95/312/EC: Council Decision of 24 July 1995 on the conclusion of an Additional Protocol to the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Kingdom of Norway consequent on the accession of the Republic of Austria, the Republic of Finland and the Kingdom of Sweden to the European Union

The Additional Protocol to the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Kingdom of Norway consequent on the accession of the Republic of Austria, the Republic of Finland and the Kingdom of Sweden to the European Union is hereby approved on behalf of the Community. The text of the Additional Protocol is attached to this Decision.

The President of the Council is hereby authorized to designate the person empowered to sign the Additional Protocol in order to bind the Community.

The text of the Agreement, the Annexes and Protocols, which form an integral part thereof, the Final Act and the declarations annexed thereto shall be drawn up in the Finnish and Swedish languages and those texts shall be authentic in the same way as the original texts. The Joint Committee shall approve the Finnish and Swedish texts.

The special provisions applicable to imports into the Community of certain fishery products originating in Norway are laid down in Annex I to this Protocol.

The provisions of Protocol 3 concerning the definition of the concept of ‘originating products’ and methods of administrative cooperation shall be amended in accordance with Annex II to this Protocol.

The Annexes to this Protocol form an integral part thereof. This Protocol forms an integral part of the Agreement.

This Protocol shall be approved by the Contracting Parties in accordance with their own procedures. It shall enter into force on 1 July 1995, provided that the Contracting Parties have notified each other before that date that the procedures necessary to this end have been completed. After that date, the Protocol shall enter into force on the first day of the second month following such notification.

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