Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage. Paris, 2 November 2001.¹

	States	Date of deposit of instrument	Type of instrument
1	Panama	20/05/2003	Ratification
2	Bulgaria	06/10/2003	Ratification
3	Croatia	01/12/2004	Ratification
4	Spain	06/06/2005	Ratification
5	Libya	23/06/2005	Ratification
6	Nigeria	21/10/2005	Ratification
7	Lithuania	12/06/2006	Ratification
8	Mexico	05/07/2006	Ratification
9	Paraguay	07/09/2006	Ratification
10	Portugal	21/09/2006	Ratification
11	Ecuador	01/12/2006	Ratification
12	Ukraine	27/12/2006	Ratification
13	Lebanon	08/01/2007	Acceptance
14	Saint Lucia	01/02/2007	Ratification
15	Romania	31/07/2007	Acceptance
16	Cambodia	24/11/2007	Ratification
17	Cuba	26/05/2008	Ratification
18	Montenegro	18/07/2008	Ratification
19	Slovenia	18/09/2008	Ratification
20	Barbados	02/10/2008	Acceptance
21	Grenada	15/01/2009	Ratification
22	Tunisia	15/01/2009	Ratification
23	Slovakia	11/03/2009	Ratification
24	Albania	19/03/2009	Ratification
25	Bosnia and Herzegovina	22/04/2009	Ratification
26	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	16/06/2009	Ratification
27	Haiti	09/11/2009	Ratification
28	Jordan	02/12/2009	Ratification
29	Saint Kitts and Nevis	03/12/2009	Ratification
30	Italy	08/01/2010	Ratification
31	Gabon	01/02/2010	Acceptance
32	Argentina	19/07/2010	Ratification
33	Honduras	23/07/2010	Ratification
34	Trinidad and Tobago	27/07/2010	Ratification
35	Democratic Republic of the Congo	28/09/2010	Ratification
36	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	08/11/2010	Ratification
37	Namibia	09/03/2011	Ratification
38	Morocco	20/06/2011	Ratification
39	Benin	04/08/2011	Ratification
40	Jamaica	09/08/2011	Ratification
41	Palestine	08/12/2011	Ratification
42	France	07/02/2013	Ratification
43	Antigua and Barbuda	25/04/2013	Ratification
44	Togo	07/06/2013	Ratification
45	Belgium	05/08/2013	Ratification
46	Bahrain	07/03/2014	Ratification
47	Hungary	19/03/2014	Ratification
48	Guyana	28/04/2014	Ratification
49	Madagascar	19/01/2015	Ratification
50	Algeria	26/02/2015	Ratification
51	South Africa	12/05/2015	Acceptance
52	Guatemala	03/11/2015	Ratification
53	Saudi Arabia	13/11/2015	Ratification
54	Ghana	20/01/2016	Ratification
55	Guinea-Bissau	07/03/2016	Acceptance
56	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	24/02/2017	Ratification
57	Kuwait	30/05/2017	Ratification
58	Egypt	30/08/2017	Ratification
59	Micronesia (Federated States of)	19/04/2018	Ratification
60	Costa Rica	27/04/2018	Ratification

¹In accordance with its Article 27, this Convention shall enter into force on 2 January 2009 for those States that have deposited their respective instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession on or before 2 October 2008. It shall enter into force for any other State three months after the deposit by that State of its instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession.

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Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage. Paris, 2 November 2001.¹