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296 Travaux préparatoires: United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized CrimeB. Approved text adopted by the General Assembly(see resolution 55/25, annex I)Article 36Signature, ratification, acceptance, approval and accession1. This Convention shall be open to all States for signature from 12 to15 December 2000 in Palermo, Italy, and thereafter at United Nations Headquartersin New York until 12 December 2002.2. This Convention shall also be open for signature by regional economicintegration organizations provided that at least one member State of such organizationhas signed this Convention in accordance with paragraph 1 of this article.3. This Convention is subject to ratification, acceptance or approval.Instruments of ratification, acceptance or approval shall be deposited with theSecretary-General of the United Nations. A regional economic integration organizationmay deposit its instrument of ratification, acceptance or approval if at leastone of its member States has done likewise. In that instrument of ratification,acceptance or approval, such organization shall declare the extent of its competencewith respect to the matters governed by this Convention. Such organizationshall also inform the depositary of any relevant modification in the extent of itscompetence.4. This Convention is open for accession by any State or any regionaleconomic integration organization of which at least one member State is a Partyto this Convention. Instruments of accession shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations. At the time of its accession, a regional economicintegration organization shall declare the extent of its competence with respect tomatters governed by this Convention. Such organization shall also inform thedepositary of any relevant modification in the extent of its competence.C. Interpretative noteThe interpretative note on article 36 of the convention approved by the AdHoc Committee and contained in its report on the work of its first to eleventhsessions (see A/55/383/Add.1, para. 61) is as follows:While the convention has no specific provision on reservations, it is understoodthat the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties of 1969 7 applies regardingreservations.7United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1155, No. 18232.