1. Any State Party may propose an amendment to this Agreement by sending a request to the Secretary General of the ICPO-INTERPOL at least 120 days before the opening of the next General Assembly session.

2. The Secretary General of the ICPO-INTERPOL shall ensure that the request is complete and submitted within the applicable time limits. If these requirements are met, he or she will send a request to the Executive Committee for the inclusion of the amendment proposal on the provisional agenda of the General Assembly and circulate it to all Member Countries at least 90 days before the opening of the next General Assembly session.

3. The adoption of an amendment on which consensus cannot be reached shall require a three-fifths majority of States Parties present and voting at the General Assembly session, provided that a majority of States Parties is present.

4. The Secretary General shall circulate to all States Parties and signatory States any amendment so adopted.

5. An amendment shall enter into force for States Parties which have ratified or accepted the amendment sixty days after three-fifths of the States which were parties at the date of adoption of the amendment have deposited instruments of ratification or acceptance with the Secretary General of the ICPO- INTERPOL.

6. For each State Party ratifying or accepting an amendment after the deposit of the required number of instruments of ratification or acceptance, the amendment shall enter into force on the sixtieth day following the deposit of its instrument of ratification or acceptance.

7. A State which becomes a Party to the present Agreement after the entry into force of an amendment shall, failing an expression of different intention by that State:

State Party not bound by the amendment.