Treaties that create institutions or set common rules for commerce, intellectual property and the environment: the European treaties that created and reformed the Union, the North American free trade agreement, the patent cooperation treaty and the conventions on wetlands, oil pollution at sea and Antarctica. A document belongs here when its cited article describes such a treaty. It excludes peace and security treaties.
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Convention of Constantinople (Wikipedia)
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The Convention of Constantinople is a treaty concerning the use of the Suez Canal in the Ottoman-ruled Khedivate of Egypt.
View the Source Metre Convention (Wikipedia)
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The treaty created the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM), an intergovernmental organization, under the authority of the General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) and the supervision of the International Committee for Weights and Measures (CIPM).
View the Source Berne Convention (Wikipedia)
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The countries to which the convention applies created a Union for the protection of the rights of authors in their literary and artistic works, known as the Berne Union.
View the Source Outer Space Treaty (Wikipedia)
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The Outer Space Treaty, formally called the Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies, is a multilateral treaty that forms the basis of international space law.
View the Source Bretton Woods system (Wikipedia)
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The Bretton Woods system of monetary management established the rules for commercial relations among 44 countries, including the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, European countries, and Australia, after the 1944 Bretton Woods Agreement until the Jamaica Accords in 1976.
View the Source WIPO Copyright Treaty (Wikipedia)
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The World Intellectual Property Organization Copyright Treaty (WIPO Copyright Treaty or WCT) is an international treaty on copyright law adopted by the member states of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in 1996.
View the Source Nagoya Protocol (Wikipedia)
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Its aim is the implementation of one of the three objectives of the CBD: the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising out of the utilization of genetic resources, thereby contributing to the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity.
View the Source Universal Copyright Convention (Wikipedia)
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Universal Copyright Convention (UCC) is an international instrument which was drawn up in 1952 under the auspices of UNESCO.
View the Source Maastricht Treaty (Wikipedia)
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The Treaty on European Union, commonly known as the Maastricht Treaty, is the foundation treaty of the European Union (EU).
View the Source Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (Wikipedia)
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Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants is an international environmental treaty, signed on 22 May 2001 in Stockholm and effective from 17 May 2004, that aims to eliminate or restrict the production and use of persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
View the Source TRIPS Agreement (Wikipedia)
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The Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) is an international legal agreement between all the member nations of the World Trade Organization (WTO).
View the Source International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea (Wikipedia)
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They are derived from a multilateral treaty called the Convention on the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, also known as Collision Regulations of 1960.
View the Source Kyoto Protocol (Wikipedia)
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The Kyoto Protocol was adopted in Kyoto, Japan, on 11 December 1997 and entered into force on 16 February 2005.
View the Source Moon Treaty (Wikipedia)
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The Agreement Governing the Activities of States on the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies, better known as the Moon Treaty or Moon Agreement, is a multilateral treaty that turns jurisdiction of all celestial bodies (including the orbits around such bodies) over to the participant countries.
View the Source Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs (Wikipedia)
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The convention also establishes the International Narcotics Control Board.
View the Source Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (Wikipedia)
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The Vienna Convention on Consular Relations is an international treaty that defines a framework for consular relations between sovereign states.
View the Source Montreux Convention Regarding the Regime of the Straits (Wikipedia)
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The (Montreux) Convention regarding the Regime of the Straits, often known simply as the Montreux Convention, is an international agreement governing the Bosporus and Dardanelles straits in Turkey.
View the Source Treaty of Wanghia (Wikipedia)
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By the terms of the diplomatic agreement, the United States received the same privileges with China that Great Britain had achieved under the Treaty of Nanking in 1842.
View the Source General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Wikipedia)
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The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is a legal agreement between many countries, whose overall purpose was to promote international trade by reducing or eliminating trade barriers such as tariffs or quotas.
View the Source Treaty of Lisbon (Wikipedia)
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The Treaty of Lisbon (initially known as the Reform Treaty) is a European agreement that amends the two treaties which form the constitutional basis of the European Union (EU).
View the Source Antarctic Treaty System (Wikipedia)
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The Antarctic Treaty and related agreements, collectively known as the Antarctic Treaty System (ATS), regulate international relations with respect to Antarctica, Earth's only continent without a native human population.
View the Source MARPOL 73/78 (Wikipedia)
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The International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973 as modified by the Protocol of 1978, or "MARPOL 73/78" (short for "marine pollution") is one of the most important international marine environmental conventions.
View the Source North American Free Trade Agreement (Wikipedia)
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The North American Free Trade Agreement (Spanish: Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte, TLCAN; French: Accord de libre-échange nord-américain, ALÉNA), referred to colloquially in the Anglosphere as NAFTA ( NAF-tÉ™), was an agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States that created a trilateral trade bloc in North America.
View the Source Patent Cooperation Treaty (Wikipedia)
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The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) is an international patent law treaty, concluded in 1970.
View the Source Ramsar Convention (Wikipedia)
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The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance Especially as Waterfowl Habitat is an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable use of Ramsar sites (wetlands).
View the Source Single European Act (Wikipedia)
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The Single European Act (SEA) was the first major revision of the 1957 Treaty of Rome.
View the Source Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe (Wikipedia)
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The Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe (TCE; commonly referred to as the European Constitution or as the Constitutional Treaty) was an unratified international treaty intended to create a consolidated constitution for the European Union (EU).
View the Source Treaty of Nice (Wikipedia)
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The Treaty of Nice reformed the institutional structure of the European Union to withstand eastward expansion, a task which was originally intended to have been done by the Amsterdam Treaty, but failed to be addressed at the time.
View the Source Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (Wikipedia)
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The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (VCLT) is an international agreement that regulates treaties among sovereign states.
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