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Reference:   WLI/100  4 January 2021  
AGREEMENT ON TRADE IN CIVIL AIRCRAFT  
 
PROTOCOL (2015) AMENDING THE ANNEX TO THE  
AGREEMENT ON TRADE IN CIVIL AIRCRAFT  
DONE AT GENEVA ON 5 NOVEMBER 2015  
 
COMMUNICATION FROM THE UNITED KINGDOM  
 
We have the honour to inform you that on 1 January 2021 we have received the 
following communication from the United Kingdom:  
 
"WHEREAS the Agreement on Trade in Civil Aircraft, done at Geneva on 12 April 1979 
(the "Agreement "), as subsequently modified, rectified  or amended, was incorporated 
into Annex 4 of the Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization 
(the "Marrakesh Agreement "); 
WHEREAS on 20 March 1980 the United Kingdom became a Signatory to the Agreement;  
WHEREAS the Annex to the Agreement  was most recently amended by the Protocol 
(2015) Amending the Annex to the Agreement on Trade in Civil Aircraft, done at Geneva 
on 5 November 2015 (the "Protocol ");  
WHEREAS on 26 April 2017 the European Union accepted the Protocol, which 
accordingly covered the United Kingdom;  
WHEREAS the United Kingdom ceased to be a Member State of the European Union on 
31 January 2020;  
WHEREAS the Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and 
Northern Ireland from the European U nion and the European Atomic Energy Agency, 
done at London and Brussels on 24 January 2020, entered into force on 1  February 
2020 and provides, among other things, for a transition period until 31  December 2020 
(the "transition period ") during which time the United Kingdom is treated as a Member 
State of the European Union for the purpose of the Protocol . 
WHEREAS the United Kingdom has notified to the Director -General of the World Trade 
Organization the extension of the application of its ratification  of the Marrakesh 
Agreement to the Bailiwicks of Guernsey and Jersey, for whose international relations 
the United Kingdom is responsible, with effect from the expiry of the transition period;  
WHEREAS the United Kingdom intends to continue participating in  the Protocol as a 
Signatory to the Agreement after the transition period;  
AND WHEREAS the procedures necessary to this end have been completed by the 
United  Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland;  
NOW THEREFORE the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern 
Ireland, having considered the aforementioned Protocol, confirms its continued 
acceptance to the same from 1 January 2021 in respect of:  
 
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland   
The Bailiwick of Guernsey  The Bailiwick of Jersey  
The Isle of Man  
 
and undertakes faithfully to continue to perform and carry out the stipulations therein 
contained.  
IN WITNESS WHEREOF this Instrument is signed and sealed by Her Majesty 's Principal 
Secretary of State for Foreign, Comm onwealth  and Development Affairs.  
Done at London the 10th day of December , Two Thousand and twenty.  
 
 
          DOMINIC RAAB"  
 
 
 
 
 
 
Yonov Frederick Agah  
  
Karl Brauner  
  
Alan Wolff  
  
Xiaozhun Yi  
Deputy Directors -General  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
21-0016 WT/Let/ 1502