Membership
The treaty has been signed or acceded to by fifty-one countries and the European Union. All members have ratified the Treaty except for Australia, Belarus, Iceland, Norway, and Russia. Belarus has accepted provisional application of the Treaty, which means that it applies the Treaty to the extent that it is consistent with its own constitutions, laws and regulations.
There are four levels of participation that a state could have, depending on the instruments applied (marking noted in brackets):
- Organization of the Energy Charter Conference member or observer that is not yet party to the 1991 Energy Charter (O)
- some of these states have begun, but not yet finished the process of adopting the 1991 Charter (O+)
- 1991 Energy Charter signatory state (OC)
- some of these states have begun, but not yet finished the process of ratifying the 1994 Treaty and Protocol (OC+)
- 1994 Energy Charter Treaty and Protocol ratifier state (OCT)
- some of these states have begun, but not yet finished the process of ratifying the 1998 Amendment (OCT+)
- 1998 Trade Amendment ratifier state (OCTA)
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