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Annex: Amendments to Article 1 and the New Article 6 bis, New Annexes 4 and 5, and the Consequential Amendments

In accordance with Article 21.3 of the Protocol, the amendment concerned will enter into force for the Contracting Parties which have accepted it on the sixtieth day after two-thirds of the Contracting Parties shall have deposited an instrument of its acceptance with the Organization. Thereafter the amendment will enter into force for any other Contracting Party on the sixtieth day after the date on which that Contracting Party has deposited its instrument of acceptance of the amendment.

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1972 Convention On The Prevention Of Marine Pollution By Dumping Of Wastes And Other Matter

1996 Protocol to the 1972 Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter

2006 Amendment to the 1996 Protocol to the Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter, 1972 - Amendment to include CO2 sequestration in sub-seabed geological formations in Annex 1 to the London Protocol  

2009 Amendment to Article 6 of the 1996 Protocol to the Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter

The 2013 Amendment to the London Protocol adopted amendments to regulate the placement of matter for ocean fertilization and other marine geoengineering engineering activities.

No instruments of acceptance deposited (as of 09/02/2016) according to IMO. See here.