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JOINT PROTOCOL RELATING TO THE APPLICATION OF 

THE VIENNA CONVENTION AND THE PARIS CONVENTION



Objective



To establish a special link between the Vienna 

Convention on Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage of 21 

May 1963 and the Paris Convention on Third Party 

Liability in the Field of Nuclear Energy of 29 July 1960 

and eliminate possible conflicts arising from the 

simultaneous application of both Conventions to a 

Nuclear Incident.



Provisions



(a) The operator of a nuclear installation situated in 

the territory of a party to either Convention shall be 

liable in accordance with that Convention for nuclear 

damage suffered in the territory of a Party to the other 

Convention and the Protocol;



(b) In case of a nuclear incident outside a nuclear 

installation in the course of carriage, the Convention 

applicable is that to which the State in whose territory 

the nuclear installation is situated is a Party;



(c) Each Convention applies to each incident to the 

exclusion of the other;



(d) Articles I to XV of the Vienna Convention are 

applied to the Parties of the Protocol that are Parties 

to the Paris Convention. Articles 1 to 14 of the Paris 

Convention are applied to parties of the Protocol that 

are Parties to the Vienna Convention.



Membership



Restricted to States Parties to the Vienna Convention or 

the Paris Convention.



Date of adoption          21.9.1988

Place of adoption         Vienna

Date of entry into force  Not yet in force

Languages                 Arabic, Chinese, English,

                          French,

                          Russian and Spanish

Depositary                International Atomic Energy 

Agency



              Signatories and      Date of ratification/

              dates of signature   accession



Argentina        21.9.1988

Belgium          21.9.1988

Cameroon         7.12.1988

Chile            21.9.1988          23.11.1989

Denmark          21.9.1988          26. 5.1989

Egypt            21.9.1988          10. 8.1989

Finland          21.9.1988

France           21.6.1989

Germany, Federal

  Republic of    21.9.1988

Greece           21.9.1988

Hungary          20.9.1989          26. 3.1990

Italy            21.9.1988

Morocco          21.9.1988

Netherlands      21.9.1988

Norway           21.9.1988

Philippines      21.9.1988

                                                               

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Poland           23.1.1990

Portugal         21.9.1988

Spain            21.9.1988

Sweden           21.9.1988

Switzerland      21.9.1988

Turkey           21.9.1988

United Kingdom

of Great

Britain

and Northern

Ireland          21.9.1988