The protocol will enter into force 90 days after 50 signatories have ratified it.
It will enter into force three months after being ratified by 20 States.
Ten more countries must ratify for the Protocol to enter into force.
To enter into force, the text must be formally approved by the European Parliament and by the Council, which is due to take its decision after the parliamentary vote.
Today, we reaffirmed our commitment to work to ratify this treaty as soon as possible so it can enter into force and set the stage for further cuts and cooperation.
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In fact, the CWC will be neither global (perhaps as few as thirty-nine nations will be sufficient for it to enter into force) nor verifiable (no arrangement has yet been devised to ensure compliance with a CW ban).
Governments will also decide how to stick to the task and timetable they set themselves to reach an effective, fair and ambitious universal climate agreement that is to be adopted in 2015 and to enter into force from 2020, and to raise the current inadequate global ambition to address climate change and its impacts before 2020.
This comes a day after a summit held in Astana at which the leaders of the three countries Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko, Russian President Dmitri Medvedev and Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev signed official documentation calling for the Customs Code to enter into force trilaterally, following a bilateral agreement signed between Russia and Kazakhstan on July 1.
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This is the third such agreement to enter-into-force under the Obama Administration within a year of its signing, following the Korean and Colombian agreements.
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