Declaration made upon ratification:
"Spain declares that, in the event that the present Protocol were to be ratified by the United Kingdom and extended to the territory of Gibraltar, Spain wishes to make the following Statement:
1. Gibraltar is a non-autonomous territory whose international relations come under the responsibility of the United Kingdom, and which is subject to a decolonisation process in accordance with the relevant decisions and resolutions of the General Assembly of the United Nations.
2. The authorities of Gibraltar have a local Administration status and exercise exclusively internal competences which have their origin and their foundation in a distribution and attribution of competences performed by the United Kingdom in compliance with its internal legislation, in its capacity as sovereign State on which the mentioned non-autonomous territory depends.
3. As a result, it is considered that the eventual participation of the Gibraltarian authorities in the application of this Protocol will be carried out exclusively as part of the internal competences of Gibraltar and cannot be considered to modify in any way the declarations formulated in the two previous paragraphs.
4. The process provided for by the "Agreed Arrangements relating to Gibraltar authorities in the context of certain international treaties" which have been adopted by Spain and the United Kingdom on 19 December 2007, jointly with the "Agreed Arrangements relating to Gibraltar authorities in the context of EU and EC instruments and related treaties", dated 19 April 2000 apply to the Additional Protocol to the Convention on cybercrime, concerning the criminalisation of acts of a racist and xenophobic nature committed through computer systems.
5. The application of the said Protocol to Gibraltar should not be interpreted as an acknowledgment of any right or any situation regarding areas not covered by Article X of the Treaty of Utrecht of 13 July 1713, concluded between the Kingdoms of Spain and of the Great Britain."