Protocol

amending the Agreement between the European Community and the Government of Georgia on certain aspects of air services

THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY,

of the one part, and

THE GOVERNMENT OF GEORGIA,

of the other part,

(hereinafter referred to as the Parties),

HAVING REGARD to the Agreements between the Republic of Bulgaria and Romania, and Georgia, signed on 19 January 1995 at Sofia and 26 March 1996 at Tbilisi, respectively,

HAVING REGARD to the Agreement between the European Community and the Government of Georgia on certain aspects of air services, signed in Brussels on 3 May 2006 (hereinafter referred to as the horizontal agreement),

CONSIDERING the accession of the Republic of Bulgaria and Romania to the European Union and therefore to the Community on 1 January 2007,

HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS:

Article 1

The following indents shall be inserted in Annex I, point (a) of the horizontal agreement after the entry concerning Austria and the Netherlands, respectively:

- "- Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Bulgaria and the Government of the Republic of Georgia concerning air services, done at Sofia on 19 January 1995, hereinafter referred to as the "Georgia-Bulgaria Agreement" in Annex II;";

- "- Agreement between the Government of Romania and the Government of Georgia concerning air services, done at Tbilisi on 26 March 1996, hereinafter referred to as the "Georgia-Romania Agreement" in Annex II;".

Article 2

The following indents shall be inserted in Annex II to the horizontal agreement after the entries concerning the "Georgia-Belgium Agreement" and the "Georgia-Poland Agreement", respectively:

(a) at point (a) "Designation by a Member State":

- "- Article 3, paragraph 5, of the Georgia-Bulgaria Agreement;";

- "- Article 3 of the Georgia-Romania Agreement;";

(b) at point (b) "Refusal, revocation, suspension or limitation of authorisations or permissions":

- "- Article 4, paragraph 1(a), of the Georgia-Bulgaria Agreement;";

- "- Article 4, paragraph 1(a), of the Georgia-Romania Agreement;";

(c) at point (d) "Taxation of aviation fuel":

- "- Article 5 of the Georgia-Bulgaria Agreement;";

- "- Article 9 of the Georgia-Romania Agreement;";

(d) at point (e) "Tariffs for carriage within the European Community":

- "- Article 6 of the Georgia-Bulgaria Agreement;";

- "- Article 8 of the Georgia-Romania Agreement;".

Article 3

This Protocol shall enter into force when the Parties have notified each other in writing that their respective internal procedures necessary for its entry into force have been completed.

Article 4

This Protocol shall be drawn up in the Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish and Georgian languages, each of these texts being equally authentic.

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