2007/611/EC: Council Decision of 23 July 2007 on the signing and provisional application of a Second Additional Protocol to the Agreement establishing an association between the European Community and its Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Chile, of the other part, to take account of the accession of the Republic of Bulgaria and Romania to the European Union

The Republic of Bulgaria and Romania hereby become Contracting Parties to the Agreement with effect from 1 January 2007.

Articles 17(4) and 18(2) of Annex III to the Agreement are hereby amended in accordance with the provisions of Annex I to this Protocol.

Appendix IV of Annex III to the Agreement shall be replaced by Annex II to this Protocol.

1 The provisions of the Agreement shall be applied to goods exported from either Chile to one of the new Member States or from one of the new Member States to Chile, which comply with the provisions of Annex III to the Agreement and which on the date of accession are either en route or in temporary storage, in a customs warehouse or in a free zone in Chile or in such new Member State.

2 Preferential treatment shall be granted in such cases, subject to the submission to the customs authorities of the importing country, within four months of the date of accession, of a proof of origin issued retrospectively by the customs authorities or competent governmental authority of the exporting country.

Part A of Annex VII to the Agreement shall be replaced by the provisions of Annex III to this Protocol.

Part A of Annex VIII to the Agreement shall be replaced by the provisions of Annex IV to this Protocol.

Part A of Annex IX to the Agreement shall be replaced by the information provided in Annex V to this Protocol.

Part A of Annex X to the Agreement shall be replaced by the provisions of Annex VI to this Protocol.

1 The entities of the new Member States listed in Annex VII to this Protocol shall be added to the relevant sections of Annex XI to the Agreement.

2 The list of publication means of the new Member States listed in Annex VIII to this Protocol shall be added to Appendix 2 of Annex XIII to the Agreement.

1 This Protocol shall be concluded by the Community, by the Council of the European Union on behalf of the Member States and by Chile, in accordance with their respective internal procedures.

2 This Protocol shall enter into force on the first day of the first month following that in which all the Contracting Parties have notified each other of the completion of the procedures necessary for this purpose.

3 Notwithstanding paragraph 2, the Community and Chile agree to apply Articles 2, 3, 4 and 9 of this Protocol with effect from 1 January 2007.

4 Notifications shall be sent to the Secretary-General of the Council of the European Union, who shall be the depository of this Protocol.

5 Where a provision of this Protocol is applied by the Contracting Parties pending its entry into force, any reference in such a provision to the date of entry into force of this Protocol shall be understood to refer to the date from which the Parties agree to apply that provision, in accordance with paragraph 3.

This Protocol is drawn up in duplicate in the Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, German, Greek, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish languages, each of these texts being equally authentic. The Community shall communicate within three months from the signature of this Protocol to Chile the Bulgarian and Romanian language versions of the Agreement. Subject to the entry into force of this Protocol, the new language versions shall become authentic under the same conditions as those drawn up in the present languages of this Protocol.

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