PROTOCOL

laying down certain provisions concerning the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the State of Israel following the Accession of new Member States to the European Economic Community

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,

of the one part ,

THE HEAD OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL ,

of the other part ,

WHEREAS the Community has set itself the objective of negotiating with Israel in 1973 a new Agreement that should enter into force on 1 January 1974 as part of a global approach to the relations of the Community with the Mediterranean countries to be worked out with due regard for the matters which are of concern to those countries ;

HAVE DECIDED to lay down by mutual agreement certain transitional measures and adjustments to the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the State of Israel , signed in Luxembourg on 29 June 1970 , hereinafter called the Agreement , that are necessary following the accession to the Community of the Kingdom of Denmark , Ireland , the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ,

and to this end have designated as their plenipotentiaries :

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES :

Mr. Renaat A.J.C. VAN ELSLANDE

President of the Council of the European Communities ,

Minister of Foreign Affairs ;

Mr François-Xavier ORTOLI ,

President of the Commission of the European Communities ;

THE GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL :

Mr Abba EBAN ,

Minister of Foreign Affairs ;

WHO , having exchanged their Full Powers , found in good and due form ,

HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS :

Article 1

During 1973 Article 2 ( 1 ) and 2 and Articles 8 and 9 of the Agreement shall not be applicable to trade in products between Israel on the one hand and Denmark , Ireland and the United Kingdom on the other .

The Contracting Parties shall lay down by mutual agreement by 1 January 1974 the transitional measures and adjustments which may appear necessary following the accession of Denmark , Ireland and the United Kingdom .

Article 2

This Protocol shall form an integral part of the Agreement .

Article 3

This Protocol shall enter into force on the day following the date on which the Contracting Parties notify each other that the procedures necessary to this end have been completed .

Article 4

This Protocol is drawn up in duplicate in the Danish , Dutch , English , French , German , Italian and Hebraic languages , each of these texts being equally authentic .

In witness whereof , the undersigned plenipotentiaries have affixed their signatures below this Protocol .

Done at Brussels this thirtieth day of January in the year one thousand nine hundred and seventy-three , corresponding to the twenty-seventh day of Shvat in the year five thousand seven hundred and thirty-three of the Hebrew calendar .