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COMMISSION OFTHEEUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
COM(73)406final
Brussels,9march1973
MEMORANDUM PROMTHECOMMISSION
TOTHECOUNCIL
ACCESSION OPDENMARKANDIRELANDTOTHEAGREEMENT CONCLUDED
WITHTHEINTERNATIONAL ATOMICENERGYAGENCYINIMPLEMENTATION
OPTHENON-PROLIFERATION TREATY
DRAFT
COUNCILDECISIONAPPROVING CERTAINAMENDMENTS TOTHEAGREEMENT
NEGOCIATED WITHTHEINTERNATIONAL ATOMICENERGYAGENCYIN
IMPLEMENTATION OPTHETREATYONTHENON-PROLIFERATION OF
NUCLEARWEAPONS
COM(73)406final
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XII/3/73
MEMORANDUM FROM THE COMMISSION TOTHE COUNCIL
ACCESSION OFDENMARK AND IRELAND TOTHE AGREEMENT CONCLUDED
wITH THE INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY .AGENCY .INIMPLEMENTATION
OF .THE NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY
The Act concerning the conditions ofaccession ofthenewMember
States totheEuropean Communities provides inArticle k(2)andin
Protocol 29that thenewMember States shall undertake toaccede ,under
theconditions laid down inthis Act ,toagreements orconventions
concluded bythe original Member States and amyoftheCommunities ,
acting jointly ,andinparticular that Denmark andIreland ,shall under­
take toaccede totheagreement tobeconcluded with theInternational
Atomic Energy Agency inimplementation oftheNon-Proliferation Treaty .
Taking account ofthis provision ,theCommunity 'sdelegation
which in1971-72 negotiated anagreement with theInternational Atomic
Energy Agency inthecontext oftheNon-Proliferation Treaty has had
inserted inthis agreement aclause which enables non-nuclear -weapon.
States which become members oftheCommunity after theconclusion of
theagreement toaccede tothe said agreement .Atthe time itwas •
envisaged that theagreement would beconcluded before the end of1972 .
- i •"
Inactual fact ,thesigning oftheagreement will not beable
totake place until early April <Inthemeantime ,twonon-nuclear -
weapon States ,namely Denmark andIreland ,have become members ofthe
Community .Since these two .States arenowin .the same legal situation
astheother Member States notpessessing nuclear weapons ,itis
accordingly natural that they should beshovra inthe same way asthe
latter among theoriginal parties totheagreement and that they should
sign itatthe same time astheFive .
Inorder totake account ofthis newsituation ,thetext ofthe
agreement ,which theCouncil approved on20September 1972 ,would have
tobesubjected toasmall number offormal adjustments .
These adjustments are contained inthe document annexed tothis
memorandum .TheCommission therefore lays before theCouncil the (
appended draft Decision approving the amendments inquestion .

XIl/3/73
DRAFT AMENDMENTS
tothe agreement between theKingdom ofBelgium ,,theFederal Republic
ofGermany ,theItalian Republic ,theGrand-Duchy ofLuxembourg ,the
Kingdom oftheNetherlands ,theEuropean Atomic Energy Community and
theInternational Atomic Energy Agency ,inimplementation ofArticle III
(1)and (*0oftheTreaty ontheNon-Prolif eration ofNuclear Weapons
1)Inthetitle oftheagreement itwould benecessary toadd th :ewords
"theKingdom ofDenmark "and "Ireland "after "theKingdom ofBelgium ".
2)Inthe first "Khereas "ofthepreamble itwould benecessary toadd
the same words atthe same point .
3)In .thethirteenth "Whereas "ofthepreamble itwould benecessary to
replace thephrase "noting that ,when they signed theTreaty ,the
States made itknown "bythefollowing words :"noting that theStates
which were members of' "theCommunity when they signed theTreaty ,
made itknown ,anthis occasion ,".
k)Inthetitle andintheintroductory paragraph tothe "Subsidiary
Arrangements ",which incorporate thetitle oftheagreement ^-this
should beamended asindicated under point 1)above .

xil/3/73
Draft
COUNCIL DECISION APPROVING CERTAIN AMENDMENTS TOTHE AGREEMENT
NEGOTIATED '«ITH THE INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY INIMPLE­
MENTATION OFTHE TREATY ONTHE NON-PROLIFERATION OFNUCLEAR WEAPONS
TheCouncil oftheEuropean Communities ,
Having regard totheTreaty establishing theEuropean Atomic Energy
Community andinparticular Article 101 (2)thereof ;
Having regard totheagreement between theKingdom ofBelgium ,the
Federal Republic ofGermany ,theItalian Republic ,,theGrand-Duchy of
Luxembourg ,theKingdom oftheNetherlands ,theEuropean Atomic Energy
Community and theInternational Atomic Energy Agency ,inimplementation
ofArticle III (1)and (k)oftheTreaty ontheNon-Proliferation of
Nuclear Weapons ,which wasapproved bytheCouncil on20September 1972 ;
Having regard tothedraft amendments tothe said agreement submitted
bytheCommission ;
Whereas theKingdom ofDenmark and Ireland became members ofthe
European Communities on1January 1973 ;
Whereas itisappropriate that these twoMember States should be
parties totheagreement inquestion ;
Whereas itisappropriate that thedraft amendments totheagreement
submitted bytheCommission beapproved ;
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION
Sole Article
Thewording oftheamendments totheagreement between the
Kingdom ofBelgium ,theFederal Republic ofGermany ,theItalian
Republic ,theGrand-Duchy ofLuxembourg ,theKingdom oftheNetherlands ,
theEuropean Atomic Energy Community and the International Atomic
Energy Agency ,inimplementation ofArticle III (1)andCOofthe
Treaty ontheNon-Proliferation ofNuclear Weapons ,ishereby approved .
Done at date