Written answers
Wednesday, 27 October 2010
Department of Foreign Affairs
International Agreements
8:00 pm
Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Question 395: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 378 of the 12 October 2010, if he will list all treaties into which the State has entered, which have not been laid before the Dáil; the date on which each treaty was signed and ratified by the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39260/10]
Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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As I indicated in my reply to Parliamentary Question 378 of 12 October 2010 I am confident that the vast majority of international agreements which entered into force since 1937 have now been laid before the Dáil but it is possible that a small number of further agreements will be identified and any such agreements will be laid before the Dáil in due course. All historical agreements identified by my Department to date have been laid before the Dáil. I also indicated that the Department now seeks to lay all international agreements before the end of the calendar year following the year in which they enter into force for the State. Thus, in 2011 my Department will arrange for the laying before the Dáil of the international agreements which enter into force for the State in 2010. A provisional list of agreements to be laid before the Dáil in 2011 is set out below, although it cannot be precluded that further agreements will be added to the list by the end of the year. A multilateral agreement may, under its own terms, enter into force internationally when the number of states required by it for that purpose has ratified it. Where Ireland ratifies the agreement subsequently there is then a later date of entry into force.
Title of Agreement | Date of Signature | Date of Ratification/Accession /Notification | Date of Entry into Force for Ireland | Date of Entry into Force Internationally |
Partnership and Cooperation Agreement establishing a partnership between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Tajikistan, of the other part | 11/10/2004 | 11/06/2007 | 01/01/2010 | 01/01/2010 |
Trade Amendment to the Energy Charter Treaty | n/a | 13/07/2001 | 21/01/2010 | 21/01/2010 |
Instrument as contemplated by Article 3(2) of the Agreement on Mutual Legal Assistance between the United States of America and the European Union signed on 25 June 2003, as to the application of the Treaty between the Government of Ireland and the Government of the United States of America on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters | 14/07/2005 | 28/10/2009 | 01/02/2010 | 01/02/2010 |
Instrument as contemplated by Article 3(2) of the Agreement on Extradition between the United States of America and the European Union signed 25 June 2003 as to the Application of the Treaty on Extradition between Ireland and the United States of America | 14/07/2005 | 28/10/2009 | 01/02/2010 | 01/02/2010 |
Amendment to the Convention on the Control and Marking of Articles of Precious Metals | n/a | 25/07/2005 | 27/02/2010 | 27/02/2010 |
World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) Copyright Treaty | 19/12/1997 | 14/12/2009 | 14/03/2010 | 06/03/2002 |
World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) Performances and Phonograms Treaty | 19/12/1997 | 14/12/2009 | 14/03/2010 | 20/05/2002 |
Agreement between Ireland, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Kingdom of Spain, the Italian Republic, the Portuguese Republic, the French Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland establishing a Maritime Analysis and Operations Centre – Narcotics | 30/09/2007 | 21/07/2008 | 02/04/2010 | 02/04/2010 |
Protocol No. 14 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, amending the Control System of the Convention | 13/05/2004 | 10/11/2004 | 01/06/2010 | 01/06/2010 |
Agreement between the Government of Ireland and the Government of the United States of America on the privileges of US employees assigned to Preclearance duties in Ireland pursuant to the Agreement between the Government of Ireland and the Government of the United States of America on Air Transport Preclearance | 17/11/2008 | 06/07/2010 | 06/07/2010 | 06/07/2010 |
Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime | 13/12/2000 | 17/06/2010 | 17/07/2010 | 25/12/2003 |
Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, supplementing the UN Convention against Transnational Organised Crime | 13/12/2000 | 17/06/2010 | 17/07/2010 | 28/01/2004 |
Convention on Cluster Munitions | 03/12/2008 | 03/12/2008 | 01/08/2010 | 01/08/2010 |
Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings | 13/04/2007 | 13/07/2010 | 01/11/2010 | 01/02/2008 |
Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption | 19/06/1996 | 28/07/2010 | 01/11/2010 | 01/05/1995 |
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants | 22/05/2001 | 05/08/2010 | 03/11/2010 | 17/05/2004 |
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