The European Communities (Definition of Treaties) (International Wheat Agreement) Order 1979

Statutory Instruments

1979 No. 1446

EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

The European Communities (Definition of Treaties) (International Wheat Agreement) Order 1979

Laid before Parliament in draft

Made

14th November 1979

Coming into operation in accordance with Article 1

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 14th day of November 1979

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(3) of the European Communities Act 1972 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) (International Wheat Agreement) Order 1979. It shall come into operation in respect of each treaty specified in the Schedule to this Order on the date on which the treaty enters into force for the United Kingdom. These dates will be notified in the London, Edinburgh and Belfast Gazettes.

2.  The treaties specified in the Schedule to this Order are to be regarded as Community Treaties as defined in section 1(2) of the European Communities Act 1972.

N. E. Leigh

Clerk of the Privy Council

SCHEDULE

1.  Protocol for the Fifth Extension of the Wheat Trade Convention 1971, opened for signature at Washington on 25th April 1979 (Official Journal of the European Communities, No. L152, 20th June 1979, page 10).

2.  Protocol for the Fifth Extension of the Food Aid Convention 1971, opened for signature at Washington on 25th April 1979 (Official Journal of the European Communities, No. L152, 20th June 1979, page 13).

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order declares the 1979 Protocols for the Fifth Extension of the Wheat Trade Convention and the Food Aid Convention constituting the International Wheat Agreement 1971 (Official Journal of the European Communities, No. L152, 20th June 1979, pages 10–15) to be Community Treaties as defined in section 1(2) of the European Communities Act 1972. The International Wheat Agreement 1971 is a Community Treaty by virtue of section 1(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 and this Order ensures that the Protocols which extend its validity will also be Community Treaties.