Article 1 
1. The Member States that have not yet done so are hereby authorised to accept the accession of Singapore to the Hague Convention of 25 October 1980 on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (‘the 1980 Hague Convention’) in the interest of the Union. 3. Each Member State shall inform the Council and the Commission of the deposit of its declaration of acceptance of the accession of Singapore and communicate to the Commission the text of the declaration within two months of its deposit.
Article 2 
Those Member States which deposited their declarations of acceptance of the accession of Singapore to the 1980 Hague Convention prior to the date of adoption of this Decision, shall make no new declarations.
Article 3 
This Decision shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union .
Article 4 
This Decision is addressed to all Member States, with the exception of the Kingdom of Belgium, 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 Italian Republic, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Malta, the Slovak Republic and the Kingdom of Sweden.