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protocols will require ratification by three countries to enter into force. It is difficult to predict how long this may take.* It goes without saying that the treaty and its protocols are binding only for those countries which ratify them. This is why the Alps can be protected from environmental degradation and unsustainable, unaesthetic development only when all seven Alpine countries have ratified the international accords. Facts and statistics about the Alps — an area that stretches from the French Alps along the Mediterranean Sea for 1,200 kilometres through the prosperous heart of Europe — are apt to be straggering. To begin with, around 90 million tons of merchandise are transported annually over the Alps — mostly in trucks — and by AD 2010 this commercial traffic is predicted to grow by up to 100%. 'Alpine experts strongly favour shifting a high proportion of lorry transport of goods to rail transportation', says Josef Biedermann, the Liechtensteiner President of the International Commission for the Protection of the Alps (CIPRA), 'and the Alpine Convention already makes this point.' CIPRA may legitimately claim credit for a decadeslong effort to persuade Alpine governments that they need such a treaty and a united policy for the preservation and sensible development of Europe's largest terrestrial superecocomplex.