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PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW COMPENDIUM VOLUME II

(c) The Commission shall not report its findings publicly,

unless all the Parties to the conflict have requested the

Commission to do so.

6. The Commission shall establish its own rules, including

rules for the presidency or the Commission and the

presidency of the Chamber. Those rules shall ensure that

the functions of the President of the Commission are

exercised at all times and that, in the case of an inquiry,

they are exercised by a person who is not a national of a

Party to the conflict.

7. The administrative expenses of the Commission shall

be met by contributions from the High Contracting

Parties which made declarations under paragraph 2, and

by voluntary contributions. The Party or Parties to the

conflict requesting an inquiry shall advance the necessary

funds for expenses incurred by a Chamber and shall be

reimbursed by the Party or Parties against which the

allegations are made to the extent of 50 per cent of the

costs

of

the

Chamber.

Where

there

are

counter-allegations before the Chamber each side shall

advance 50 per cent of the necessary funds.

Art 91. Responsibility

A Party to the conflict which violates the provisions of the

Conventions or of this Protocol shall, if the case demands,

be liable to pay compensation. It shall be responsible for

all acts committed by persons forming part of its armed

forces.

Part IV. Final Resolutions

Art 92. Signature

This Protocol shall be open for signature by the Parties to

the Conventions six months after the signing of the Final

Act and will remain open for a period or twelve months.

Art 93. Ratification

This Protocol shall be ratified as soon as possible. The

instruments of ratification shall be deposited with the

Swiss Federal Council, depositary of the Conventions.

Art 94. Accession

This Protocol shall be open for accession by any Party to

the Conventions which has not signed it. The instruments

of accession shall be deposited with the depositary.

Art 95.- Entry into force

1. This Protocol shall enter into force six months after two

instruments

of

ratification

or

accession

have

been

deposited.

2. For each Party to the Conventions thereafter ratifying

or acceding to this Protocol, it shall enter into force six

months after the deposit by such Party of its instrument

of ratification or accession.

Art 96. Treaty relations upon entry into force or this

Protocol

1. When the Parties to the Conventions are also Parties to

this

Protocol,

the

Conventions

shall

apply

as

supplemented by this Protocol.

2. When one of the Parties to the conflict is not bound by

this Protocol, the Parties to the Protocol shall remain

bound

by

it

in

their

mutual

relations.

They

shall

furthermore be bound by this Protocol in relation to each

of the Parties which are not bound by it, if the latter

accepts and applies the provisions thereof.

3. The authority representing a people engaged against a

High Contracting Party in an armed conflict of the type

referred to in Article 1, paragraph 4, may undertake to

apply the Conventions and this Protocol in relation to that

conflict by means of a unilateral declaration addressed to

the depositary. Such declaration shall, upon its receipt by

the

depositary, have in relation to that conflict the

following effects:

(a) the Conventions and this Protocol are brought into

force for the said authority as a Party to the conflict with

immediate effect;

(b) the said authority assumes the same rights and

obligations as those which have been assumed by a High

Contracting Party to the Conventions and this Protocol;

and

(c) the Conventions and this Protocol are equally binding

upon all Parties to the conflict.

Art 97. Amendment

1. Any High Contracting Party may propose amendments

to this Protocol. The text of any proposed amendment

shall be communicated to the depositary, which shall

decide, after consultation with all the High Contracting

Parties and the International Committee of the Red Cross,

whether a conference should be convened to consider

the proposed amendment.

2. The depositary shall invite to that conference all the

High Contracting Parties as well as the Parties to the

Conventions, whether or not they are signatories or this

Protocol.

Art 98. Revision of Annex I

1. Not later than four years after the entry into force of this

Protocol and thereafter at intervals of not less than four

years, the International Committee of the Red Cross shall

consult the High Contracting Parties concerning Annex I

to this Protocol and, if it considers it necessary, may

propose a meeting of technical experts to review Annex I

and to propose such amendments to it as may appear to

be

desirable.

Unless,

within

six

months

of

the

communication of a proposal for such a meeting to the

High Contracting Parties, one third of them object, the

International Committee of the Red Cross shall convene

the

meeting,

inviting

also

observers

of

appropriate

international organizations. Such a meeting shall also be

convened by the International Committee of the Red

Cross at any time at the request of one third of the High

Contracting Parties.

2. The depositary shall convene a conference of the High

Contracting Parties and the Parties to the Conventions to

consider

amendments

proposed

by

the meeting of

technical experts if, after that meeting, the International

Committee of the Red Cross or one third of the High

Contracting Parties so request.

3. Amendments to Annex I may be adopted at such a

conference

by

a

two-thirds

majority

of

the

High

Contracting Parties present and voting.

4. The depositary shall communicate any amendment so

adopted to the High Contracting Parties and to the

Parties to the Conventions. The amendment shall be

considered to have been accepted at the end of a period

of one year after it has been so communicated, unless

within that period a declaration of non-acceptance of the

amendment has been communicated to the depositary

by not less than one third of the High Contracting Parties.

5. An amendment considered to have been accepted in

accordance with paragraph 4 shall enter into force three

months after its acceptance for all High Contracting

Parties other than those which have made a declaration

of non-acceptance in accordance with that paragraph.

Any Party making such a declaration may at any time

withdraw it and the amendment shall then enter into

force for that Party three months thereafter.

6. The depositary shall notify the High Contracting Parties

and the Parties to the Conventions of the entry into force

of any amendment, of the Parties bound thereby, of the

date of its entry into force in relation to each Party, of

declarations of non-acceptance made in accordance with

paragraph 4, and of withdrawals of such declarations.

Article 99 - Denunciation

1. In case a High Contracting Party should denounce this

Protocol, the denunciation shall only take effect one year

after

receipt

of

the

instrument

of

denunciation.

If,

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