The European Communities (Definition of Treaties) (Inter-regional Framework Co-operation Agreement between the European Community and its Member States and the Southern Common Market and its Party States) Order 1997

Statutory Instruments

1997 No. 2603

EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

The European Communities (Definition of Treaties) (Inter-regional Framework Co-operation Agreement between the European Community and its Member States and the Southern Common Market and its Party States) Order 1997

Made

30th October 1997

Coming into force in accordance with Article 1

At the Court at 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) (Inter-regional Framework Co-operation Agreement between the European Community and its Member States and the Southern Common Market and its Party States) 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. U.K.

Commencement Information

I1 Art. 1 comes into force in accordance with art. 1

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. U.K.

Commencement Information

I2 Art. 2 comes into force in accordance with art. 1

N. H. Nicholls

Clerk of the Privy Council

SCHEDULE U.K.

Commencement Information

I3 Sch. comes into force in accordance with art. 1

Inter-regional Framework Co-operation Agreement between the European Community and its Member States, of the one part, and the Southern Common Market and its Party States, of the other part(2).

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order declares the Inter-regional Framework Co-operation Agreement between the European Community and its Member States and the Southern Common Market and its Party States, done at Madrid on 15th December 1995, 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 and to prepare the conditions enabling an Inter-regional Association to be created. To those ends, the Agreement covers trade and economic matters, co-operation regarding integration and other fields of mutual interest, including energy, transport, science and technology, telecommunications, the environment, and education and training. 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 provides 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 3342.