The Convention on the Regulation of Antarctic Mineral Resource Activities (popular as CRAMRA) is a treaty that is part of the

Antarctic Treaty System russian: link=no, Договор об Антарктике es, link=no, Tratado Antártico , name = Antarctic Treaty System , image = Flag of the Antarctic Treaty.svgborder , image_width = 180px , caption ...

. The convention was concluded at

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on 2 June 1988. The government of New Zealand is the depository of the treaty. The convention was signed by 19 states, but no states have ratified it. Therefore, the convention never entered into force and has been replaced by the 1998

Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty, also known as the Madrid Protocol, is a complementary legal instrument to the Antarctic Treaty signed in Madrid on October 4, 1991. It entered into force on January 14, 1998. The ...

(Madrid Protocol).L. Ivanov and N. Ivanova. CRAMRA Convention. In
''The World of Antarctica''.
Generis Publishing, 2022. pp. 140-143.

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