1980 Protocol to the Basic Agreement on ASEAN Industrial Projects on the Selling Price of Soda Ash of the ASEAN Rock Salt-Soda Ash Project (Thailand)

1980 AIP Protocol on Selling Price of Soda Ash

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“This Protocol shall be deemed an integral part of the Basic Agreement on ASEAN Industrial Projects.”

Chapter XIII, ‘Consultations’ of the 1980 Basic Agreement on ASEAN Industrial Projects:

Article 14:

“1. Each Contracting State shall accord adequate opportunity for consultations regarding such representations as may be made by any Contracting State with respect to any matter affecting the implementation of this Agreement may, at the request of any Contracting State, consult with any other Contracting State in respect of any matter for which it has not been posse to find a satisfactory solution during previous consultations.

2. If any Contracting State should consider that any other Contracting State has not carried out its obligations under this Agreement, the affected contracting State may make representations or proposals to the other Contracting State concerned which shall consider said representation or proposal within sixty (60) days from receipt thereof.

3. If no satisfactory solution is effected between the Contracting States, the matter may be referred to COIME which shall consult with the Contracting States concerned and arrive at a solution mutually acceptable to the States concerned. If no satisfactory solution is arrived at in COIME, the matter shall be referred to the ASEAN Economic Ministers for the final settlement.”

The 1980 Basic Agreement on ASEAN Industrial Projects was a covered agreement by the 1996 Protocol on Dispute Settlement Mechanism. Subsequently, it was a covered agreement” under Appendix I of the 2004 Protocol on Enhanced Dispute Settlement Mechanism, and Article 24.3 of the 2007 ASEAN Charter which provides that “[w]here not otherwise specifically provided, disputes which concern the interpretation or application of ASEAN economic agreements shall be settled in accordance with the [2004] ASEAN Protocol on Enhanced Dispute Settlement Mechanism”.

Secretary-General of the ASEAN Secretariat

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1980 Basic Agreement on ASEAN Industrial Projects

1991 Supplementary Agreement To The Basic Agreement On ASEAN Industrial Projects – ASEAN Potash Mining Project (Thailand)

1984 Supplementary Agreement to the Basic Agreement on ASEAN Industrial Projects – ASEAN Vaccine Project (Singapore)

1982 Draft Supplementary Agreement to the Basic Agreement on ASEAN Industrial Projects for the ASEAN Copper Fabrication Project (Philippines)

1980 Supplementary Agreement to the Basic Agreement on ASEAN Industrial Project: ASEAN Urea Project (Indonesia)

1980 Supplementary Agreement to the Basic Agreement on ASEAN Industrial Projects: ASEAN Urea Project (Malaysia)

ASEAN Secretariat accessed on 18/07/2022

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