Article 1 
The Protocol to the Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, of the other part, to take account of the accession of the Republic of Croatia to the European Union is hereby approved on behalf of the Union and its Member States ( *1 ) .
Article 2 
The President of the Council is hereby authorised to designate the person(s) empowered to deposit, on behalf of the Union and its Member States, the instruments of approval provided for in Article 12(2) of the Protocol.
Article 3 
This Decision shall enter into force on the day of its adoption.