Explanatory Note
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order declares the 1986 Protocols to the European Coal and Steel Community Agreements with Switzerland and Austria of 1956 and 1957 on the introduction of through international railway tariffs for the carriage of coal and steel to be Community Treaties as defined in section 1(2) of the European Communities Act 1972. The Protocols enable Spain and Portugal to accede to the Agreements in accordance with Article 4(2) of the Act concerning the Conditions of Accession of Spain and Portugal to the Communities (Cm 548).
The principal effect of declaring the Protocols to be Community Treaties as so defined is to bring into play, in relation to them, the provisions of section 2 of the European Communities Act 1972 which provides for the implementation of Treaties so specified.