According to the Treaty of Chaguaramas, of the Caribbean Community shall be open to any other State or Territory of the Caribbean Region that is, in the opinion of The Conference, able and willing to exercise the rights and assume the obligations of.
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Paragraph 2 of Article VIII of The Agreement establishing the CXC provides for this Protocol and for privileges and immunities and to be granted by participating Governments to the Council, connection with such matters as its property, funds and assets, premises, archives, exemption from foreign exchange controls, taxes, customs duties, import or export duties, etc. Note - Article XX provides for Provisional Application of the Protocol “participating governments may, upon signature of this Protocol, or any later date before it enters into force, declare their intention to apply it provisionally.”
Date opened for Signature: 1997/06/17Antigua and Barbuda (19 March 2007) Grenada (August 19, 2002) Jamaica (July 4, 2003) St. Kitts/Nevis (July 23, 2004) St. Lucia (23 March 2007) St. Vincent and the Grenadines (August 24, 2004) Trinidad and Tobago (8 August 2005)
According to Article XVI this Protocol shall come into force upon the deposit of Instruments of Ratification with the Depository by three-quarters of the Participating Governments. (There are 16 Participating Governments, accordingly, ratifications are required from 12)