The European Communities (Definition of Treaties) (Europe Agreement establishing an Association between the European Communities and their Member States, and the Republic of Slovenia) Order 1998

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

The Order declares the Europe Agreement establishing an Association between the European Communities and their Member States, and the Republic of Slovenia, signed on 10 June 1996, to be a Community Treaty as defined in section 1(2) of the European Communities Act 1972. The Agreement establishes an Association with the aims of providing an appropriate framework for political dialogue, promoting the expansion of trade and harmonious economic relations, gradually developing a free trade area between the Community and Slovenia, supporting Slovenia’s efforts to develop its economy and to complete the transition into a market economy, and providing an appropriate framework for Slovenia’s gradual integration into the European Union. 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.