Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what information his Department holds on which nations have (a) successfully incorporated and (b) are in the process of incorporating relevant measures of the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty into domestic law.

37 countries have ratified the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty and its first five annexes. This comprises all 29 Consultative Parties, i.e. those with voting rights at the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting, and eight non-Consultative Parties. In addition, twelve Consultative Parties have ratified Annex VI of the Environmental Protocol on liability arising from an environmental emergency. A further three Consultative Parties have notified of their progress towards ratification of Annex VI. Annex VI will come into force when ratified by all 28 Consultative Parties that were entitled to attend the twenty-eighth Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting.