PfP SOFA definition

PfP SOFA means the Agreement among the States Parties to the North Atlantic Treaty and the other States Participating in the Partnership for Peace regarding the Status of Their Forces, signed in Brussels on 19 June 1995, including the Additional Protocol to this Agreement, dated 19 June 1995, the Further Additional Protocol, dated 19 December 1997, and any further Protocols thereto which enter into force in the territory of the Portuguese Republic;

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PfP SOFA wherever the expressiom appears im the presemt Protocol, meams the "Agreememt amomg the States Parties to the North Atlamtic †reaty amd the other States Participatimg im the Partmership for Peace regardimg the Status of their Forces”, dome at Brussels, Jume 19, 1995. 3. NA†O” meams the North Atlamtic †reaty Orgamizatiom. 4. NA†O military headquarters” meams Allied Headquarters amd other imtermatiomal military headquarters or orgamizatioms fallimg withim Article 1 amd Article 14 of the Paris Protocol. Article II Without prejudice to the rights of States which are Members of NA†O or participamts im the Partmership for Peace but which are mot Parties to the presemt Protocol, the Parties hereto shall apply provisioms idemtical to those set forth im the Paris Protocol, except as modified im the presemt Protocol, with respect to the activities of NA†O military headquarters amd their military amd civiliam persommel carried out im the territory of a Party hereto. 1. Im additiom to the area to which the Paris Protocol applies, the presemt Protocol shall apply to the territory of all States Parties to the presemt Protocol, as described im Article II paragraph 1 of the PfP SOFA.

Examples of PfP SOFA in a sentence

• This objection shall not preclude the entry into force of the PfP SOFA and the Additional Protocol thereto between the Russian Federation and Finland.

• The Parties shall facilitate the execution of the Agreement, the Protocol, the PfP SOFA, and this Supplementary Agreement and shall endeavour to cooperate in the most efficient manner to effectively implement the said agreements.

• The Government of Finland recalls Article III(2)(b) of the Nato SOFA and notes that such a requirement would constitute an additional obligation for other Parties to the PfP SOFA which would unduly hamper the co-operation under this Treaty.

• The United States, however, considers some of the ‘understandings’ to be reservations that purport to exclude or modify the legal effect of certain provisions of the PfP SOFA, and others to purport to create additional obligations for the Parties beyond those explicitly contained in the PfP SOFA.

• Finland recalls also in this connection the declaration included in the instrument of ratification of the PfP SOFA by Finland concerning the exercise, on the territory of Finland, of the jurisdiction by courts of a sending state [see footnote 3].

• The provisions of PfP SOFA (Agreement Among the States Parties to the North Atlantic Treaty and the Other States Participating in the Partnership for Peace regarding the Status of Their Forces) and its Additional Protocol, done on June 19, 1995, shall be duly applicable, mutatis mutandis, to this agreement, following the completion of the ratification processes of these instruments by the Parties.

• Claims not covered by the PfP SOFA shall be governed by applicable national and international law binding upon the Parties.

• If at the date when this Agreement enters into force there are still Parties which have not yet ratified PfP SOFA, the legal status of the Force will be defined by a separate Agreement among all Parties.

• Thus, the PfP SOFA will become operative without Russian Federation benefiting from its reservations.

• FP will be implemented in accordance with NATO policy and procedures and in a manner consistent with the NATO or PfP SOFA.