Agreement

amending the Protocol to the Europe Agreement establishing an association between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Czech Republic, of the other part, on conformity assessment and acceptance of industrial products (PECA)

THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY AND THE CZECH REPUBLIC, hereinafter referred to as "the Parties",

WHEREAS on 26 February 2001 the Parties concluded a Protocol to the Europe Agreement establishing an Association between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Czech Republic, of the other part, on conformity assessment and acceptance of industrial products (PECA)(1) hereinafter referred to as "the Protocol";

WHEREAS the Protocol in Article 8 restricted the application of the Protocol to industrial products that originate in the Parties according to non-preferential rules of origin;

CONSIDERING that in order to improve trade between the Parties, to simplify the operation of the Protocol, and to improve alignment with the position that will apply after accession of the Czech Republic to the European Union, the restriction in Article 8 of the Protocol should be deleted by way of an Amendment to the Protocol,

HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS:

Article 1

Amendment to the Protocol

The Protocol is amended as follows:

Article 8 shall be replaced by the following:

"Article 8

Origin

The provisions of this Protocol shall apply to industrial products irrespective of their origin."

Article 2

Entry into force

This Agreement shall enter into force on the first day of the second month following the date on which the Parties have exchanged diplomatic notes confirming the completion of their respective procedures for adoption of this Agreement.

This Agreement is drawn up in two originals in Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish and Czech languages, each text being equally authentic.

Hecho en Bruselas, el veintitrés de julio de dos mil tres./Udfærdiget i Bruxelles, den treogtyvende juli to tusind og tre./Geschehen zu Brüssel am dreiundzwanzigsten Juli zweitausendunddrei./Έγινε στις Βρυξέλλες, στις είκοσι τρεις Ιουλίου δύο χιλιάδες τρία./Done at Brussels on the twenty-third day of July in the year two thousand and three./Fait à Bruxelles, le vingt-trois juillet deux mille trois./Fatto a Bruxelles, addì ventitre luglio duemilatre./Gedaan te Brussel, de drieëntwintigste juli tweeduizenddrie./Feito em Bruxelas, em vinte e três de Julho de dois mil e três./Tehty Brysselissä kahdentenakymmenentenäkolmantena päivänä heinäkuuta vuonna kaksituhattakolme./Som skedde i Byssel den tjugotredje juli tjugohundratre./Dáno v Bruselu dne dvacátého tretího cervence roku dvoutisícího tretího.

Por la Comunidad Europea/For Det Europæiske Fællesskab/Für die Europäische Gemeinschaft/Για την Ευρωπαϊκή Κοινότητα/For the European Community/Pour la Communauté européenne/Per la Comunità europea/Voor de Europese Gemeenschap/Pela Comunidade Europeia/Euroopan yhteisön puolesta/På Europeiska gemenskapens vägnar

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za Ceskou republiku

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(1) OJ L 135, 17.5.2001, p. 3.