PROTOCOL

amending the Agreement on Air Transport between Canada and the European Community and its Member States, to take account of the accession to the European Union of the Republic of Croatia

CANADA,

of the one part, and

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 REPUBLIC OF CROATIA,

THE ITALIAN REPUBLIC,

THE REPUBLIC OF CYPRUS,

THE REPUBLIC OF LATVIA,

THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA,

THE GRAND DUCHY OF LUXEMBOURG,

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,

being parties to the Treaty on European Union and to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and being Member States of the European Union (hereinafter ‘the Member States’), and

THE EUROPEAN UNION,

of the other part,

HAVING REGARD TO the accession of the Republic of Croatia to the European Union on 1 July 2013,

HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS:

Article 1 The Republic of Croatia is a Party to the Agreement on Air Transport between Canada and the European Community and its Member States (1), signed on 17 December 2009 (hereinafter ‘the Agreement’).

Article 2 The text of the Agreement in the Croatian language (2) shall be authentic under the same conditions as the other language versions.

Article 3 This Protocol shall be approved by the Parties in accordance with their own procedures. It shall enter into force on the date of entry into force of the Agreement. However, should this Protocol be approved by the Parties after the date of entry into force of the Agreement, it would then enter into force, in accordance with Article 23(1) of the Agreement, one month after the date of the latest diplomatic note in which the Parties confirm that all necessary procedures for the entry into force of this Protocol have been completed.

Done at Brussels, in duplicate, on the twenty-seventh day of January in the year two thousand and seventeen, in the English, French, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish and Swedish languages, each text being equally authentic. За държавите членки Por los Estados miembros Za členské státy For medlemsstaterne Für die Mitgliedstaaten Liikmesriikide nimel Για τα κράτη μέλη For the Member States Pour les États membres Za države članice Per gli Stati membri Dalībvalstu vārdā – Valstybių narių vardu A tagállamok részéről Għall-Istati Membri Voor de lidstaten W imieniu Państw Członkowskich Pelos Estados-Membros Pentru statele membre Za členské štáty Za države članice Jäsenvaltioiden puolesta För medlemsstaterna За Европейския съюз Рог la Unión Europea Za Evropskou unii For Den Europæiske Union Für die Europäische Union Euroopa Liidu nimel Για την Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση For the European Union Pour l'Union européenne Za Europsku uniju Per l'Unione europea Eiropas Savienības vārdā – Europos Sąjungos vardu Az Európai Unió részéről Għall-Unjoni Ewropea Voor de Europese Unie W imieniu Unii Europejskiej Pela União Europeia Pentru Uniunea Europeană Za Európsku úniu Za Evropsko unijo Euroopan unionin puolesta För Europeiska unionen За Канада Por Canadá Za Kanadu For Canada Für Kanada Kanada nimel Για τον Καναδά For Canada Pour le Canada Za Kanadu Per il Canada Kanādas vārdā – Kanados vardu Kanada részéről Għall-Kanada Voor Canada W imieniu Kanady Pelo Canadá Pentru Canada Za Kanadu Za Kanado Kanadan puolesta För Kanada

(1) The text of the Agreement is published in OJ L 207, 6.8.2010, p. 32.

(2) The Croatian text of the Agreement will be published in the Official Journal at a later date.