Energy Charter Protocol on energy efficiency and related environmental aspects

Parties with reservations, declarations and objections

Party	Reservations / Declarations	Objections
Australia	Yes	No
Russian Federation	Yes	No

Australia

15-10-2021

[…] Australia notified the Government of the Portuguese Republic, in the latter’s capacity as depositary of the Energy Charter Treaty, that it did not intend to become a Contracting Party to the Energy Charter Treaty and the Protocol on Energy Efficiency and Related Environmental Aspects, adopted in Lisbon on 17 December 1994.
Australia further declared that it did not consider itself bound, provisionally or in any other manner, to any provisions of the Energy Charter Treaty within 60 days of the day that this notification was received by the depositary.
Under article 45 (2) (c) and article 45 (3) (a) of the Energy Charter Treaty, the termination of the treaty’s provisional application for Australia will take effect on 13 December 2021. […]

Russian Federation

24-08-2009

Depositary communication.
Portugal would like to inform the Presidency and its partners that the Portuguese Government has received, on August 24th, as the Treaty Depository of the Energy Charter Treaty, a notification from the Russian Federation that it does not intend to become a Contracting Party to that Treaty.
The Russian Federation also declares in the same notification that it has no intention of becoming a Party to the Protocol of the Energy Charter related to the Energetic Efficiency and its Environmental Related Aspects.