Status of ratifications to Maritime Conventions Etat des ratifications aux conventions de Droit Maritime
Convention internationale pour
l’unification de certaines
règles en matière
d’Abordage
et protocole de signature

Bruxelles, le 23 septembre 1910
Entrée en vigueur: 1er mars 1913

International convention
for the unification of certain
rules of law relating to
Collision between vessels
and protocol of signature

Brussels, 23rd September, 1910
Entered into force: 1 March 1913
(Translation)


Angola (a) 20.VII.1914
Antigua and Barbuda (a) 1.II.1913
Argentina (a) 28.II.1922
Australia (a) 9.IX.1930
Norfolk Island (a) 1.II.1913
Austria (r) 1.II.1913
Bahamas (a) 3.II.1913
Belize (a) 3.II.1913
Barbados (a) 1.II.1913
Belgium (r) 1.II.1913
Brazil (r) 31.XII.1913
Canada (a) 25.IX.1914
Cape Verde (a) 20.VII.1914

China

   

Hong Kong(1)

(a)

1.II.1913

Macao(2)

(r)

25.XII.1913

Cyprus (a) 1.II.1913
Croatia (a) 8.X.1991
Denmark (r) 18.VI.1913
Dominican Republic (a) 1.II.1913
Egypt (a) 29.XI.1943
Estonia (a) 15.V.1929
Fiji (a) 1.II.1913
Finland (a) 17.VII.1923
France (r) 1.II.1913
Gambia (a) 1.II.1913
Germany (r) 1.II.1913
Ghana (a) 1.II.1913
Goa (a) 20.VII.1914
Greece (r) 29.IX.1913
Grenada (a) 1.II.1913
Guinea-Bissau (a) 20.VII.1914
Guyana (a) 1.II.1913
Haiti (a) 18.VIII.1951
Hungary (r) 1.II.1913
India (a) 1.II.1913
Iran (a) 26.IV.1966
Ireland (r) 1.II.1913
Italy (r) 2.VI.1913
Jamaica (a) 1.II.1913
Japan (r) 12.I.1914
Kenya (a) 1.II.1913
Kiribati (a) 1.II.1913
Latvia (a) 2.VIII.1932
Luxembourg (a) 22.IV.1991
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (a) 9.XI.1934
Macao (a) 20.VII.1914
Madagascar (r) 1.II.1913
Malaysia (a) 1.II.1913
Malta (a) 1.II.1913
Mauritius (a) 1.II.1913
Mexico (r) 1.II.1913
Mozambique (a) 20.VII.1914
Netherlands (r) 1.II.1913
Newfoundland (a) 11.III.1914
New Zealand (a) l9.V.1913
Nicaragua (r) 18.VII.1913
Nigeria (a) 1.II.1913
Norway (r) 12.XI.1913
Papua New Guinea (a) 1.II.1913
Paraguay (a) 22.XI.1967
Poland (a) 2.VI.1922
Portugal (r) 25.XII.1913
Romania (r) 1.II.1913
Russian Federation(3) (r) 10.VII.1936
Saint Kitts and Nevis (a) 1.II.1913
Saint Lucia (a) 3.III.1913
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (a) 1.II.1913
Solomon Islands (a) 1.II.1913
Sao Tome and Principe (a) 20.VII.1914
Seychelles (a) 1.II.1913
Sierra Leone (a) 1.II.1913
Singapore (a) 1.II.1913
Slovenia (a) 16.XI.1993
Somalia (a) 1.II.1913
Spain (a) 17.XI.1923
Sri-Lanka (a) 1.II.1913
Sweden (r) 12.XI.1913
(denunciation 19 December 1995)
Switzerland (a) 28.V.1954
Timor (a) 20.VII.1914
Tonga (a) 13.VI .1978
Trinidad and Tobago (a) 1.II.1913
Turkey (a) 4.VII.1913
Tuvalu (a) 1.II.1913
United Kingdom (r) 1.II.1913
Jersey, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Anguilla, Bermuda, Gibraltar, Falkland Islands and Dependencies, Cayman, Islands, British Virgin Islands, Montserrat, Caicos & Turks Islands. Saint Helena,
Wei-Hai-Wei
(a) 1.II.1913
Uruguay (a) 21.VII.1915
Zaire (a) 17.VII.1967
  • (1) With letter dated 4 June 1997 the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in the Kingdom of Belgium informed the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belgium that the Collision Convention will continue to apply to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region with effect from 1 July 1997. In its letter the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China stated that the responsibility for the international rights and obligations arising from the application of the above Convention will be assumed by the Government of the People’s Republic of China.
  • (2) With letter dated 15 October 1999 the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in the Kingdom of Belgium informed the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belgium that the Collision Convention will continue to apply to the Macao Special Administrative Region with effect from 20 December 1999. In its letter the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China stated that the responsibility for the international rights and obligations arising from the application of the above Convention will be assumed by the Government of the People’s Republic of China.
  • (3) Pursuant to a notification of the Ministry of foreign affairs of the Russian Federation dated 13th January 1992, the Russian Federation is now a party to all treaties to which the U.S.S.R. was a party. Russia had ratified the convention on the 1st February 1913.
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