We, Qaboos bin Said, the Sultan of Oman
after perusal of the Basic Statute of the State issued by Royal Decree 101/96,
the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer, approved by the Conference of Plenipotentiaries held in Vienna on 22 March 1985,
and the Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer and its amendments in London in 1990 and Copenhagen in 1992,
and in pursuance of public interest,
have decreed as follows
Article I
The accession of the Sultanate of Oman to the mentioned Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer and Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer and its amendments is hereby approved.
Article II
Competent entities shall deposit the instruments of accession with the Secretary-General of the United Nations in accordance with the provisions of both the convention and the protocol.
Article III
This decree must be published in the Official Gazette, and comes into force from the date of its issuance.
Issued on: 7 Jumada Al-Akhirah 1419
Corresponding to: 28 September 1998
Qaboos bin Said
Sultan of Oman
Published in Official Gazette 632 issued on 3 October 1998.