Article 51
Adaptations to the rules of the Committees established by the
original Treaties and to their rules of procedure, necessitated by
the accession, shall be made as soon as possible after accession.
Article 52
1.
The terms of office of the new members of the
Committees, groups and other bodies created by the Treaties
and the legislator listed in Annex XVI shall expire at the same
time as those of the members in office at the time of accession.
2.
The terms of office of the new members of the
Committees and groups created by the Commission listed in
Annex XVII shall expire at the same time as those of the
members in office at the time of accession.
3.
Upon accession, the membership of the Committees
listed in Annex XVIII shall be completely renewed.
TITLE II
APPLICABILITY OF THE ACTS OF THE INSTITUTIONS
Article 53
Upon accession, the new Member States shall be considered as
being addressees of directives and decisions within the meaning
of Article 249 of the EC Treaty and of Article 161 of the
Euratom Treaty, provided that those directives and decisions
have been addressed to all the present Member States. Except
with regard to directives and decisions which enter into force
pursuant to Article 254(1) and 254(2) of the EC Treaty, the
new Member States shall be considered as having received
notification of such directives and decisions upon accession.
Article 54
The new Member States shall put into effect the measures
necessary for them to comply, from the date of accession,
with the provisions of directives and decisions within the
meaning of Article 249 of the EC Treaty and of Article 161
of the Euratom Treaty, unless another time-limit is provided for
in the Annexes referred to in Article 24 or in any other
provisions of this Act or its Annexes.
Article 55
At the duly substantiated request of one of the new Member
States, the Council, acting unanimously on a proposal from the
Commission, may, before 1 May 2004, take measures
consisting of temporary derogations from acts of the insti-
tutions adopted between 1 November 2002 and the date of
signature of the Treaty of Accession.
Article 56
Unless otherwise stipulated, the Council, acting by a qualified
majority on a proposal from the Commission, shall adopt the
necessary measures to implement the provisions contained in
Annexes II, III and IV referred to in Articles 20, 21 and 22 of
this Act.
Article 57
1.
Where acts of the institutions prior to accession require
adaptation by reason of accession, and the necessary adap-
tations have not been provided for in this Act or its
Annexes, those adaptations shall be made in accordance with
the procedure laid down by paragraph 2. Those adaptations
shall enter into force as from accession.
2.
The Council, acting by a qualified majority on a proposal
from the Commission, or the Commission, according to which
of these two institutions adopted the original acts, shall to this
end draw up the necessary texts.
Article 58
The texts of the acts of the institutions, and of the European
Central Bank, adopted before accession and drawn up by the
Council, the Commission or the European Central Bank in the
Czech, Estonian, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese,
Polish, Slovak and Slovenian languages shall, from the date
of accession, be authentic under the same conditions as the
texts drawn up in the present eleven languages. They shall be
published in the Official Journal of the European Union if the
texts in the present languages were so published.
Article 59
Provisions laid down by law, regulation or administrative
action designed to ensure the protection of the health of
workers and the general public in the territory of the new
Member States against the dangers arising from ionising
radiations shall, in accordance with Article 33 of the
Euratom Treaty, be communicated by those States to the
Commission within three months of accession.
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TITLE III
FINAL PROVISIONS
Article 60
Annexes I to XVIII, the Appendices thereto and Protocols Nos
1 to 10 attached to this Act shall form an integral part thereof.
Article 61
The Government of the Italian Republic shall remit to the
Governments of the new Member States a certified copy of
the Treaty on European Union, the Treaty establishing the
European Community and of the Treaty establishing the
European Atomic Energy Community, and the Treaties
amending or supplementing them, including the Treaty
concerning the accession of the Kingdom of Denmark,
Ireland and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland to the European Economic Community and
to the European Atomic Energy Community, the Treaty
concerning the accession of the Hellenic Republic to the
European Economic Community and the European Atomic
Energy Community, the Treaty concerning the accession of
the Kingdom of Spain and the Portuguese Republic to the
European Economic Community and the European Atomic
Energy Community, and the Treaty concerning the accession
of the Republic of Austria, the Republic of Finland and the
Kingdom of Sweden to the European Union in the Danish,
Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Irish, Italian,
Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish languages.
The texts of those Treaties, drawn up in the Czech, Estonian,
Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Slovak and
Slovenian languages, shall be annexed to this Act. Those
texts shall be authentic under the same conditions as the
texts of the Treaties referred to in the first paragraph, drawn
up in the present languages.
Article 62
A certified copy of the international agreements deposited in
the archives of the General Secretariat of the Council of the
European Union shall be remitted to the Governments of the
new Member States by the Secretary-General.
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