LUXEMBOURG

CEDAW

RESERVATIONS AND DECLARATIONS

(Unless otherwise indicated, the reservations and declarations were made upon ratification, accession or succession)

Note

On 9 January 2008, the Government of Luxembourg notified the Secretary-General that it had decided to withdraw the reservations made upon ratification. The text of the reservations reads as follows:

a) The application of article 7 shall not affect the validity of the article of our Constitution concerning the hereditary transmission of the crown of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg in accordance with the family compact of the house of Nassau of 30 June 1783, maintained by article 71 of the Treaty of Vienna of 9 June 1815 and expressly maintained by article 1 of the Treaty of London of 11 May 1867.

(b) The application of paragraph 1 (g) of article 16 of the Convention shall not affect the right to choose the family name of children.

(Note 69, Chapter IV.8, Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary-General)