Status of ratifications to Maritime Conventions Etat des ratifications aux conventions de Droit Maritime
Convention internationale pour l’unification de certaines règles concernant les Immunités des navires d’Etat

Bruxelles, 10 avril 1926
et protocole additionnel

Bruxelles, 24 mai 1934
Entrée en vigueur: 8 janvier 1937

International convention for the
unification of certain rules
concerning the
Immunity of State-ownedships

Brussels, 10th April 1926
and additional protocol

Brussels, May 24th 1934
Entered into force: 8 January 1937
(Translation)


Argentina (a) 19.IV.1961
Belgium (r) 8.I.1936
Brazil (r) 8.I.1936
Chile (r) 8.I.1936
Cyprus (a) 19.VII.1988
Denmark (r) 16.XI.1950
Estonia (r) 8.I.1936
France (r) 27.VII.1955
Germany (r) 27.VI.1936
Greece (a) 19.V.1951
Hungary (r) 8.I.1936
Italy (r) 27.I.1937
Luxembourg (a) 18.II.1991
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (r) 27.I.1937
Madagascar (r) 27.I.1955
Netherlands (r) 8.VII.1936
Curaçao, Dutch Indies
Norway (r) 25.IV.1939
Poland (r) 16.VII.1976
Portugal (r) 27.VI.1938
Romania (r) 4.VIII.1937
(denunciation – 21.IX.1959)
Somalia (r) 27.I.1937
Sweden (r) 1.VII.1938
Switzerland (a) 28.V.1954
Suriname (r) 8.VII.1936
Syrian Arab Republic (a) 17.II.1960
Turkey (a) 4.VII.1955
United Arab Republic (a) 17.II.1960
United Kingdom* (r) 3.VII.1979
    United Kingdom for Jersey,
    Guernsey and Island of Man
(a) 19.V.1988
Uruguay (a) 15.IX.1970
Zaire (a) 17.VII.1967

Reservations

United Kingdom
We reserve the right to apply Article 1 of the Convention to any claim in respect of a ship which falls within the Admiralty jurisdiction of Our courts, or of Our courts in any territory in respect of which We are party to the Convention. We reserve the right, with respect to Article 2 of the Convention to apply in proceedings concerning another High Contracting Party or ship of another High Contracting Party the rules of procedure set out in Chapter II of the European Convention on State Immunity, signed at Basle on the Sixteenth day of May, in the Year of Our Lord One thousand Nine hundred and Seventy-two.
In order to give effect to the terms of any international agreement with a non-Contracting State, We reserve the right to make special provision:
(a) as regards the delay or arrest of a ship or cargo belonging to such a State, and (b) to prohibit seizure of or execution against such a ship or cargo.

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