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712 Travaux préparatoires: United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime3. The version of article 20 contained in document A/AC.254/4/Add.2/Rev.3remained unchanged in the intermediate drafts of the protocol (A/AC.254/4/Add.2/Revs.4and 5).Rolling text (A/AC.254/4/Add.2/Rev.6)Twelfth session: 26 February-2 March 2001“Article 20“Signature, ratification, acceptance, approval and accession“1. This Protocol shall be open to all States for signature from [...] to [...] in[...] and thereafter at United Nations Headquarters in New York until [...].“2. This Protocol shall also be open for signature by regional economic integrationorganizations provided that at least one member State of such organizationhas signed this Protocol in accordance with paragraph 1 of this article.“3. This Protocol is subject to ratification, acceptance or approval. Instrumentsof ratification, acceptance or approval shall be deposited with the Secretary Generalof the United Nations. A regional economic integration organization may deposit itsinstrument of ratification, acceptance or approval if at least one of its member Stateshas done likewise. In that instrument of ratification, acceptance or approval, suchorganization shall declare the extent of its competence with respect to the mattersgoverned by this Protocol. Such organization shall also inform the depositary of anyrelevant modification in the extent of its competence.“4. This Protocol is open for accession by any State or any regional economicintegration organization of which at least one member State is a Party to thisProtocol. Instruments of accession shall be deposited with the Secretary General ofthe United Nations. At the time of its accession, a regional economic integrationorganization shall declare the extent of its competence with respect to matters governedby this Protocol. Such organization shall also inform the depositary of any relevantmodification in the extent of its competence.”Notes by the Secretariat4. In the draft of the protocol contained in document A/AC.254/4/Add.2/Rev.6, onthe basis of a proposal by China at the eleventh session of the Ad Hoc Committee, a newarticle 20 bis on reservations was added. The article read as follows :“[Article 20 bis“Reservations“1. Reservations shall be subject to the provisions of the Vienna Conventionon the Law of Treaties of 1969. 4“2. The Secretary General of the United Nations shall receive and circulate toall States the text of reservations made by States Parties at the time of ratification,acceptance, approval or accession.