Guidance

Treaty Action Bulletin: December 2020

Published 5 January 2021

1. Treaties for which the UK is depositary

• Economic Partnership Agreement between the CARIFORUM States, of the one part, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, of the other part (Castries, 22 March 2019)

Action: multiple including provisional application: see status list.

• Agreement establishing an Economic Partnership Agreement between the Eastern and Southern Africa States and the UK (London, 31 January 2019)

Action: various ratifications and entries into force with UK: see status list.

• Trade Agreement between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, of the one part, and the Republic of Colombia, the Republic of Ecuador and the Republic of Peru, of the other part (Quito, 15 May 2019)

Action: UK completion of procedures and entry into force with Ecuador and Peru: see status list.

• Convention on Future Multilateral Co-operation in North-East Atlantic Fisheries (London, 18 November 1980)

Action: UK territorial extension to the Isle of Man: see status list.

• Convention establishing the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (Rome, 12 March 2019)

Action: UK ratification and entry into force of treaty: see status list.

2. Published in Miscellaneous Series

Agreement on Trade in Goods between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Iceland and the Kingdom of Norway

Economic Partnership Agreement between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, of the one part, and the Republic of Kenya, a Member of the East African Community, of the other part

3. Published in Country Series

Agreement on Trade Continuity between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Canada

Agreement establishing an Association between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Arab Republic of Egypt

Agreement on the Mutual Recognition and Protection of Designations for Spirit Drinks between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland the United Mexican States

Partnership, Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Republic of North Macedonia

Free Trade Agreement between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Republic of Singapore

4. Multilateral treaties: UK actions

• Grains Trade Convention, 1995: accession (PDF, 50KB)

• International Sugar Agreement, 1992: accession (PDF, 50.2KB)

• Doha Amendment to the Kyoto Protocol: communication re Argentina’s declaration on the Falkland Islands (PDF, 54.2KB)

• Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats: extension to Gibraltar (PDF, 358KB) and extension to the Cayman Islands (PDF, 52.1KB)

• United Nations Convention Against Corruption: extension to the Cayman Islands (PDF, 53.6KB)

• European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (ETS No. 148): declarations re Isle of Man (PDF, 206KB)

The UK submitted numerous others instruments in December 2020. At the time of this Bulletin, those deposits were yet to be confirmed by the depositaries’ websites. You may wish to consult them in due course. The relevant pages are linked in the list below, where available:

• Trademark Law Treaty: extension to Gibraltar

• WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty: extension to Isle of Man and Bailiwick of Guernsey

• WIPO Copyright Treaty: extension Isle of Man and Bailiwick of Guernsey

• Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement Concerning International Registration of Industrial Design: extension Bailiwick of Guernsey

• Locarno Agreement Establishing an International Classification for Industrial Design: extension Isle of Man

• Nice Agreement Concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks: eextension Isle of Man and Bailiwick of Guernsey

• Patent Cooperation Treaty:extension Bailiwick of Guernsey

• Singapore Treaty on the Law of Trademarks:extension Isle of Man

• Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure: extension Isle of Man, Bailiwick of Guernsey and Gibraltar

• Agreement establishing the International Organisation of Vine and Wine: ratification

• Agreement on Government Procurement: accession

• International Coffee Agreement 2007: accession

• Agreement on arrangements between Iceland, the Principality of Liechtenstein, the Kingdom of Norway and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland following the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union, the EEA Agreement and other agreements applicable between the United Kingdom and the EEA EFTA States by virtue of the United Kingdom’s membership of the European Union: ratification

• Amendment to the Trade Related Provisions of the Energy Charter Treaty: ratification

• Economic Partnership Agreement between the Southern African Customs Union Member States and Mozambique, of the one part, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, of the other part: ratification

• Protocol Amending the TRIPS Agreement: continued acceptance

• Protocol Amending the Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization: continued acceptance

• Protocol of 2015 Amending the Annex to the Agreement on Trade in Civil Aircraft: continued acceptance including Bailiwick of Jersey, Bailiwick of Guernsey and the Isle of Man

• Agreement on Port State Measures to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing: accession

• Agreement to Promote Compliance with International Conservation and Management Measures by Fishing Vessels on the High Sea: acceptance

• Agreement for the Establishment of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission: UK accession