Article 1 
The Agreement amending for the second time the Partnership Agreement between the members of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States, of the one part, and the European Community and its Member States, of the other part, signed in Cotonou on 23 June 2000, as first amended in Luxembourg on 25 June 2005 ( 6 ) , is hereby approved on behalf of the European Union.
Article 2 
The President of the Council shall designate the person(s) empowered to proceed, on behalf of the Union, to deposit the instrument of approval as provided for in Article 93 of the Cotonou Agreement, in order to express the consent of the Union to be bound.
Article 3 
This Decision shall enter into force on the day of its adoption.