EN Official Journal of the European Communities L 34/34

ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL

to the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Republic of Iceland consequent on the accession of the Republic of Austria, the Republic of Finland and the Kingdom of Sweden to the European Union

THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY, of the one part, and

THE REPUBLIC OF ICELAND of the other part,

HAVING REGARD to the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Republic of Iceland signed in Brussels on 22 July 1972, hereinafter called the ‘Agreement’,

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

CONSIDERING that in order to maintain trade flows between Iceland on the one hand and the new Member States on the other hand, it is necessary to make adjustments to arrangements applicable to trade in fishery products between Iceland and the Community;

HAVE DECIDED to determine by common accord the adjustments to the Agreement consequent on the accession of the Republic of Austria, the Republic of Finland and the Kingdom of Sweden to the European Union, AND TO CONCLUDE THIS PROTOCOL:

Article 1

The text of the Agreement, the Annexes and Protocols, which form an integral part thereof, the Final Act and the declarations annexed thereto shall be drawn up in the Finnish and Swedish languages and those texts shall be authentic in the same way as the original texts. The Joint Committee shall approve the Finnish and Swedish texts.

Article 2

The special provisions applicable to imports into the Community of certain fishery products originating in Iceland are laid down in the Annex to this Protocol.

Article 3

The Annex to this Protocol forms an integral part thereof. This Protocol forms an integral part of the Agreement.

Article 4

This Protocol shall be approved by the Contracting Parties in accordance with their own procedures. It shall enter into force on 1 December 1995 provided that the Contracting Parties have notified each other before that date that the procedures necessary to this end have been completed. After that date, the Protocol shall enter into force on the day following such notification. It shall apply as from 1 January 1995.

Article 5

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

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