Recalling that Article 18 of the Agreement Establishing the CARICOM Regional Organisation for Standards and Quality provides for its provisional entry into force by eight signatories of the said Agreement;

Desiring to operationalise expeditiously the Agreement Establishing the CARICOM Regional Organisation for Standards and Quality (CROSQ),

Have agreed as follows:

Provisional Application of the Agreement Establishing the CARICOM Regional Organisation for Standards and Quality

The signatories of this Protocol hereby agree to apply provisionally among themselves the Agreement Establishing the CARICOM Regional Organisation for Standards and Quality (CROSQ) pending its definitive entry into force in accordance with Article 19 thereof.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF the undersigned plenipotentiaries being duly authorised have affixed their signatures to this Protocol.

DONE at ___ Belize City, Belize____on the___Fifth____day of___February 2002.

Signed by
for the Government of Antigua and Barbuda on the day of 2002
at

Signed by OWEN ARTHUR
for the Government of Barbados on the Fifth day of February 2002
at Belize City, Belize

Signed by SAID MUSA
for the Government of Belize on the Fifth day of February 2002
at Belize City, Belize

Signed by
for the Government of the Commonwealth of Dominica on the day of 2002
at

Signed by ELVIN NIMROD
for the Government of Grenada on the Fifth day of February 2002
at Belize City, Belize

Signed by BHARRAT JAGDEO
for the Government of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana on the Fifth day of February 2002
at Belize City, Belize

Signed by P. J. PATTERSON
for the Government of Jamaica on the Fifth day of February 2002
at Belize City, Belize

Signed by
for the Government of Montserrat on the day of 2002
at

Signed by DENZIL DOUGLAS
for the Government of St. Kitts and Nevis on the Fifth day of February 2002
at Belize City, Belize

Signed by
for the Government of Saint Lucia on the day of 2002
at

Signed by RALPH GONSALVES
for the Government of St. Vincent and the Grenadines on the Fifth day of February 2002
at Belize City, Belize

Signed by RUNALDO VENETIAAN
for the Government of the Republic of Suriname on the Fifth day of February 2002
at Belize City, Belize

Signed by KNOWLESON GIFT
for the Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago on the Fifth day of February 2002
at Belize City, Belize