2005/35/EC: Council Decision of 7 December 2004 on the signing of the Agreement between the European Community and the Principality of Monaco providing for measures equivalent to those laid down in Council Directive 2003/48/EC on taxation of savings income in the form of interest payments and the approval and signing of the accompanying Memorandum of Understanding

Subject to the adoption at a later date of a Decision on the conclusion of the Agreement between the European Community and the Principality of Monaco providing for measures equivalent to those laid down in Council Directive 2003/48/EC ( 1 ) on taxation of savings income in the form of interest payments, the President of the Council is hereby authorised to designate the person(s) empowered to sign that Agreement and the accompanying Memorandum of Understanding as well as the Letters which have to be exchanged in accordance with Article 21(2) of the Agreement and the Memorandum of Understanding, in order to bind the Community. The Memorandum of Understanding shall be approved by the Council. The texts of the Agreement and of the Memorandum of Understanding are attached to this Decision.

This Decision shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Union .