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

Short Title / Abbreviations

AIP Potash Mining (Thailand)

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Date of Adoption 20/07/1991
Place of Adoption Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 24th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting (AMM)
Issued/Adopted by Foreign Ministers of ASEAN
Dispute settlement provisions

Article 16 of the 1980 Basic Agreement on ASEAN Industrial Projects:

“Special provisions concerning each individual ASEAN Industrial Project shall be set out in a Supplementary Agreement which shall be deemed to be Part of this Basic Agreement.”

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. COIME 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 possible 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 is one of the ‘Covered Agreements’ pursuant to Article 1.1 of the 2019 ASEAN Protocol on Enhanced Dispute Settlement Mechanism read together with its Appendix 1. This Agreement was previously one of the ‘Covered Agreements’ pursuant to Article 1.1 of the 1996 Protocol on Dispute Settlement Mechanism read together with its Appendix 1, as well as one of the ‘Covered Agreements’ pursuant to Article 1.1 of the 2004 ASEAN Protocol on Enhanced Dispute Settlement Mechanism read together with its Appendix I.”

The 2019 Protocol will only apply with respect to new requests for consultations made on or after its entry into force (20 June 2022). Likewise, the 2004 Protocol will only apply with respect to disputes that arose after its entry into force (29 November 2004). The 1996 Protocol applies to all other disputes.

Depository

Secretary-General of the ASEAN Secretariat

Entry Into Force Status In Question
Source

ASEAN Legal Instruments

Entry into Force / Termination Provisions

Article 5, Entry Into Force: “This Agreement shall enter into force on the thirtieth day after the deposit of the sixth instrument of Ratification. “

Status
ASEAN States (Source:

ASEAN Legal Instruments

as of 07/11/2025)
Brunei Darussalam Signature 20/07/1991
Cambodia
Indonesia Signature 20/07/1991
Lao PDR
Malaysia Signature 20/07/1991
Myanmar
Philippines Signature 20/07/1991
Singapore Signature 20/07/1991
Thailand Signature 20/07/1991
Ratification 13/09/1991
Vietnam
Timor Leste
Related Instruments
This instrument amends/supersedes

This is a supplementary agreement to the 1980 Basic Agreement on ASEAN Industrial Projects.

Related Instruments

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)

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

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Additional Information

The status of this instrument is indicated as “In Question” as on the ASEAN Legal Instruments page it is indicated as “N/A”. The Legal Instruments page shows a record of only one instrument of ratification.

Dates of ratification given above were obtained from the ASEAN Secretariat’s Legal Instruments website and its electronic collection of instruments of ratification, accession and notification. The dates given appear to be the dates of execution of the instruments of ratification, rather than their date of receipt by the depository.

Last Updated on 07/11/2025