The European Communities (Definition of Treaties) (Framework Cooperation Agreement between the European Community and its Member States and the Republic of Chile) Order 1997

Statutory Instruments

1997 No. 2576

EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

The European Communities (Definition of Treaties) (Framework Cooperation Agreement between the European Community and its Member States and the Republic of Chile) Order 1997

Made

30th October 1997

Coming into force in accordance with Article 1

At the Court in Buckingham Palace, the 30th day of October 1997

Present,

The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Whereas a draft of this Order has been laid before Parliament in accordance with section 1 of the European Communities Act 1972(1) and has been approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament:

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred on Her by section 1(3) of the European Communities Act 1972 or otherwise in Her Majesty vested, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:

1.  This Order may be cited as the European Communities (Definition of Treaties) (Framework Cooperation Agreement between the European Community and its Member States and the Republic of Chile) Order 1997. It shall come into operation in respect of the treaty specified in the Schedule to this Order on the date on which the Treaty comes into force for the United Kingdom. This date will be notified in the London, Edinburgh and Belfast Gazettes.

2.  The treaty specified in the Schedule to this Order is to be regarded as a Community Treaty as defined in section 1(2) of the European Communities Act 1972.

N. H. Nicholls

Clerk of the Privy Council

SCHEDULE

Framework Cooperation Agreement between the European Community and its Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Chile, of the other part(2).

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order declares the Framework Co-operation Agreement between the European Community and its Member States and the Republic of Chile, done at Florence on 21 June 1996, to be a Community Treaty as defined in section 1(2) of the European Communities Act 1972. The objectives of the Agreement are to strengthen existing relations between the parties on the basis of reciprocity and mutual interest, paving the way for the progressive and reciprocal liberalisation of trade, leading ultimately to the establishment of a political and economic association between the EU and Chile. To those ends, the Agreement covers political dialogue, trade and economic matters, and co-operation in various other matters of mutual interest, with the broad objective of forging closer relations between the parties and their respective institutions. The principal effect of declaring this Agreement to be a Community Treaty as so defined is to bring into play in relation to it the provisions of section 2 of the European Communities Act 1972 which provide for the implementation of treaties so specified.

(1)

1972 c. 68: section 1(2) was amended by the European Union (Accessions) Act 1994 c. 38.

(2)

Cm 3511.