| These are the Commission as a dynamic technocracy, with the Council as the body required to ratify Commission action. |
| The floor leader in the Senate for ratification and for the opposition, agreed that the resolution to ratify should come up for discussion. |
| In Sydney, ice sculptures of kangaroos and koalas melted during a protest by green groups over Australia's refusal to ratify the pact. |
| This became a done deal after Russia agreed to ratify the agreement. |
| Technically, as all 25 member states must ratify the treaty for it to take effect, it is dead. |
| States parties must not only sign but they must ratify and domesticate the provisions of a Convention in order to make it applicable. |
