Article 44 [Regional Integration Organizations]

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (hereinafter CRPD) is the first human rights treaty to be opened for signature by a Regional integration organization (RIOs). In virtue of the clause provided by Article 44 of the Convention, "Regional integration organizations" (RIOs) the opportunity to become Party of the CRPD by the signature and the deposition of their acts of formal confirmation or accession. In conformity with Articles 14-16 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties between States and International Organizations or between International Organizations of 1986, these acts establish the consent of an international organization to be bound by a treaty. Under Article 44, the notion of "Regional integration organizations" should be broadly interpreted as to cover all regional organizations having competence as regards the rights protected in the CRPD.