22006A0816(02)

Protocol

to the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and Ukraine, of the other part (PCA), on accession of the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic to the PCA and on adjustments to the PCA

THE KINGDOM OF BELGIUM,

THE CZECH REPUBLIC,

THE KINGDOM OF DENMARK,

THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY,

THE REPUBLIC OF ESTONIA,

THE HELLENIC REPUBLIC,

THE KINGDOM OF SPAIN,

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC,

IRELAND,

THE ITALIAN REPUBLIC,

THE REPUBLIC OF CYPRUS,

THE REPUBLIC OF LATVIA,

THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA,

THE GRAND DUCHY OF LUXEMBOURG,

THE REPUBLIC OF HUNGARY,

THE REPUBLIC OF MALTA,

THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS,

THE REPUBLIC OF AUSTRIA,

THE REPUBLIC OF POLAND,

THE PORTUGUESE REPUBLIC,

THE REPUBLIC OF SLOVENIA,

THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC,

THE REPUBLIC OF FINLAND,

THE KINGDOM OF SWEDEN,

THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND,

hereinafter referred to as the "Member States", represented by the Council of the European Union, and

THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY AND THE EUROPEAN ATOMIC ENERGY COMMUNITY,

hereinafter referred to as "the Communities", represented by the Council of the European Union and the European Commission,

of the one part, and

UKRAINE

of the other part,

hereinafter referred to as "Parties" for the purposes of this Protocol,

HAVING REGARD TO the provisions of the Treaty between the Kingdom of Belgium, the Kingdom of Denmark, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Hellenic Republic, the Kingdom of Spain, the French Republic, Ireland, the Italian Republic, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Republic of Austria, the Portuguese Republic, the Republic of Finland, the Kingdom of Sweden and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Member States of the European Union), and the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic concerning the accession of the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic to the European Union, which was signed in Athens on 16 April 2003 and will enter into force on 1 May 2004,

CONSIDERING the new situation in relations between Ukraine and the European Union arising from the accession to the European Union of 10 new Member States, which opens opportunities and brings about challenges for the cooperation between Ukraine and the European Union,

TAKING INTO ACCOUNT the desire of the Parties to ensure the attainment and implementation of the objectives and principles of the PCA,

HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS:

Article 1

The Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic shall be Parties to the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement, establishing a partnership between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and Ukraine, of the other part, signed in Luxembourg on 14 June 1994 and which entered into force on 1 March 1998 (hereinafter the Agreement) and shall respectively adopt and take note, in the same manner as other Member States of the Community, of the texts of the Agreement, and of the Joint Declarations, Declarations and Exchanges of Letters annexed to the Final Act signed on the same date and the Protocol to the Agreement of 10 April 1997 that entered into force on 12 October 2000.

Article 2

1. To take account of recent institutional developments within the European Union, the Parties agree that following the expiry of the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community, existing provisions in the Agreement referring to the European Coal and Steel Community shall be deemed to refer to the European Community which has taken over all rights and obligations contracted by the European Coal and Steel Community.

2. To take account of the institutional developments that have taken place in the international trading system of the GATT-WTO, the Parties agree that the existing references to the GATT throughout the text of the Agreement shall be deemed to refer to the GATT 1994, and the provision "Ukraine's accession to the GATT" shall be understood as "Ukraine's accession to the WTO".

3. To take account of the development of the treaty base of the European Energy Charter, the Parties agree that existing references to the European Energy Charter throughout the text of the Agreement shall be considered to include references to the Energy Charter Treaty and to the Energy Charter Protocol on Energy Efficiency and Related Environmental Aspects.

Article 3

This Protocol shall form an integral part of the Agreement.

Article 4

1. This Protocol shall be approved by the Communities, by the Council of the European Union on behalf of the Member States and by Ukraine in accordance with their own procedures.

2. The Parties shall notify each other of the completion of the corresponding procedures referred to in the preceding paragraph. The instruments of approval shall be deposited with the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union.

Article 5

1. This Protocol shall enter into force on the same day as the Treaty on Accession provided that all the instruments of approval of this Protocol have been deposited before that date.

2. Where not all instruments of approval of this Protocol have been deposited before that date, this Protocol shall enter into force on the first day of the first month following the date of the deposit of the last instrument of approval.

3. Where not all instruments of approval of this Protocol have been deposited before 1 May 2004, this Protocol shall apply provisionally with effect from 1 May 2004.

Article 6

The texts of the Agreement, the Final Act and all documents annexed to it, as well as the Protocol to the Agreement of 10 April 1997, are drawn up in the Czech, Estonian, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Slovak and Slovene languages.

They are annexed [1] to this Protocol and are equally authentic with the texts in the other languages in which the Agreement, the Final Act and the documents annexed to it, as well as the Protocol to the Agreement of 10 April 1997 are drawn up.

Article 7

This Protocol is drawn up in duplicate in the Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish and Ukrainian languages, each of these texts being equally authentic.

Hecho en Dubl铆n, el veintinueve de abril de dos mil cuatro.

V Dublinu dne dvac谩tého dev谩tého dubna dva tis铆ce 膷ty艡i.

Udf忙rdiget i Dublin den niogtyvende april to tusind og fire.

Geschehen zu Dublin am neunundzwanzigsten April zweitausendundvier.

Kahe tuhande neljanda aasta aprillikuu kahek眉mne 眉heksandal p盲eval Dublinis.

螆纬喂谓蔚 蟽蟿慰 螖慰蠀尾位委谓慰, 蟽蟿喂蟼 蔚委魏慰蟽喂 蔚谓谓苇伪 螒蟺蟻喂位委慰蠀 未蠉慰 蠂喂位喂维未蔚蟼 蟿苇蟽蟽蔚蟻伪.

Done at Dublin on the twenty-ninth day of April in the year two thousand and four.

Fait 脿 Dublin, le vingt-neuf avril deux mille quatre.

Fatto a Dublino, add矛 ventinove aprile duemilaquattro.

Dublin膩, divi t奴ksto拧i ceturt膩 gada divdesmit dev墨taj膩 apr墨l墨.

Priimta du t奴kstan膷iai ketvirt懦 met懦 baland啪io dvide拧imt devint膮 dien膮 Dubline.

Kelt Dublinban, a kétezer-negyedik év 谩prilis hav谩nak huszonkilencedik napj谩n.

Mag魔mul f' Dublin fid-disg魔a u g魔oxrin jum ta' April tas-sena elfejn u erbg魔a.

Gedaan te Dublin, de negenentwintigste april tweeduizendvier.

Sporz膮dzono w Dublinie, dnia dwudziestego dziewi膮tego kwietnia roku dwa tysi膮ce czwartego.

Feito em Dublim, em vinte e nove de Abril de dois mil e quatro.

V Dubline dvadsiatehodeviateho apr铆la dvetis铆c拧tyri.

V Dublinu, dne devetindvajsetega aprila leta dva tiso膷 拧tiri.

Tehty Dublinissa kahdentenakymmenenten盲yhdeks盲nten盲 p盲iv盲n盲 huhtikuuta vuonna kaksituhattanelj盲.

Som skedde i Dublin den tjugonionde april tjugohundrafyra.

袙褔懈薪械薪芯 褍 袛褍斜谢褨薪褨, 写胁邪写褑褟褌褜 写械胁'褟褌芯谐芯 泻胁褨褌薪褟 写胁褨 褌懈褋褟褔褨 褔械褌胁械褉褌芯谐芯 褉芯泻褍.

Por los Estados miembros

Za 膷lenské st谩ty

For medlemsstaterne

F眉r die Mitgliedstaaten

Liikmesriikide nimel

螕喂伪 蟿伪 魏蟻维蟿畏 渭苇位畏

For the Member States

Pour les 脡tats membres

Per gli Stati membri

Dal墨bvalstu v膩rd膩

Valstybi懦 nari懦 vardu

A tag谩llamok részér艖l

G魔all-Istati Membri

Voor de lidstaten

W imieniu Pa艅stw Cz艂onkowskich

Pelos Estados-Membros

Za 膷lenské 拧t谩ty

Za dr啪ave 膷lanice

J盲senvaltioiden puolesta

P氓 medlemsstaternas v盲gnar

袟邪 袛械褉卸邪胁懈-效锌械薪懈

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Por las Comunidades Europeas

Za Evropsk谩 spole膷enstv铆

For De Europ忙iske F忙llesskaber

F眉r die Europ盲ischen Gemeinschaften

Euroopa 眉henduste nimel

螕喂伪 蟿喂蟼 螘蠀蟻蠅蟺伪蠆魏苇蟼 螝慰喂谓蠈蟿畏蟿蔚蟼

For the European Communities

Pour les Communautés européennes

Per le Comunit脿 europee

Eiropas Kopienu v膩rd膩

Europos Bendrij懦 vardu

Az Eur贸pai K枚z枚sségek részér艖l

G魔all-Komunitajiet Ewropej

Voor de Europese Gemeenschappen

W imieniu Wsp贸lnot Europejskich

Pelas Comunidades Europeias

Za Eur贸pske spolo膷enstv谩

Za Evropske skupnosti

Euroopan yhteis枚jen puolesta

P氓 Europeiska gemenskapernas v盲gnar

袟邪 袝胁褉芯锌械泄褋褜泻褨 小锌褨胁褌芯胁邪褉懈褋褌胁邪

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Por Ucrania

Za Ukrajinu

For Ukraine

F眉r die Ukraine

Ukraina nimel

螕喂伪 蟿畏谓 螣蠀魏蟻伪谓委伪

For Ukraine

Pour l'Ukraine

Per l'Ucraina

Ukrainas v膩rd膩

Ukrainos vardu

Ukrajna részér艖l

G魔all-Ukrajna

Voor Oekra茂ne

W imieniu Ukrainy

Pela Ucr芒nia

Za Ukrajinu

Za Ukrajino

Ukrainan puolesta

P氓 Ukrainas v盲gnar

袟邪 校泻褉邪褩薪褍

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[1] The Czech, Estonian, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Slovak and Slovenian versions of the Agreement shall be published in the special edition of the Official Journal at a later date.

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