Energy Charter Treaty

104 (2) Any such withdrawal shall take effect upon the expiry of one year after the date of the receipt of the notification by the Depositary, or on such later date as may be specified in the notification of withdrawal. (3) The provisions of this Treaty shall continue to apply to Investments made in the Area of a Contracting Party by Investors of other Contracting Parties or in the Area of other Contracting Parties by Investors of that Contracting Party as of the date when that Contracting Party’s withdrawal from the Treaty takes effect for a period of 20 years from such date. (4) All Protocols to which a Contracting Party is party shall cease to be in force for that Contracting Party on the effective date of its withdrawal from this Treaty. Article 48: Status of Annexes and Decisions 106 The Annexes to this Treaty and the Decisions set out in Annex 2 to the Final Act of the European Energy Charter Conference signed at Lisbon on 17 December 1994, as well as the Decisions adopted in connection with the adoption of the Amendment to the Trade-Related Provisions of the Energy Charter Treaty are an integral part of the Energy Charter Treaty. Article 49: Depositary The Government of the Portuguese Republic shall be the Depositary of this Treaty. Article 50: Authentic Texts In witness whereof the undersigned, being duly authorised to that effect, have signed this Treaty in English, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish, of which every text is equally authentic, in one original, which will be deposited with the Government of the Portuguese Republic. Done at Lisbon on the seventeenth day of December in the year one thousand nine hundred and ninety-four. 107 106 As amended by Art. 7 of the Amendment to the Trade-Related Provisions of the Energy Charter Treaty. 107 For signatories: http://www.energycharter.org/.