THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF ESTONIA,
Arnold RÜÜTEL
President
Kristiina OJULAND
Minister for Foreign Affairs
THE PRESIDENT OF THE HELLENIC REPUBLIC,
Konstantinos SIMITIS
Prime Minister
Giorgos PAPANDREOU
Minister for Foreign Affairs
Tassos GIANNITSIS
Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs
HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF SPAIN,
José Maria AZNAR LÓPEZ
President of the Government
Ana PALACIO VALLELERSUNDI
Minister for Foreign Affairs
THE PRESIDENT OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC,
Jean-Pierre RAFFARIN
Prime Minister
Dominique GALOUZEAU DE VILLEPIN
Minister for Foreign Affairs
Noëlle LENOIR
Minister attached to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, with responsibility for European Affairs
THE PRESIDENT OF IRELAND,
Bertie AHERN
Taoiseach
Brian COWEN
Minister for Foreign Affairs
THE PRESIDENT OF THE ITALIAN REPUBLIC,
Silvio BERLUSCONI
Prime Minister
Franco FRATTINI
Minister for Foreign Affairs
THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF CYPRUS,
Tassos PAPADOPOULOS
President
George IACOVOU
Minister for Foreign Affairs
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THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF LATVIA,
Vaira VI¯K¸E –FREIBERGA
President
Einars REPŠE
Prime Minister
Sandra KALNIETE
Minister for Foreign Affairs
Andris K¸ESTERIS
Chief Negotiator for the Accession of the Republic of Latvia to the European Union, Undersecretary of State of the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA,
Algirdas Mykolas BRAZAUSKAS
Prime Minister
Antanas VALIONIS
Minister for Foreign Affairs
HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE GRAND DUKE OF LUXEMBOURG,
Jean-Claude JUNCKER
Prime Minister, Ministre d'Etat
Lydie POLFER
Minister for Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade
THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF HUNGARY,
Dr. Péter MEDGYESSY
Prime Minister
László KOVÁCS
Minister for Foreign Affairs
Dr. Endre JUHÁSZ
Ambassador of the Republic of Hungary to the European Union, Chief Negotiator for the Accession of the Republic
of Hungary to the European Union
THE PRESIDENT OF MALTA,
The Hon Edward FENECH ADAMI
Prime Minister
The Hon Joe BORG
Minister for Foreign Affairs
Richard CACHIA CARUANA
Head of the Delegation entrusted with the negotiations
HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF THE NETHERLANDS,
Jan Pieter BALKENENDE
Prime Minister
Jakob Gijsbert de HOOP SCHEFFER
Minister for Foreign Affairs
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THE FEDERAL PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF AUSTRIA,
Dr. Wolfgang SCHÜSSEL
Federal Chancellor
Dr. Benita FERRERO-WALDNER
Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs
THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF POLAND,
Leszek MILLER
Prime Minister
Włodzimierz CIMOSZEWICZ
Minister for Foreign Affairs
Dr. Danuta HÜBNER
Secretary of State of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
THE PRESIDENT OF THE PORTUGUESE REPUBLIC,
José Manuel DURÃO BARROSO
Prime Minister
António MARTINS DA CRUZ
Minister for Foreign Affairs
THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SLOVENIA,
Dr. Janez DRNOVŠEK
President
Anton ROP
Prime Minister
Dr. Dimitrij RUPEL
Minister of Foreign Affairs
THE PRESIDENT OF THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC,
Rudolf SCHUSTER
President
Mikuláš DZURINDA
Prime Minister
Eduard KUKAN
Minister for Foreign Affairs
Ján FIGEL’
Chief Negotiator for the Accession of the Slovak Republic to the European Union
THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF FINLAND,
Paavo LIPPONEN
Prime Minister
Jari VILÉN
Minister of Foreign Trade
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THE GOVERNMENT OF THE KINGDOM OF SWEDEN,
Göran PERSSON
Prime Minister
Anna LINDH
Minister for Foreign Affairs
HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND,
The Rt. Hon Tony BLAIR
Prime Minister
The Rt. Hon Jack STRAW
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
WHO, having exchanged their full powers found in good and due form,
HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS:
Article 1
1.
The Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the
Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of
Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta,
the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia and the
Slovak Republic hereby become members of the European
Union and Parties to the Treaties on which the Union is
founded as amended or supplemented.
2.
The conditions of admission and the adjustments to the
Treaties on which the Union is founded, entailed by such
admission, are set out in the Act annexed to this Treaty. The
provisions of that Act shall form an integral part of this Treaty.
3.
The provisions concerning the rights and obligations of
the Member States and the powers and jurisdiction of the
institutions of the Union as set out in the Treaties referred to
in paragraph 1 shall apply in respect of this Treaty.
Article 2
1.
This Treaty shall be ratified by the High Contracting
Parties in accordance with their respective constitutional
requirements.
The
instruments of ratification
shall be
deposited with the Government of the Italian Republic by 30
April 2004 at the latest.
2.
This Treaty shall enter into force on 1 May 2004
provided that all the instruments of ratification have been
deposited before that date.
If, however, the States referred to in Article 1(1) have not all
deposited their instruments of ratification in due time, the
Treaty shall enter into force for those States which have
deposited their instruments. In this case, the Council of the
European Union, acting unanimously, shall decide immediately
upon such adjustments as have become indispensable to Article
3 of this Treaty, to Articles 1, 6(6), 11 to 15, 18, 19, 25, 26,
29 to 31, 33 to 35, 46 to 49, 58 and 61 of the Act of
Accession, to Annexes II to XV and their Appendices to that
Act and to Protocols 1 to 10 annexed thereto; acting unani-
mously, it may also declare that those provisions of the afore-
mentioned Act, including its Annexes, Appendices and
Protocols, which refer expressly to a State which has not
deposited its instrument of ratification have lapsed, or it may
adjust them.
3.
Notwithstanding paragraph 2, the institutions of the
Union may adopt before accession the measures referred to
in
Articles
6(2)
second
subparagraph,
6(6)
second
subparagraph, 6(7) second and third subparagraphs, 6(8)
second and third subparagraphs, 6(9) third subparagraph, 21,
23, 28(1), 32(5), 33(1), 33(4), 33(5), 38, 39, 41, 42 and 55 to
57 of the Act of Accession, Annexes III to XIV to that Act, and
Protocol 2, Article 6 of Protocol 3, Article 2(2) of Protocol 4,
Protocol 8 and Articles 1, 2 and 4 of Protocol 10 annexed
thereto. These measures shall enter into force only subject to
and on the date of the entry into force of this Treaty.
Article 3
This Treaty, drawn up in a single original in the Czech, Danish,
Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek,
Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish,
Portuguese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish languages,
the texts in each of these languages being equally authentic,
shall be deposited in the archives of the Government of the
Italian Republic, which will remit a certified copy to each of
the Governments of the other Signatory States.
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