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b The Committee considers that the entry into force goes back to the date when the State became independent.

f The Committee considers that the entry into force goes back to the date when the State became independent.

It was proposed that reports should be required to be submitted two years after entry into force.

The Agreement will enter into force on the first day of the month following the date of receipt of the last of the notifications by which the Tribunal and the Federal Republic of Germany have informed each other of the completion of their respective formal requirements for the entry into force of the Agreement.

It notes that the author's incarceration in 1981 82 predates the entry into force of the Optional Protocol for the State party on 27 September 1984.

(f) The facts that are the subject of the communication occurred prior to the entry into force of the present Protocol for the State Party concerned unless those facts continued after that date.

3. Calls upon States to consider signing and ratifying the Convention and the Optional Protocol as a matter of priority, and expresses the hope that they will enter into force at an early date

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Entry into force

The Committee recalls its jurisprudence that a State party's obligations under the Covenant apply as of the date of its entry into force for that State party.

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1. The present Convention shall enter into force on the thirtieth day after the deposit of the twentieth instrument of ratification or accession.

Article 23 (entry into force)

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Article 23 Entry into force

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Only Parties for which the Convention has entered into force as at 30 April 2005 are included in the report as the import responses are not required from a Party until the date of entry into force of the Convention for that Party.

In accordance with paragraph 1 of Article 4B of the Protocol, each Party should have established and implemented a licensing system by 1 January 2000 or within three months of the date of entry into force of that Article.

The Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights entered into force on 11 July 1991, three months after the date on which the tenth instrument of ratification or accession was deposited with the Secretary General.

Time is running out in Kosovo.

It came into force in 1978.

2. For each State ratifying the present Protocol or acceding to it after the deposit with the Secretary General of the United Nations of the twentieth instrument of ratification or accession, the present Protocol shall enter into force on the thirtieth day after the date of deposit of its own instrument of ratification or accession.

Date of communication 15 September 1999 (initial submission)

Date of communication 19 August 1999 (initial submission)

Date of communication 10 June 2002 (initial submission)

Date of communication 4 September 1997 (initial submission)

Date of communication 1 July 2001 (initial submission)

Date of communication 14 June 2002 (initial submission)

Date of communication 23 August 2002 (initial submission)

Date of communication 14 March 2002 (initial submission)

Date of communication 24 July 2003 (initial submission)

Date of communication 24 February 1997 (initial submission)

Date of communication 16 June 1999 (initial submission)

Date of communication 3 September 1999 (initial submission)

Date of communication 28 July 2000 (initial submission)

Date of communication 12 June 2002 (initial submission)

The protocol came into force on 12 February 2002.

The Convention entered into force on November 11, 1990.

The Youth Justice Act (British Columbia) was passed in 2003 and came into force in 2004.