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FOREWORD

The Convention on the Marking of Plastic Explosives for the Purpose of Detection, done at Montréal on 1 March 1991, entered into force on 21 June 1998. The Technical Annex thereto, forming an integral part of this Convention, has been amended as follows:

1. The first amendment, to delete ortho-Mononitrotoluene (o-MNT) from the list of detection agents, entered into force on 27 March 2002.

2. The second amendment, to increase the minimum concentration level of 2,3-Dimethyl-2,3-dinitrobutane (DMNB) detection agent from 0.1 to 1.0 per cent by mass, entered into force on 19 December 2005.

This document contains the text of the Convention, incorporating the two above-mentioned amendments, in the English, French, Russian, Spanish and Arabic languages.