Second Protocol to the Hague Convention of 1954 for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict. The Hague, 26 March 1999.¹

	States	Date of deposit of instrument	Type of instrument
1	Bulgaria	14/06/2000	Ratification
2	Qatar	04/09/2000	Ratification
3	Belarus	13/12/2000	Ratification
4	Panama	08/03/2001	Accession
5	Azerbaijan	17/04/2001	Ratification
6	Cyprus	16/05/2001	Ratification
7	Nicaragua	01/06/2001	Accession
8	Spain	06/07/2001	Ratification
9	Libya	20/07/2001	Accession
10	Argentina	07/01/2002	Accession
11	Austria	01/03/2002	Ratification
12	Lithuania	13/03/2002	Accession
13	El Salvador	27/03/2002	Accession
14	The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia	19/04/2002	Accession
15	Serbia	02/09/2002	Accession
16	Honduras	26/01/2003	Accession
17	Gabon	29/08/2003	Accession
18	Mexico	07/10/2003	Accession
19	Equatorial Guinea	19/11/2003	Accession
20	Costa Rica	09/12/2003	Accession
21	Slovakia	11/02/2004	Ratification
22	Slovenia	13/04/2004	Accession
23	Switzerland	09/07/2004	Ratification
24	Ecuador	02/08/2004	Ratification
25	Finland	27/08/2004	Acceptance
26	Paraguay	09/11/2004	Accession
27	Estonia	17/01/2005	Approval
28	Guatemala	04/02/2005	Accession
29	Greece	20/04/2005	Ratification
30	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	24/05/2005	Accession
31	Peru	24/05/2005	Ratification
32	Luxembourg	30/06/2005	Ratification
33	Egypt	03/08/2005	Ratification
34	Brazil	23/09/2005	Accession
35	Nigeria	21/10/2005	Ratification
36	Hungary	26/10/2005	Ratification
37	Canada	29/11/2005	Accession
38	Croatia	08/02/2006	Ratification
39	Tajikistan	21/02/2006	Accession
40	Armenia	18/05/2006	Ratification
41	Niger	16/06/2006	Accession
42	Romania	07/08/2006	Ratification
43	Uruguay	03/01/2007	Accession
44	Netherlands	30/01/2007	Acceptance
45	Montenegro	26/04/2007	Notification of succession
46	Czech Republic	08/06/2007	Accession
47	Japan	10/09/2007	Accession
48	Saudi Arabia	06/11/2007	Accession
49	Bahrain	26/08/2008	Accession
50	Chile	11/09/2008	Accession
51	Barbados	02/10/2008	Accession
52	Dominican Republic	03/03/2009	Accession
53	Jordan	05/05/2009	Accession
54	Bosnia and Herzegovina	22/05/2009	Accession
55	Italy	10/07/2009	Ratification
56	Germany	25/11/2009	Ratification
57	Georgia	13/09/2010	Accession
58	Belgium	13/10/2010	Ratification
59	Colombia	24/11/2010	Accession
60	Oman	16/05/2011	Ratification
61	Poland	03/01/2012	Accession
62	Palestine	22/03/2012	Accession
63	Benin	17/04/2012	Accession
64	Mali	15/11/2012	Accession
65	Cambodia	17/09/2013	Ratification
66	New Zealand	23/10/2013	Accession
67	Morocco	05/12/2013	Ratification
68	South Africa	11/02/2015	Accession
69	Norway	05/09/2016	Accession

¹This Protocol entered into force on 9 March 2004. It subsequently will entered into force for each State three months after the date of deposit of that State’s instrument, except in cases of notifications of succession, where the entry into force occurred on the date on which the State assumed responsibility for conducting its international relations.

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Second Protocol to the Hague Convention of 1954 for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict. The Hague, 26 March 1999.1

Second Protocol to the Hague Convention of 1954 for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict. The Hague, 26 March 1999.¹