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Council Decision of 8 November 2007 concerning the accession of the Republic of Bulgaria and of Romania to the Convention on the Law applicable to Contractual Obligations, opened for signature in Rome on 19 June 1980 (2007/856/EC)

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Article 1U.K.

Article 2(a) of the First Protocol of 1988 on the interpretation by the Court of Justice of the European Communities of the Convention of 1980 is hereby amended as follows:

(a)

between the second and third indents, the following indent shall be inserted:

  • in Bulgaria:

    Върховен касационен съд et Върховен административен съд,;

(b)

between the 20th and 21st indents, the following indent shall be inserted:

  • in Romania:

    Înalta Curte de Casație și Justiție,.

Article 2U.K.

1.The Convention of 1980 and the First and Second Protocols of 1988, together with the Conventions of 1984, 1992 and 1996, as amended by this Decision, shall enter into force between the Republic of Bulgaria, Romania and the other Member States on the 15 January 2008.

2.The Convention of 2005 shall enter into force between the Republic of Bulgaria, Romania and the Member States for which it entered into force before the 15 January 2008 on that date.

3.The Convention of 2005 shall enter into force between the Republic of Bulgaria, Romania and the Member States for which it has not yet entered into force on the date laid down in Article 5(2) of that Convention.

Article 3U.K.

The texts of the Convention of 1980 and the First and Second Protocols of 1988, together with the Conventions of 1984, 1992, 1996 and 2005, drawn up in the Bulgarian and Romanian languages and annexed to this Decision, shall be authentic under the same conditions as the other language versions of these Conventions and Protocols.

A single original of these texts in the Bulgarian and Romanian languages shall be deposited in the archives of the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union with the other authentic language versions.

The Secretary-General shall transmit to the Governments of the Republic of Bulgaria and Romania a certified copy of the Conventions and Protocols referred to in the first subparagraph 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.

Article 4U.K.

This Decision shall take effect on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

Done at Brussels, 8 November 2007.

For the Council

The President

R. Pereira

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