The European Communities (Definition of Treaties) (Europe Agreement establishing an Association between the European Communities and their Member States and the Republic of Poland) Order 1992

Statutory Instruments

1992 No. 2872

EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

The European Communities (Definition of Treaties) (Europe Agreement establishing an Association between the European Communities and their Member States and the Republic of Poland) Order 1992

Made

17th November 1992

Coming into force in accordance with Article 1

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 17th day of November 1992

Present,

The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Whereas a draft of this Order has been laid before Parliament in accordance withsection 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) (Europe Agreement establishing an Association between the European Communities and their Member States and the Republic of Poland) Order 1992. It shall come into force, in respect of the treaty specified in the Schedule to this Order, on the date on which the treaty enters 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

The Europe Agreement establishing an Association between the European Communitiesand their Member States, of the one part,and the Republic of Poland, of the other part, signed at Brussels on 16 December 1991(2).

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order declares the Europe Agreement establishing an Association between the European Communities and their Member States and the Republic of Poland to be a Community Treaty as defined in section 1(2) of the European Communities Act 1972. The Agreement establishes the Association with the aims of providing an appropriate framework for political dialogue, for promoting cultural, trade and economic relations, providing the basis for the Community’s financial and technical assistance to Poland and providing an appropriate framework for Poland’s gradual integration into the Community. 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 Communities (Amendment) Act 1986 (c. 58).

(2)

Cm. 2059.