If this Agreement has not entered into force definitively on 1 February 2008, it shall enter into force provisionally on that date or on any date within six months thereafter if 10 Governments of producers holding at least 50 per cent of the total votes as set out in Annex A to this Agreement and seven Governments of consumers as listed in Annex B and accounting for 50 per cent of the global import volume of tropical timber in the reference year 2005 have signed this Agreement definitively or have ratified, accepted or approved it pursuant to Article 36, paragraph 2, or have notified the depositary under Article 38 that they will apply this Agreement provisionally.
Če ta sporazum ne začne dokončno veljati 1. februarja 2008, začne začasno veljati na ta datum ali na kateri koli datum v šestih mesecih po njem, če 10 vlad držav proizvajalk, ki imajo najmanj 50% skupnih glasov, kakor je določeno v Prilogi A tega sporazuma, in 7 vlad držav potrošnic iz Priloge B, ki predstavljajo 50% celotnega uvoza tropskega lesa v referenčnem letu 2005, dokončno podpiše ali ratificira, sprejme ali odobri ta sporazum na podlagi odstavka 2 člena 36 ali uradno obvesti depozitarja na podlagi člena 38, da bodo ta sporazum uporabljale začasno.