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
State Parties SignatureRatification / Accession 1)Reservation / Declaration 2)
Argentina 07.01.2002  
Armenia22.10.1999 18.05.2006  
Austria17.05.1999 01.03.2002  
Azerbaijan 17.04.2001  
Bahrain 26.08.2008  
Barbados 02.10.2008  
Belarus26.03.1999 13.12.2000  
Bosnia-Herzegovina 22.05.2009  
Brazil 23.09.2004  
Bulgaria15.09.1999 14.06.2000  
Canada 29.11.2005 29.11.2005 (text)
Chile 11.09.2008  
Costa Rica 09.12.2003  
Croatia17.05.1999 08.02.2006  
Cyprus19.08.1999 16.05.2001  
Czech Republic 08.06.2007  
Dominican Republic 03.03.2009  
Ecuador29.12.1999 02.08.2004  
Egypt29.12.1999 03.08.2005  
El Salvador 27.03.2002  
Equatorial Guinea 19.11.2003  
Estonia17.05.1999 17.01.2005  
Finland17.05.1999 09.11.2004  
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 19.04.2002  
Gabon 29.08.2003  
Greece 20.04.2005  
Guatemala 04.02.2005  
Honduras 26.01.2003  
Hungary17.05.1999 26.10.2005  
Iran (Islamic Rep.of) 24.05.2005 24.05.2005 (text)
Italy26.03.1999 10.07.2009  
Japan 10.09.2007  
Jordan 05.05.2009  
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya 20.07.2001  
Lithuania 13.03.2002  
Luxembourg17.05.1999 30.06.2005  
Mexico 07.10.2003  
Montenegro (Republic of) 26.04.2007  
Netherlands17.05.1999 30.01.2007  
Nicaragua 01.06.2001  
Nigeria17.05.1999 21.10.2005  
Niger 16.06.2006  
Panama 08.03.2001  
Paraguay 09.11.2004  
Peru13.07.1999 24.05.2005  
Qatar17.05.1999 04.09.2000  
Romania08.11.1999 07.08.2006  
Saudi Arabia 06.11.2007  
Serbia (Republic of) 02.09.2002  
Slovakia22.12.1999 11.02.2004  
Slovenia 13.04.2004  
Spain17.05.1999 06.07.2001  
Switzerland26.03.1999 09.07.2004  
Tajikistan 21.02.2006  
Uruguay 03.01.2007  

1) Ratification : a treaty is generally open for signature for a certain time following the conference which has adopted it. However, a signature is not binding on a State unless it has been endorsed by ratification. The time limits having elapsed, the Conventions and the Protocols are no longer open for signature. The States which have not signed them may at any time accede or, in the appropriate circumstances, succeed to them.
Accession : instead of signing and then ratifying a treaty, a State may become party to it by the single act called accession.
2) Reservation / Declaration : unilateral statement, however phrased or named, made by a State when ratifying, acceding or succeeding to a treaty, whereby it purports to exclude or to modify the legal effect of certain provisions of the treaty in their application to that State (provided that such reservations are not incompatible with the object and purpose of the treaty).