Protocol to the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement establishing a partnership between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Moldova, of the other part
Date: 1997-05-15
Institutions: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, European Atomic Energy Community, European Coal and Steel Community, European Community, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Moldova, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom
Subjects: EAEC, ECSC, Moldova, accession to the European Union, cooperation agreement (EU), cooperation policy, protocol to an agreement

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PROTOCOL TO THE PARTNERSHIP AND COOPERATION AGREEMENT

establishing a partnership between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one
part, and the Republic of Moldova, of the other part

THE KINDGOM OF BELGIUM,

THE KINDGOM OF DENMARK,

THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY,

THE HELLENIC REPUBLIC,

THE KINDGOM OF SPAIN,

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC,

IRELAND,

THE ITALIAN REPUBLIC,

THE GRAND DUCHY OF LUXEMBOURG,

THE KINDGOM OF THE NETHERLANDS,

THE REPUBLIC OF AUSTRIA,

THE PORTUGUESE REPUBLIC,

THE REPUBLIC OF FINLAND,

THE KINDGOM OF SWEDEN,

THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND

Contracting Parties to the Treaty establishing the European Community, the Treaty establishing the European Coal and
Steel Community and the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community,

hereinafter referred to as the ‘Member States’, and

THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY, THE EUROPEAN COAL AND STEEL COMMUNITY AND THE EUROPEAN ATOMIC
ENERGY COMMUNITY,

hereinafter referred to as ‘the Community’,

of the one part, and

THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA

of the other part,

Having regard to the accession of the Republic of Austria, the Republic of Finland and the Kingdom of Sweden to the
European Union and thereby to the Community on 1 January 1995,

HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS:

Article 1

The Republic of Austria, the Republic of Finland and the Kingdom of Sweden shall be Parties to the
Partnership and Cooperation Agreement, establishing a partnership between the European Communities
and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Moldova, of the other part, signed in Brussels
on 28 November 1994 (hereinafter ‘the Agreement’), and shall respectively adopt and take note, in the
same manner as other Member States of the Community, of the texts of the Agreement, as well as of the
Joint Declarations, Declarations and Exchanges of Letters annexed to the Final Act signed on the same date.

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Article 2

The texts of the Agreement, the Final Act and all documents annexed thereto are drawn up in the Finnish
and Swedish languages. They are annexed to the Protocol (1) and are equally authentic with the texts in the
other languages in which the Agreement, the Final Act and the documents annexed thereto are drawn up.

Article 3

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

The Protocol will be approved by the Parties in accordance with their own procedures.

This Protocol shall enter into force on the first day of the second month following the day on which the
Parties notify each other of the completion of the procedures referred to in the first paragraph.

Article 4

Hecho en Bruselas, el quince de mayo de mil novecientos noventa y siete.

Udfærdiget i Bruxelles den femtende maj nitten hundrede og syvoghalvfems.

Geschehen zu Brüssel am fünfzehnten Mai neunzehnhundertsiebenundneunzig.

Έγινε στις Βρυξέλλες, στις δεκαπέντε Μαΐου χίλια εννιακόσια ενενήντα επτά.

Done at Brussels on the fifteenth day of May in the year one thousand nine hundred and ninety-seven.

Fait à Bruxelles,

le quinze mai mil neuf cent quatre-vingt-dix-sept.

Fatto a Bruxelles, addì quindici maggio millenovecentonovantasette.

Gedaan te Brussel, de vĳftiende mei negentienhonderdzevenennegentig.

Feito em Bruxelas, em quinze de Maio de mil novecentos e noventa e sete.

Tehty Brysselissä viidentenätoista päivänä toukokuuta vuonna tuhatyhdeksänsataayhdeksänkymmentäseit-
semän.

Som skedde i Bryssel den femtonde maj nittonhundranittiosju.

Întocmit la Bruxelles,

la cincisprezece mai o mie nouă sute nouăzeci si şapte.

(1) OJ L 181, 24.6.1998, p. 3.

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Pour le Royaume de Belgique

Voor het Koninkrĳk België

Für das Königreich Belgien

Cette signature engage également la Communauté française, la Communauté flamande, la Communauté
germanophone,

la Région flamande et la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale.

la Région wallonne,

Deze handtekening verbindt eveneens de Vlaamse Gemeenschap, de Franstalige Gemeenschap, de Duitsta-
lige Gemeenschap, het Vlaamse Gewest, het Waalse Gewest en het Brusselse Hoofdstedelĳke Gewest.

Diese Unterschrift bindet zugleich die Deutschsprachige Gemeinschaft, die Flämische Gemeinschaft, die
Französische Gemeinschaft, die Wallonische Region, die Flämische Region und die Region Brüssel-Haupt-
stadt.

På Kongeriget Danmarks vegne

Für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland

Για την Ελληνική ∆ηµοκρατία

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Por el Reino de España

Pour la République française

Thar ceann na hÉireann
For Ireland

Per la Repubblica italiana

Pour le Grand-Duché de Luxembourg

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Voor het Koninkrĳk der Nederlanden

Für die Republik Österreich

Pela República Portuguesa

Suomen tasavallan puolesta
För Republiken Finland

För Konungariket Sverige

For the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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Por las Comunidades Europeas

For De Europæiske Fællesskaber

Für die Europäischen Gemeinschaften

Για τις Ευρωπαϊκές Κοινότητες

For the European Communities

Pour les Communautés européennes

Per le Comunità europee

Voor de Europese Gemeenschappen

Pelas Comunidades Europeias

Euroopan yhteisöjen puolesta

För Europeiska gemenskaperna

Pentru Republica Moldova