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Chronological table of actions

1978 - United Nations Convention on the Carriage of Goods by Sea - the "Hamburg Rules"

This page is updated whenever the UNCITRAL Secretariat is informed of changes in status of the Convention.

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Status

All dates: DD/MM/YYYY

State

Notes

Date of accession

Egypt
23/04/1979
Uganda
06/07/1979
United Republic of Tanzania
24/07/1979
Tunisia
15/09/1980
Barbados
02/02/1981
Morocco
12/06/1981
Romania
07/01/1982
Chile
09/07/1982
Lebanon
04/04/1983
Hungary
05/07/1984
Senegal
17/03/1986
Botswana
16/02/1988
Sierra Leone
07/10/1988
Nigeria
07/11/1988
Kenya
31/07/1989
Burkina Faso
14/08/1989
Lesotho
26/10/1989
Guinea
23/01/1991
Malawi
18/03/1991
Zambia
07/10/1991
Austria
29/07/1993
Cameroon
21/10/1993
Czech Republic (a) 23/06/1995
Gambia
07/02/1996
Georgia
21/03/1996
Burundi
04/09/1998
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
12/09/2000
Jordan
10/05/2001
Syrian Arab Republic
16/10/2002
Paraguay
19/07/2005
Liberia
16/09/2005
Albania
20/07/2006
Dominican Republic
28/09/2007
Kazakhstan
18/06/2008

Notes

(a) The Convention was signed by the former Czechoslovakia on 6 March 1979. On 28 May 1993, Slovakia and on 2 June 1993, the Czech Republic deposited their instruments of succession to the signature and the Czech Republic deposited its instrument of ratification on 23 June 1995.