1. ¹ The provisions of s. 1 (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), (h) and (2) (a). 1, those of s. 2 ^Bis , 5, 5 ^Bis And 7 and art. 10 to 16, including art. 11 ^Bis , 11 ^Ter And 12 ^Bis The Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Maritime Navigation, as amended by the 2005 Protocol on the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Maritime Navigation, Also apply Mutatis mutandis Offences referred to in s. 2, 2 ^Bis And 2 ^Ter Of this Protocol where such offences are committed on board or against fixed platforms located on the continental shelf.

2. In cases where this Protocol is not applicable in accordance with par. 1, its provisions shall, however, apply if the alleged offender or author of the offence is discovered in the territory of a State Party other than the State in the inland waters or in the territorial sea from which the fixed platform is situated.

3. For the purposes of this Protocol, "fixed platform" means an artificial island, facility or structure permanently attached to the seabed for the purpose of exploration or exploitation of resources or for other economic purposes.

1. Every person who, unlawfully and intentionally, is guilty of a criminal offence:

(a)

Seize a fixed platform or control it by violence or threat of violence; or

(b)

Carries out an act of violence against a person on board a fixed platform, if that act is such as to endanger the safety of the platform; or

(c)

Destroys a fixed platform or causes damage to its security; or

(d) ¹

Place or place on a fixed platform, by any means, a device or substance capable of destroying the fixed platform or such as to compromise its safety.

(e) ²

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2. ³ Any person who threatens to commit any of the offences referred to in s. 1 (b) and (c), if that threat is such as to compromise the security of the fixed platform, whether or not the threat is accompanied by a requirement under domestic law in order to compel a natural or legal person to perform or refrain from doing so To perform any act.

Any person who unlawfully and deliberately, when that act, by his or her nature or context, is guilty of an offence under this Protocol is intended to intimidate a population or to compel a government or an international organization to Perform or refrain from doing any of the following:

(a)

Uses against or on board a fixed platform, or discharges from a fixed platform, explosives, radioactive materials or NCBs, in a manner that causes or is likely to cause death or physical or material damage Serious; or

(b)

Discharges, from a fixed platform, hydrocarbons, liquefied natural gas, or other harmful or potentially dangerous substances that are not covered by para. (a) in quantities or concentrations that cause or are likely to cause death or serious bodily injury; or

(c)

Threat to commit any of the offences referred to in para. (a) or (b), whether or not the threat is accompanied by a condition under domestic law.

A person also commits an offence within the meaning of this Protocol any person who:

(a)

Unlawfully and deliberately injures or kills any person, where those facts present a connection with one of the offences referred to in subs. 1 of the art. 2 or to art. 2 ^Bis ; or

(b)

Attempts to commit an offence under s. 1 of the art. 2, para. (a) or (b) of s. 2 ^Bis Or para. (a) of this section; or

(c)

Becomes an accessory to an offence under s. 2 or 2 ^Bis Or para. (a) or (b) of this section; or

(d)

Organizes the commission of an offence under s. 2 or 2 ^Bis Or para. (a) or (b) of this section, or gives the order to other persons to commit it; or

(e)

Contributes to the commission of one or more of the offences referred to in s. 2 or 2 ^Bis Or para. (a) or (b) of this section, by a group of persons acting in concert, that contribution being deliberate and made either:

(i)

To facilitate the criminal activity of the group or to serve the purpose of the group, where such activity or purpose involves the commission of an offence under s. 2 or 2 ^Bis , or

(ii)

Knowing that the group intends to commit an offence under s. 2 or 2 ^Bis .

1. ¹ Each State Party shall take the necessary measures to establish its jurisdiction for the purpose of knowing the offences referred to in s. 2, 2 ^Bis And 2 ^Ter When the offence is committed:

(a)

Against or on board a fixed platform while on the continental shelf of that State; or

(b)

By a national of that State.

(2) A State Party may also establish its jurisdiction for the purpose of knowing any of these offences:

(a)

When committed by a stateless person who has his or her habitual residence in that State;

(b)

Where, in the course of its commission, a national of that State is detained, threatened, injured or killed; or

(c)

When committed in order to compel that State to perform any act or to refrain from doing so.

3. ² Any State Party which has established its jurisdiction for the cases referred to in s. 2 informs the Secretary-General. If that State Party subsequently cancels that jurisdiction, it shall inform the Secretary-General.

4. ³ Each State Party shall take the necessary measures to establish its jurisdiction for the purpose of knowing the offences referred to in s. 2, 2 ^Bis And 2 ^Ter In cases where the alleged offender is in his territory and where he does not extradite him to any of the States Parties which have established their jurisdiction in accordance with s. 1 and 2.

5. This Protocol shall not preclude any criminal jurisdiction exercised in accordance with national law.

Nothing in this Protocol shall affect in any way the rules of international law relating to fixed platforms located on the continental shelf.

The final clauses of the 2005 Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Fixed Platforms Located on the Continental Shelf are Art. 8 to 13 of the 2005 Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Fixed Platforms Located on the Continental Shelf. References in this Protocol to the States Parties shall be considered as references to the States Parties to the 2005 Protocol.

1. This Protocol shall be open on 10 March 1988 in Rome and, from 14 March 1988 to 9 March 1989, at the Headquarters of the International Maritime Organization (hereinafter referred to as " the Organization) , at the signature of any State which has signed the Convention. It then remains open for accession.

2. States may express their consent to be bound by this Protocol by:

(a)

Signature without reservation as to ratification, acceptance or approval; or

(b)

Signature subject to ratification, acceptance or approval, followed by ratification, acceptance or approval; or

(c)

Membership.

3. The ratification, acceptance, approval or accession shall be effected by the deposit of an instrument to that effect with the Secretary-General.

4. Only a State which has signed the Convention without reservation as to ratification, acceptance or approval or which has ratified, accepted, approved or acceded to the Convention may become a Party to this Protocol.

(1) This Protocol shall enter into force ninety days after the date on which three States have either signed the Protocol without reservation as to ratification, acceptance or approval, or deposited an instrument of ratification, Acceptance, approval or accession. However, this Protocol shall not enter into force before the entry into force of the Convention.

2. For a State which deposits an instrument of ratification, acceptance or approval of this Protocol or of accession to it after the conditions governing its entry into force have been fulfilled, ratification, acceptance, approval Or accession takes effect ninety days after the date of filing.

1. This Protocol may be denounced by any of the States Parties at any time after the expiration of a period of one year from the date on which this Protocol enters into force with respect to that State.

2. Denunciation shall be effected by means of the deposit of an instrument of denunciation with the Secretary-General.

(3) Denunciation shall take effect one year after the date on which the Secretary-General has received the instrument of denunciation or upon the expiration of any longer period laid down in that instrument.

4. A denunciation of the Convention by a State Party shall be deemed to be a denunciation of this Protocol by that Party.

1. A conference may be convened by the Organization with a view to revising or amending this Protocol.

2. The Secretary-General shall convene a conference of the States Parties to this Protocol to revise or amend the Protocol, at the request of one third of the States Parties or of five States Parties, if the latter number is higher.

3. Any instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession deposited after the date of entry into force of an amendment to this Protocol shall be deemed to apply to the Protocol as amended.

This Protocol shall be deposited with the Secretary-General.

2. The Secretary-General:

(a)

Inform all States which have signed or acceded to this Protocol and all Members of the Organization:

(i)

Any new signature or deposit of a new instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession, as well as of their date;

(ii)

The date of entry into force of this Protocol;

(iii)

The deposit of any instrument of denunciation of this Protocol and the date on which it was received and the date on which the denunciation takes effect;

(iv)

Receipt of any declaration or notification made under this Protocol or the Convention concerning this Protocol;

(b)

Transmit certified copies of this Protocol to all States which have signed or acceded to it.

3. Upon the entry into force of this Protocol, a certified copy shall be transmitted by the Depositary to the Secretary-General of the United Nations to be registered and published in accordance with art. 102 of the United Nations Charter ¹ .

This Protocol shall be established in a single original in the Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish languages, each text being equally authentic.

In witness whereof, The undersigned, duly authorized to that effect by their respective Governments, have signed this Protocol.

Done at Rome this 10th day of March, nine hundred and eighty-eight.

(Suivent signatures)