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The Madrid Protocol becomes open to a review conference

2048 (earliest possible review) · Scheduled — not yet observed · geopolitics

A declared plan or target. A scheduled date passing is not confirmation that anything occurred. The word the source used for it is planned.

Fifty years after entry into force, any consultative party may request a conference to review the Protocol's operation. This is a procedural door opening, not an expiry: the mining prohibition does not lapse, and changing it would require both agreement at such a conference and a binding legal regime in force. It is recorded here as a declared programme date because it is the single most misreported fact about Antarctic governance.

Source

Secretariat of the Antarctic Treaty · Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty, Madrid, 4 October 1991; text published by the Secretariat of the Antarctic Treaty at https://www.ats.aq/e/protocol.html

Standing

This record: partially verified · publisher: partially verified

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Where

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Subject

TREATY_ENVIRONMENTAL_PROTOCOL_1991 · Antarctica