ARCHIVES HISTORIQUES
DELACOMMISSION
COLLECTION RELIEE DES
DOCUMENTS "COM"
COM (80)594
Vol.1980/0188

Disclaimer
Conformément aurèglement (CEE, Euratom) n°354/83 duConseil du1erfévrier 1983
concernant l'ouverture aupublic desarchives historiques delaCommunauté économique
européenne etdelaCommunauté européenne del'énergie atomique (JOL43du15.2.1983,
p.1),telquemodifié par lerèglement (CE, Euratom) n°1700/2003 du22septembre 2003
(JOL243du27.9.2003, p.1),cedossier estouvert aupublic. Lecaséchéant, lesdocuments
classifiés présents dans cedossier ontétédéclassifiés conformément àl'article 5dudit
règlement.
Inaccordance with Council Regulation (EEC, Euratom) No354/83 of1February 1983
concerning theopening tothepublic ofthehistorical archives oftheEuropean Economic
Community andtheEuropean Atomic Energy Community (OJL43,15.2.1983, p.1),as
amended byRegulation (EC, Euratom) No1700/2003 of22September 2003 (OJL243,
27.9.2003, p.1),this fileisopen tothepublic. Where necessary, classified documents inthis
filehave been declassified inconformity with Article 5oftheaforementioned regulation.
InÜbereinstimmung mitderVerordnung (EWG, Euratom) Nr.354/83 desRates vom 1.
Februar 1983 über die Freigabe der historischen Archive der Europäischen
Wirtschaftsgemeinschaft undderEuropäischen Atomgemeinschaft (ABI. L43vom 15.2.1983,
S.1),geändert durch dieVerordnung (EG, Euratom) Nr.1700/2003 vom 22.September 2003
(ABI. L243vom 27.9.2003, S.1),istdiese Datei derÖffentlichkeit zugänglich. Soweit
erforderlich, wurden dieVerschlusssachen indieser Datei inÜbereinstimmung mitArtikel 5
dergenannten Verordnung freigegeben.

COMMISSION
O.FTHE
■EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
GeneralSecretariatCOM(80)594 final
Brussels,16th October *1980
FOROFFICIAL USEONLY.
ACCESSION NEGOTIATIONS WITH SPAIN
ONTHEESTABLISHMENT OFSPANISH LANGUAGE
VERSIONS OFCOMMUNITY LEGISLATION
(Communication from the Commission tothe Council )
C0M(80 )594 final

TheaccessionofSpaintotheCommunitiesentailsthepreparation
ofanauthenticSpanishversionofCommunityprimarylegislation
1(theoriginalTreatiesestablishing theEECandtheEAECandthe
subsequentTreatiesamendingorsupplementing them,theTreatyandAct
concerningtheaccessionofthethreenewMemberStates,theTreatyand
ActconcerningtheaccessionofGreece,andotherdecisionsinthe
natureofagreementsbetweenMemberStates)andofalltheactsof
Communitysecondarylegislation (actsadoptedbytheinstitutions of
theCommunities )thatwillbeinforceatthetimeofSpain's
accession..
TheSpanish-languagetextsofprimarylegislation (Treaties,etc.)
shouldbedrawnupsothattheycanbeannexedtotheinstrumentsof
accessionandauthenticated bytheNegotiating Conference whenthe
instrumentsaresigned^.TheSpanishversionoftheactsof
Communitysecondarylegislation shouldbedrawnupbytheCouncilor
theCommissionforpublication (inaspecialeditionoftheOfficial
JournaloftheEuropeanCommunities )atthelatestonthedayonwhich
accessiontakes-place^.
ItisobviouslyessentialfortheCommunitytoensurethatthe
SpanishtextsofCommunitylegislationareincompleteconformity
-notonlyfromthelinguisticpointofviewbutespeciallyasregards
theirlegaleffect-withtheversionsintheotherlanguages,since
4theywillbeauthenticunderthesanjeconditionsastheseotherversions
andtoalargeextentdirectlyapplicableinSpain.
Giventhemagnitudeandscopeoftheworkinvolvedinestablishing
aSpanishlanguageversionofCommunitylegislation,astartought
tobemadenowtogetitregularlyunderway.
_____________ »•••/•
1Inthe-caseoftheTreatyestablishing theECSC,onlytheFrenchtext
isauthentic;theversionsintheotherlanguagesaretranslations .
^SeeArticle160ofthe1972ActofAccessionandArticle152ofthe
ActofAccessionofGreece.
^SeeArticle155ofthe1972ActofAccessionand.Article147ofthe
ActofAccessionofGreece.
4...SeetheArticlescitedir*footnotes2and3.

Inastatementmadeatthe4thsessionoftheConferenceatDeputy
1level<1February1980)onCommunitysecondarylegislation,the
I
CommunityDelegationpointedouttheneedtoembarkonthistaskwithout
delayandsaidItwouldshortlyproposetotheSpanishDelegation
themethodsandprocedurestobedefinedbycommonagreementfor
carryingoutthetask.Inareplygivenatthe5thsessionofthe
ConferenceatDeputylevel(14March1980),theSpanishDelegation
proposedsettingupagroupofSpanishandCommunityexpertsto
2co-ordinate thework.
■TheCommunitymusttherefore nowdefinetheprocedureandmethods
1tthinksshouldbeusedtoestablishtheauthenticSpanishversions
ofCommunitylegislation .
Accordingly,followingthepracticeestablished forthesimilar,
workcarriedout1nconnectionwiththepreviousenlargements ,the
CommunityshouldproposetotheSpanishDelegationthatbecauseof
thetechnicalnatureoftheworktheConference should invite the
CommissiontopreparedraftSpanishversionsofthetextsindicated
above,inconjunctionwiththeSpanishDelegation.
PriorityshouldgotothepreparationofSpanishversionsof
primarylegislation (theTreaties -etc.);thesewillbecheckedbya
workingpartyoflegal/linguisticexpertsincluding arepresentative
fromtheSpanishDelegation andwillbesubmitted -totheConference
/
forformalapprovalsothattheycanbeannexedtotheaccession
instruments .SpanishversionsofallactsofCommunitysecondary
legislation 1nforcecanthenbeestablished .
C0NF-
2C0NF-E/5/80
E/14/80