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Denmark's signature to the Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic was accompanied by the following declaration:
"The present Convention is subject to ratification and with reservation for application to the Faroe Islands and Greenland."
(Note: Following Denmark's ratification of the OSPAR Convention, Denmark notified France as the Depositary Government that Denmark had withdrawn its reservation from the Declaration accompanying Denmark's signature to the Convention.)
The United Kingdom's signature to the Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic was accompanied by the following declaration:
"The Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland declares its understanding of the effect of the paragraph 3 of Article 3 of Annex II to the Convention to be amongst other things that, where the Commission takes a decision pursuant to Article 13 of the Convention, on the prolongation of the prohibition set out in subparagraph (3)(a), those Contracting Parties who wish to retain the option of the exception to that prohibition as provided for in subparagraph (3)(b) may retain that option, provided that they are not bound, under paragraph 2 of Article 13, by that decision."
Note: Following the entry into force of OSPAR Decision 98/2 on Dumping of Radioactive Waste on 9 February 1999, subparagraphs (b) and (c) of paragraph 3 of Article 3 of Annex II to the Convention ceased to have effect.
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