1. This Protocol shall enter into force on the date of receipt of the last of the notes with which the Contracting Parties notify each other that all internal legal requirements for its entry into force have been fulfilled.
2. This Protocol shall be valid for a period of four years. Upon the expiration of this period its validity shall be automatically extended each time for one year, unless either Contracting Party denounces it in writing through diplomatic channels at the latest 3 months prior to its expiration.
Done in Ljubljana on 3 October 2002 in two original copies, in the English language.