End Note
1. Official Records of the General Assembly, Twenty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 30 (A/8730), p. 51.
2. On 22 December 2008, the Secretary-General received from the Government of Bulgaria a notification of denunciation of the said Convention.
In accordance with the provisions of article 50 (2) of the Convention, the denunciation will take effect on 22 December 2009.
[Upon accession to the Convention, the Government of Bulgaria made the following declaration to the Convention:
The Government of the People's Republic of Bulgaria considers that the definition of liner conference does not include joint bilateral lines operating on the basis of inter-governmental agreements.
With regard to the text of point 2 of the annex to resolution I, adopted on 6 April 1974, the Government of the People's Republic of Bulgaria considers that the provisions of the Convention on a Code of Conduct for Liner Conferences do not cover the activities of non-conference shipping lines.]
3. On 6 and 10 June 1997, the Secretary-General received communications concerning the status of Hong Kong from the Governments of the United Kingdom and China (see also note 2 under "China" and note 2 under "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" regarding Hong Kong in the "Historical Information" section in the front matter of this volume). Upon resuming the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong, China notified the Secretary-General that the Convention with the reservation made by China will also apply to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
In addition, the notification made by the Government of China contained the following declaration:
1. (A) Without prejudice to paragraph 1 (B) of this reservation, article 2 of the Convention shall not be applied in conference trades, on a reciprocal basis, between the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and any State which has made a reservation disapplying article 2 in respect of its trade with the People's Republic of China.
(B) Paragraph 1 (A) above shall not affect the opportunity of shipping lines of a developing country for participation as third country shipping lines in such trades in accordance with the principles reflected in article 2 of the Convention, or the shipping lines of a developing country which are recognised as national shipping lines under the Convention and which are:
(a) Already members of a conference serving these trades: or
(b) Admitted to such a conference under article 1(3) of the Convention.
2. In trades where article 2 of the Convention applies, shipping lines incorporated in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region will, subject to reciprocity, allow participation in redistribution by lines from any country which has agreed to allow participation by lines of the People's Republic of China in redistribution in respect of its trades.
3. Article 3 and article 14 (9) of the Convention shall not be applied in conference trades, on a reciprocal basis, between he Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and any State which has made a reservation disapplying article 3 and article 14 (9) in respect of its trade with the People's Republic of China.
4. In trade to which article 3 of the Convention applies, the last sentence of that article is interpreted as meaning that:
(A) The two groups of national shipping lines will coordinate their position before voting on matters concerning the trade between their two countries; and
(B) This sentence applies solely to matters which the conference agreement identifies as requiring the assent of both groups of national shipping lines concerned, and not to all matters covered by the conference agreement.
4. Czechoslovakia had signed and approved the Convention on 30 June 1975 and 4 June 1979, respectively, with a declaration m
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