Protocol

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

THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY,

of the one part, and

THE REPUBLIC OF LEBANON,

of the other part,

(hereinafter referred to as the Parties),

HAVING REGARD to the Agreements between the Republic of Bulgaria and Romania, and the Republic of Lebanon, signed on 17 February 1967 in Beirut and on 25 February 1967 in Beirut, respectively,

HAVING REGARD to the Agreement between the European Community and the Republic of Lebanon on certain aspects of air services, signed in Beirut on 7 July 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 Poland, respectively:

- "- Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Bulgaria and the Government of the Republic of Lebanon concerning air services, done at Beirut on 17 February 1967 (hereinafter referred to as the Lebanon-Bulgaria Agreement);";

- "- Agreement between the Government of the Socialist Republic of Romania and the Government of the Republic of Lebanon concerning air services, done at Beirut on 25 February 1967 (hereinafter referred to as the Lebanon-Romania Agreement);".

Article 2

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

- "- Article 8 of the Lebanon-Romania Agreement;";

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

- "- Article 10 of the Lebanon-Bulgaria Agreement;";

- "- Article 9 of the Lebanon-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 Arabic languages, each of these texts being equally authentic.

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