Protocol Agreement to the Partnership and Cooperation

establishing a partnership between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Russian Federation, of the other part

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,

THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NOTHERN IRELAND

Contracting Parties to the Treaty establishing the European Community, the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community and the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community,

hereinafter referred to as the "Member States", and

THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY, THE EUROPEAN COAL AND STEEL COMMUNITY AND THE EUROPEAN ATOMIC ENERGY COMMUNITY,

hereinafter referred to as "the Community",

of the one part, and

THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

of the other part,

HAVING REGARD TO the accession of the Republic of Austria, the Republic of Finland and the Kingdom of Sweden to the European Union and thereby to the Community on 1 January 1995,

HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS:

Article 1

The Republic of Austria, the Republic of Finland and the Kingdom of Sweden 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 the Russian Federation, of the other part, signed at Corfu on 24 June 1994 (hereinafter the "Agreement" and shall respectively adopt and take note, in the same manner, as the other Member States of the Community, of the texts of the Agreement, as well as of the Joint Declarations, Exchanges of Letters, and Declaration by the Russian Federation annexed to the Final Act signed on the same date.

Article 2

The texts of the Agreement, the Final Act and all documents annexed to it are drawn up in the Finnish and Swedish languages. They are annexed to the Protocol(1) and are equally authentic with the texts in the other languages in which the Agreement, the Final Act and the documents annexed to it are drawn up.

Article 3

This Protocol is drawn up in duplicate in the Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish and Russian languages, each of these texts being equally authentic.

Article 4

The Protocol will be approved by the Parties in accordance with their own procedures.

This Protocol shall enter into force on the first day of the second month following the day on which the Parties notify each other of the completion of the procedures referred to in the first paragraph.

Hecho en Bruselas, el /veintiuno de mayo de mil novecientos noventa y siete./Udf忙rdiget i Bruxelles den /enogtyvende maj nitten hundrede og syvoghalvfems./Geschehen zu Br眉ssel am /einundzwanzigsten Mai neunzehnhundertsiebenundneunzig./螆纬喂谓蔚 蟽蟿喂蟼 螔蟻蠀尉苇位位蔚蟼, 蟽蟿喂蟼 /蔚委魏慰蟽喂 渭委伪 螠伪螑慰蠀 蠂委位喂伪 蔚谓谓喂伪魏蠈蟽喂伪 蔚谓蔚谓萎谓蟿伪 蔚蟺蟿维./Done at Brussels on the /twenty-first day of May in the year one thousand nine hundred and ninety-seven./Fait 脿 Bruxelles, le /vingt et un mai mil neuf cent quatre-vingt-dix-sept./Fatto a Bruxelles, add矛 /ventuno maggio millenovecentonovantasette./Gedaan te Brussel, de /eenentwintigste mei negentienhonderdzevenennegentig./Feito em Bruxelas, em /vinte e um de Maio de mil novecentos e noventa e sete./Tehty Brysseliss盲 /kahdentenakymmenenten盲ensimm盲isen盲 p盲iv盲n盲 toukokuuta vuonna tuhatyhdeks盲nsataayhdeks盲nkymment盲seitsem盲n./Som skedde i Bryssel den /tjugof枚rsta maj nittonhundranittiosju./

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Pour le Royaume de Belgique/Voor het Koninkrijk Belgi毛/F眉r das K枚nigreich Belgien

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Cette signature engage également la Communauté française, la Communauté flamande, la Communauté germanophone, la Région wallonne, la Région flamande et la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale./Deze handtekening verbindt eveneens de Vlaamse Gemeenschap, de Franstalige Gemeenschap, de Duitstalige Gemeenschap, het Vlaamse Gewest, het Waalse Gewest en het Brusselse Hoofdstedelijke Gewest./Diese Unterschrift bindet zugleich die Deutschsprachige Gemeinschaft, die Fl盲mische Gemeinschaft, die Franz枚sische Gemeinschaft, die Wallonische Region, die Fl盲mische Region und die Region Br眉ssel-Hauptstadt.

P氓 Kongeriget Danmarks vegne

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F眉r die Bundesrepublik Deutschland

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螕喂伪 蟿畏谓 螘位位畏谓喂魏萎 螖畏渭慰魏蟻伪蟿委伪

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Por el Reino de Espa帽a

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Pour la République française

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Thar ceann na h脡ireann/For Ireland

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Per la Repubblica italiana

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Pour le Grand-Duché de Luxembourg

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Voor het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden

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F眉r die Republik 脰sterreich

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Pela Rep煤blica Portuguesa

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Suomen tasavallan puolesta/F枚r Republiken Finland

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F枚r Konungariket Sverige

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For the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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Por las Comunidades Europeas/For De Europ忙iske F忙llesskaber/F眉r die Europ盲ischen Gemeinschaften/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/Voor de Europese Gemeenschappen/Pelas Comunidades Europeias/Euroopan yhteis枚jen puolesta/F枚r Europeiska gemenskaperna

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(1) OJ L 327, 28.11.1997, p. 3.

Information relating to the entry into force of the Protocol to the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Russian Federation, of the other part

The Protocol to the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Russian Federation, of the other part, which has applied provisionally since 1 December 1997(1), will enter into force on 1 December 2000, the notifications regarding the completion of the procedures laid down in the second paragraph of Article 4 thereof having been completed by the Parties on 13 October 2000.

(1) OJ L 327,28.11.1997.