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Article 37.Relation with protocolsRolling text (A/AC.254/4/Rev.2)A. Negotiation textsSecond session: 8-12 March 1999“[Article 26 bis“Relation with Protocols 1“1. This Convention may be supplemented by one or more Protocols.“2. In order to become a Party to a Protocol, a State must also be a Party tothe Convention.“3. A State Party to the Convention is not bound by a Protocol unless it hasexpressly accepted the Protocol.“4. Any Protocol by which a State Party is bound shall, for that State Party,form an integral part of this Convention.]”Sixth session: 6-17 December 1999Notes by the Secretariat1. The version of article 26 bis contained in document A/AC.254/4/Rev.2 remainedunchanged in the intermediate drafts of the convention (A/AC.254/4/Revs.3-5).Rolling text (A/AC.254/4/Rev.6)“[Article 26 bis“Relation with Protocols 2“1. This Convention may be supplemented by one or more Protocols.1Paragraphs 1 to 3 of article 26 bis were based on a proposal by Australia (A/AC.254/L.13) and paragraph 4 was proposedby Poland (see A/AC.254/5/Add.3). Several delegations noted their support for the approach reflected in these proposals.However, several delegations recalled that in paragraph 18 of the report of the Ad Hoc Committee on its first session(A/AC.254/9) it had been noted that, as the additional international legal instruments might require a broad scope, the possibilitycould not be excluded that they might be independent from the convention.2At the sixth session of the Ad Hoc Committee there was considerable discussion regarding whether a provisiongoverning the relationship between the convention and the protocols should be included in the text of the convention oronly in the text of each of the protocols. The Ad Hoc Committee was of the view that decisions on this matter and on theformulation of the text would be made once the substantive provisions of the convention and the protocols had beenfinalized. The Ad Hoc Committee requested the Secretariat to provide it with clauses dealing with the same subject in otherinternational instruments.297