The European Communities (Definition of Treaties) (Partnership and Co-operation Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States and the Kyrgyz Republic) Order 1996

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order declares the Partnership and Co-operation Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States and the Kyrgyz Republic, signed on 9th February 1995, to be a Community Treaty as defined in section 1(2) of the European Communities Act 1972. The Agreement establishes a Partnership with the objectives of providing an appropriate framework for political dialogue, promoting trade, investment and economic relations, providing a basis for legislative, economic, social, financial, civil, scientific, technological and cultural co-operation, and supporting the Kyrgyz Republic’s efforts to consolidate its democracy, develop its economy and complete the transition into a market economy. 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.