SPAIN

CCPR SECOND OPTIONAL PROTOCOL

RESERVATIONS AND DECLARATIONS

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

Note

On 13 January 1998, the Government of Spain notified the Secretary-General that it had decided to withdraw its reservation made upon ratification. The reservation reads as follows:

Pursuant to article 2, Spain reserves the right to apply the death penalty in the exceptional and extremely serious cases provided for in Fundamental Act No. 13-1985 of 9 December 1985 regulating the Military Criminal Code, in wartime as defined in article 25 of that Act.

(Note 8, Chapter IV.12, Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary-General)