d)Articles 29 to 31 inclusive.
ARTICLE 3
Definition
Any reference in this Protocol to a «Government» or «Governments» shall be construed as including a reference to the European Economic Community (hereinafter referred to as «the Community»). Accordingly, any reference in this Protocol to «signature» or to the «deposit of instruments of ratification, acceptance or approval» or «an instrument of accession» or «a declaration of provisional application» by a Government shall, in the case of the Community, be construed as including signature or declaration of provisional application on behalf of the Community by its competent authority and the deposit of the instrument required by the institutional procedures of the Community to be deposited for the conclusion of an international agreement.
ARTICLE 4
Finance
The initial contribution of any exporting or importing member acceding to this Protocol under paragraph 1, b), of Article 7 thereof shall be assessed by the Council on the basis of the votes to be distributed to it and the period remaining in the current crop year, but the assessments made upon other exporting and importing members for the current crop year shall not be altered.
ARTICLE 5
Signature
This Protocol shall be open for signature in Washington from 24 March 1981 until and including 15 May 1981 by Governments of countries Parties to the Convention as further extended by the 1979 Protocol, or which are provisionally regarded as Parties to the Convention as further extended by the 1979 Protocol, on 6 March 1981, or which are members of the United Nations, of its specialized agencies or of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and are listed in Annex A or Annex B to the Convention.
ARTICLE 6
Ratification, acceptance or approval
This Protocol shall be subject to ratification, acceptance or approval by each signatory Government in accordance with its respective constitutional procedures. Instruments of ratification, acceptance or approval shall be deposited with the Government of the United States of America not later than 30 June 1981, except that the Council may grant one or more extensions of time to any signatory Government that has not deposited its instrument of ratification, acceptance or approval by that date.
ARTICLE 7
Accession