Article 1 
The Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic shall be Parties to the Agreement on Maritime Transport between the European Community and its Member States, of the one part, and the Government of the People’s Republic of China, of the other part, signed in Brussels on 6 December 2002 (hereinafter called the Agreement).
Article 2 
The texts of the Agreement in the Czech, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Hungarian, Maltese, Polish, Slovenian and Slovak languages, which are attached to this Protocol shall become authentic under the same conditions as the other language versions drawn up in accordance with Article 14 of the Agreement.
Article 3 
This Protocol shall be approved by the Contracting Parties in accordance with their own procedures. It shall enter into force on the same day the Agreement enters into force. Should however this Protocol be approved by the Contracting Parties on a later date than the entry into force of the Agreement, then the Protocol shall enter into force on the date on which the Parties have notified each other on the accomplishment of the internal procedures for approval.
Article 4 
This Protocol is drawn up at Beijing, on this fifth day of September in the year two thousand and five, in duplicate, in the Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Slovenian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish and Chinese languages, each of these texts being equally authentic.