nomination.
Article 10
1 If an arbitrator dies or cannot for a reason
of law or of fact perform his office, or if he
refuses to accept it or does not carry it out,
or if his office is terminated by mutual agreement
of the parties, he shall be replaced in accordance
with the rules governing his appointment or nomination.
However, if the arbitrator or arbitrators are named
in the arbitration agreement, the agreement shall
terminate ipso jure.
2 A disagreement arising out of any case envisaged in paragraph 1 shall be
brought before the judicial authority on the application of one of the parties.
If the judicial authority decides that there are grounds for replacing the
arbitrator, it shall nominate his successor, taking into account the intention
of the parties, as appearing from the arbitration agreement.
3 The parties may derogate from the provisions
of this article.
Article 11
Unless the parties have agreed otherwise, neither
the arbitration agreement nor the office of arbitrator
shall be terminated by the death of one of the
parties.
Article 12
1 Arbitrators may be challenged on the same grounds
as judges.
2 A party may not challenge an arbitrator appointed
by him except on a ground of which the party becomes
aware after the appointment.
Article 13
1 The challenge shall, as soon as the challenger
becomes aware of the ground of challenge, be brought
to the notice of the arbitrators and, where applicable,
of the third person who has, in pursuance of the
arbitration agreement, appointed the arbitrator
challenged. The arbitrators shall thereupon suspend
further proceedings.
2 If, within a period of ten days of the notice
of the challenge being given to him, the arbitrator
challenged has not resigned, the arbitral tribunal
shall so notify the challenger. The challenger
shall, on pain of being barred, bring the matter
before the judicial authority within a period of
ten days from receiving such notification. Otherwise,
the proceedings before the arbitrators shall be
resumed ipso jure.
3 If the arbitrator resigns or if the challenge
is upheld by the judicial authority, the arbitrator
shall be replaced in accordance with the rules
governing his appointment or nomination. However,
if he has been named in the arbitration agreement,
the agreement shall terminate ipso jure. The parties
may derogate from the provisions of this paragraph.
Article 14
1 The parties may in the arbitration agreement
exclude certain categories of persons from being
arbitrators.
2 If such an exclusion has been disregarded with
respect to the composition of the arbitral tribunal,
the irregularity shall be invoked in accordance
with the provisions of Article 13.
Article 15
1 Without prejudice to the provisions of Article
16, the parties may decide on the rules of the
arbitral procedure and on the place of arbitration.
If the parties do not indicate their intention
before the first arbitrator has accepted his office,
the decision shall be a matter for the arbitrators.
2 The president of the arbitral tribunal shall
regulate the hearings and conduct the proceedings.
Article 16
1 The arbitral tribunal shall give each party
an opportunity of substantiating his claims and
of presenting his case.
2 The arbitral tribunal shall make an award after
oral proceedings. The parties may validly be summoned
by registered letter, unless they have agreed upon
any other method of summons. The parties may appear
in person.
3 The procedure shall be in writing where the
parties have so provided or in so far as they have
waived oral proceedings.
4 Each party shall have the right to be represented
by an advocate or by a duly accredited representative.
Each party may be assisted by any person of his
choice.
Article 17
If, without legitimate cause, a party properly
summoned does not appear or does not present his
case within the period fixed, the arbitral tribunal
may, unless the other party requests an adjournment,
investigate the matter in dispute and make an award.
Article 18
1 The arbitral tribunal may rule in respect of
its own jurisdiction and, for this purpose, may
examine the validity of the arbitration agreement.
2 A ruling that the contract is invalid shall
not entail ipso jure the nullity of the arbitration
agreement contained in it.
3 The arbitral tribunal's ruling that it has
jurisdiction may not be contested before the judicial
authority except at the same time as the award
on the main issue and by the same procedure. The
judicial authority may at the request of one of
the parties decide whether a ruling that the arbitral
tribunal has no jurisdiction is well founded.
4 The appointment of an arbitrator by a party
shall not deprive that party of his rights to challenge
the jurisdiction of the arbitral tribunal.
Article 19
1 The parties may, up to the time of acceptance
of office by the first arbitrator, settle the period
within which the award is to be made or provide
for a method according to which the period is to
be settled.
2 If the parties have not prescribed a period
or a method of prescribing a period, if the arbitral
tribunal delays in making the award and if a period
of six months has elapsed from the date on which
all the arbitrators accepted office in respect
of the dispute submitted to arbitration, the judicial
authority may, at the request of one of the parties,
stipulate a period for the arbitral tribunal.
3 The office of arbitrator shall terminate if
the award is not made within the relevant period
unless that period is extended by agreement between
the parties.
4 Where arbitrators are named in the arbitration
agreement and the award is not made within the
relevant period, the arbitration agreement shall
terminate ipso jure, unless the parties have agreed
otherwise.
Article 20
Except where otherwise stipulated, an arbitral
tribunal may make a final award in the form of
one or more awards.
Article 21
Except where otherwise stipulated, arbitrators
shall make their awards in accordance with the
rules of law.
Article 22
1 An award shall be made after a deliberation
in which all the arbitrators shall take part. The
award shall be made by an absolute majority of
votes, unless the parties have agreed on another
majority.
2 The parties may also agree that, when a majority
cannot be obtained, the president of the arbitral
tribunal shall have a casting vote.
3 Except where otherwise stipulated, if the arbitrators
are to award a sum of money, and a majority cannot
be obtained for any particular sum, the votes for
the highest sum shall be counted as votes for the
next highest sum until a majority is obtained.
4 An award shall be set down in writing and signed
by the arbitrators. If one or more of the arbitrators
are unable or unwilling to sign, the fact shall
be recorded in the award. However, the award shall
bear a number of signatures which is at least equal
to a majority of the arbitrators.
5 An award shall, in addition to the operative
part, contain the following particulars:
a the names and permanent addresses of the arbitrators;
b the names and permanent addresses of the parties;
c the subject?matter of the dispute;
d the date on which the award was made;
e the place of arbitration and the place where
the award was made.
6 The reasons for an award shall be stated.
Article 23
1 The president of the arbitral tribunal shall
give notice to each party of the award by sending
him a copy thereof, signed in accordance with paragraph
4 of Article 22.
2 The president of the arbitral tribunal shall
deposit the original of the award with the registry
of the court having jurisdiction; he shall inform
the parties of the deposit.
Article 24
Unless the award is contrary to ordre public
or the dispute was not capable of settlement by
arbitration, an arbitral award has the authority
of res judicata when it has been notified in accordance
with paragraph 1 of Article 23 and may no longer
be contested before arbitrators.
Article 25
1 An arbitral award may be contested before a
judicial authority only by way of an application
to set aside and may be set aside only in the cases
mentioned in this article.
2 An arbitral award may be set aside:
a if it is contrary to ordre public;
b if the dispute was not capable of settlement
by arbitration;
c if there is no valid arbitration agreement;
d if the arbitral tribunal has exceeded its jurisdiction
or its powers;
e if the arbitral tribunal has omitted to make
an award in respect of one or more points of the
dispute and if the points omitted cannot be separated
from the points in respect of which an award has
been made;
f if the award was made by an arbitral tribunal
irregularly constituted;
g if the parties have not been given an opportunity
of substantiating their claims and presenting their
case, or if there has been disregard of any other
obligatory rule of the arbitral procedure, in so
far as such disregard has had an influence on the
arbitral award;
h if the formalities prescribed in paragraph
4 of Article 22 have not been fulfilled;
i if the reasons for the award have not been
stated;
j if the award contains conflicting provisions.
3 An award may also be set aside:
a if it was obtained by fraud;
b if it is based on evidence that has been declared
false by a judicial decision having the force of
res judicata or on evidence recognised as false;
c if, after it was made, there has been discovered
a document or other piece of evidence which would
have had a decisive influence on the award and
which was withheld through the act of the other
party.
4 A case mentioned in sub?paragraph c, d or f
of paragraph 2 shall be deemed not to constitute
a ground for setting aside an award where the party
availing himself of it had knowledge of it during
the arbitration proceedings and did not invoke
it at the time.
5 Grounds for the challenge and exclusion of
arbitrators provided for under Articles 12 and
14 shall not constitute grounds for setting aside
within the meaning of paragraph 2.f of this article,
even when they become known only after the award
is made.
Article 26
If there are grounds for setting aside any part
of an award, that part shall be set aside only
if it can be separated from the other parts of
the award.
Article 27
1 The grounds for setting aside an arbitral award
shall, on pain of being barred, be put forward
by the party concerned in one and the same proceedings,
except, however, in the case of a ground for setting
aside provided for in paragraph 3 of Article 25
where the ground is not known until later.
2 An application to set aside an award shall
be admissible only where the award may no longer
be contested before arbitrators.
Article 28
1 An application to set aside an award, based
on one of the grounds provided for in paragraph
2.c to j of Article 25 shall, on pain or being
barred, be made within a period of three months
from the date on which the award was notified.
However, that period shall begin to run only from
the date on which the award is no longer capable
of contestation before arbitrators.
2 The defendant in an application to set aside
an award may apply, in the same proceedings, for
the award to be set aside, even if the period laid
down in paragraph 1 has expired.
3 An application to set aside an award, based
on one of the grounds provided for in paragraph
3 of Article 25, shall be made within a period
of three months from either the date of the discovery
of the fraud, document or other piece of evidence,
or the date on which the evidence was declared
false or recognised as false, provided that a period
of five years from the date on which the award
was notified in accordance with paragraph 1 of
Article 23 has not expired.
4 The judicial authority seized of an application
to set aside an award shall examine proprio motu
whether the award is contrary to ordre public and
whether the dispute was capable of settlement by
arbitration.
Article 29
1 An arbitral award may be enforced only when
it can no longer be contested before arbitrators
and when an enforcement formula has been apposed
to it by the competent authority on the application
of the interested party.
2 The competent authority shall refuse the application
if the award or its enforcement is contrary to
ordre public or if the dispute was not capable
of settlement by arbitration.
3 A decision refusing the application is appealable.
Article 30
1 A decision apposing an enforcement formula
to an award shall be notified. The decision is
appealable within a period of one month from the
date on which the decision is notified.
2 A party exercising this right of appeal who
seeks to secure the setting aside of the award
without having previously made application for
this shall, on pain of being barred, make his application
in the same proceedings and within the period prescribed
in paragraph 1. A party who, while not exercising
the right of appeal provided for in paragraph 1,
seeks to secure the setting aside of an award shall,
on pain of being barred, make his application for
setting aside within the period prescribed in paragraph
1. The application for setting aside envisaged
in the present paragraph shall be admissible only
if the period prescribed in Article 28 has not
expired.
3 The provisions of paragraph 2 of this article
shall apply to the grounds for setting aside an
award provided for in paragraph 3 of Article 25
only if such grounds were known at the time of
notification of the decision apposing the enforcement
formula to the award.
4 Without prejudice to the provisions of paragraph
4 of Article 25, a party exercising the right of
appeal provided for in paragraph 1 of this article
may apply for the setting aside of the award if
there is no valid arbitration agreement, even if
the period prescribed in Article 28 has expired.
5 In the case either of an appeal against the
decision apposing an enforcement formula to an
award or of an application for an award to be set
aside, the judicial authority may, at the request
of one of the parties, order the enforcement of
the award to be stayed.
6 A decision apposing an enforcement formula
to an award shall be without effect to the extent
that the arbitral award has been set aside.
Article 31
1 Where, before an arbitral tribunal, a compromise
has been entered into between the parties in order
to put an end to a dispute of which the tribunal
is seized, that compromise may be recorded in an
instrument prepared by the arbitral tribunal and
signed by the arbitrators as well as by the parties.
The instrument shall be subject to the provisions
of paragraph 2 of Article 23. The instrument may,
on the application of the interested party, have
an enforcement formula apposed to it by the competent
authority.
2 The competent authority shall refuse the application
if the compromise or its enforcement is contrary
to ordre public or if the dispute was not capable
of settlement by arbitration.
3 The decision of the competent authority is
appealable.
ANNEX II
Any Contracting Party may declare that it reserves the right:
a to derogate from the provisions of paragraph
1 of Article 2 of the uniform law, particularly
in respect of disputes between defined categories
of persons;
b not to introduce into its law the provisions
of paragraph 2 of Article 2 of the uniform law,
or to regulate differently the case where the parties
have referred to a particular arbitration procedure;
c to provide in its law that the additional arbitrator
provided for in paragraph 2 of Article 5 of the
uniform law shall be appointed or nominated only
in the case of a tie in voting;
d to provide in its law that, in the cases mentioned
in paragraph 1 of Article 10 and in paragraph 4
of Article 19 of the uniform law, the arbitration
agreement shall, where the arbitrator or arbitrators
are named therein, terminate ipso jure only in
so far as concerns the dispute submitted to arbitration.
e not to introduce into its law paragraph 2 of
Article 18 of the uniform law or to regulate differently
the effects which a ruling that a contract is void
may have on the arbitration agreement;
f to derogate from the provisions of paragraph
5 of Article 25 and, if need be, from those of
paragraphs 2 and 3 of Article 13 and of paragraph
2 of Article 14 of the uniform law in so far as,
under those provisions, the grounds of challenge
or of irregularity in the composition of the arbitral
tribunal may not constitute grounds for setting
aside the award but must be invoked before the
judicial authority during the arbitration proceedings;
g to provide that it is only after a dispute
has arisen that the parties may, in pursuance of
Article 21 of the uniform law, exempt the arbitrators
from deciding in accordance with the rules of law;
h not to introduce into its law paragraph 2 of
Article 22 of the uniform law, or to regulate differently
the case where a majority of votes cannot be obtained;
i not to introduce into its law the provisions
of paragraph 6 of Article 22 and of paragraph 2.i
of Article 25 of the uniform law or to derogate
from those provisions;
j to derogate from the provisions of paragraph
2 of Article 23 of the uniform law;
k to amend or not to introduce into its law the
provisions of Article 24 of the uniform law;
l to derogate from paragraph
3.c of Article 25 of the uniform law and, if
need be, to replace
in paragraph 3 of Article 28 the words “document
or other piece of evidence” by different
expressions;
m to restrict in its law the application of paragraph
4 of Article 25 of the uniform law to the case
where the arbitral tribunal has been irregularly
constituted by reason of being composed of an even
number of arbitrators;
n to derogate from the provisions of Article 30 of the uniform law;
o not to introduce into its law Article 31 of
the uniform law.
ANNEX III
1 Each Contracting Party may, at the time of signature of the present Convention
or when depositing its instrument of ratification, acceptance or accession,
declare that, in case of conflict between the provisions of the uniform law
contained in Annex I and those of other international conventions, which
it may specify, it will apply the provisions of the uniform law to arbitrations
between physical or legal persons having, when concluding the arbitration
agreement, their habitual place of residence or their seat in the territories
of different States which are Parties to the present Convention and which
have made a like declaration.
Each Contracting Party may make the declaration
after the entry into force of the present Convention
in respect of that Party, in which case the declaration
will take effect six months after notification
thereof has been addressed to the Secretary General
of the Council of Europe.
2 A declaration made in pursuance of the preceding
paragraph may be withdrawn at any time by notification
addressed to the Secretary General of the Council
of Europe. The withdrawal shall take effect six
months after the notification.