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| 24.4.2012 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | L 112/6 |
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24.4.2012

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 112/6

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TREATY

TREATY

BETWEEN

BETWEEN

THE KINGDOM OF BELGIUM, THE REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA, THE CZECH REPUBLIC, THE KINGDOM OF DENMARK, THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY, THE REPUBLIC OF ESTONIA, IRELAND, THE HELLENIC REPUBLIC, THE KINGDOM OF SPAIN, THE FRENCH REPUBLIC, 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, ROMANIA, THE REPUBLIC OF SLOVENIA, THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC, THE REPUBLIC OF FINLAND, THE KINGDOM OF SWEDEN, THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND

THE KINGDOM OF BELGIUM, THE REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA, THE CZECH REPUBLIC, THE KINGDOM OF DENMARK, THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY, THE REPUBLIC OF ESTONIA, IRELAND, THE HELLENIC REPUBLIC, THE KINGDOM OF SPAIN, THE FRENCH REPUBLIC, 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, ROMANIA, THE REPUBLIC OF SLOVENIA, THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC, THE REPUBLIC OF FINLAND, THE KINGDOM OF SWEDEN, THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND

(MEMBER STATES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION)

MEMBER STATES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION

AND

AND

THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA

THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA

CONCERNING THE ACCESSION OF THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA TO THE EUROPEAN UNION

CONCERNING THE ACCESSION OF THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA TO THE EUROPEAN UNION

Article 3

1.   This Treaty shall be ratified by the High Contracting Parties in accordance with their respective constitutional requirements. The instruments of ratification shall be deposited with the Government of the Italian Republic by 30 June 2013.

2.   By ratifying this Treaty, the Republic of Croatia is also deemed to have ratified or approved any amendments to the Treaties referred to in Article 1(2) open for ratification or approval by the Member States pursuant to Article 48 of the Treaty on European Union at the moment of ratification of this Treaty by the Republic of Croatia, as well as any acts of the institutions, adopted at or before that same moment and which only enter into force after having been approved by the Member States in accordance with their respective constitutional requirements.

3.   This Treaty shall enter into force on 1 July 2013 provided that all the instruments of ratification have been deposited before that date.

4.   Notwithstanding paragraph 3, the institutions of the Union may adopt before accession the measures referred to in Article 3(7), Article 6(2), second subparagraph, 6(3), second subparagraph, 6(6), second and third subparagraphs, 6(7), second subparagraph, 6(8), third subparagraph, Article 17, Articles 29(1), 30(5), 31(5), 35(3) and (4), Articles 38, 39, 41, 42, 43, 44, 49, 50 and 51 and Annexes IV to VI of the Act referred to in Article 1(3).

These measures shall enter into force only subject to and on the date of the entry into force of this Treaty.

5.   Notwithstanding paragraph 3, Article 36 of the Act referred to in Article 1(3) applies upon signature of this Treaty.

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