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, approval or conclusion» 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 25 April 1979 until and including 16 May 1979 by Governments of countries party to the Convention as further extended by the 1978 Protocol, or which are provisionally regarded as party to the Convention as further extended by the 1978 Protocol, on 21 March 1979, 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, approval or conclusion
This Protocol shall be subject to ratification, acceptance, approval or conclusion by each signatory Government in accordance with its respective constitutional or institutional procedures. Instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or conclusion shall be deposited with the Government of the United States of America not later than 22 June 1979, 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, approval or conclusion by that date.
ARTICLE 7
Accession