TREATIES AND OTHER INTERNATIONAL ACTS SERIES 14-613

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SCIENTIFIC COOPERATION

Agreement Between the 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

and the EUROPEAN UNION

Extending the 

Agreement of December 5, 1997

As Extended and Amended

Effected by Exchange of Notes at 

Brussels and Washington

April 28 and June 12, 2014
 

NOTE BY THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE

 Pursuant to Public Law 89—497, approved July 8, 1966

(80 Stat. 271; 1 U.S.C. 113)—

“. . .the Treaties and Other International Acts Series issued

under the authority of the Secretary of State shall be competent

evidence . . . of the treaties, international agreements other than

treaties, and proclamations by the President of such treaties and

international agreements other than treaties, as the case may be, 

therein contained, in all the courts of law and equity and of maritime

jurisdiction, and in all the tribunals and public offices of the

United States, and of the several States, without any further proof

or authentication thereof.”
 EUROPEAN UNION

 Scientific Cooperation

Agreement extending the agreement of December 5, 1997.

As extended and amended.

Effected by exchange of notes at Brussels and Washington,

 April 28 and June 12, 2014;

Entered into force June 13, 2014.
56814/05441

COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION

GENERAL SECRETARIAT

NOTE VERBALE

The General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union presents its compliments to

the United States Mission to the European Union and on behalf of the President of the Council, has

the honour to refer to the Agreement for scientific and technological cooperation between the

European Community and the Government of the United States of America, signed at Washington

on 5 December 1997 (hereinafter referred to as the "Agreement"), as extended on 14 October 2003

and extended and amended on 14 October 2008 and, in particular, to Article 12(b) of the Agreement.

The General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union further has the honour to notify the

United States Mission of the adoption, by the Council, of its decision approving the extension to the

Agreement, for an additional period of five years, effective as from 14 October 2013.

The General Secretariat of the Council proposes that this Note Verbale and a Note in reply from the

United States shall constitute the mutual written agreement between the European Community and

the Government of United States of America to extend the Agreement for an additional period of

five years, effective as from 14 October 2013, which shall enter into force on the date the General

Secretariat of the Council is in receipt of the United States' Note in reply.

The General Secretariat of the Council wishes to notify the Mission that "as a consequence of the

entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon on 1 December 2009, the European Union has replaced and

succeeded the European Community and from that date exercises all rights and assumes all

obligations of the European Community. Therefore, references to 'the European Community' in the

text of the Agreement are where appropriate, to be read as to 'the European Union'."

The General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union avails itself of this opportunity to

renew to the United States Mission to the European Union the expression of its highest

consideration.

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