Protocol

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

THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY,

of the one part, and

THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE,

of the other part,

(hereinafter referred to as the Parties),

HAVING REGARD to the Agreements between the Republic of Bulgaria and Romania, and the Government of the Republic of Singapore, signed on 28 November 1969 at Singapore and on 11 January 1978 at Singapore, respectively,

HAVING REGARD to the Agreement between the European Community and the Government of the Republic of Singapore on certain aspects of air services, signed in Luxembourg on 9 June 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 Belgium and Portugal, respectively:

- "- Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Singapore and the Government of the People's Republic of Bulgaria for air services between and beyond their respective territories, done at Singapore on 28 November 1969 (hereinafter referred to as the Singapore-Bulgaria Agreement);";

- "- Agreement between the Government of the Socialist Republic of Romania and the Government of the Republic of Singapore concerning air services, done at Singapore on 11 January 1978 (hereinafter referred to as the Singapore-Romania Agreement);".

Article 2

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

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

- "- Article 3 of the Singapore-Bulgaria Agreement;";

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

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

- "- Article 3 of the Singapore-Bulgaria Agreement;";

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

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

- "- Article 8 of the Singapore-Bulgaria Agreement;";

- "- Article 9 of the Singapore-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 and Swedish languages. In case of any dispute the English text shall prevail over the other language texts.

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