The European Communities (Definition of Treaties) (Economic Partnership, Political Coordination and Cooperation Agreement between the European Community and its Member States and the United Mexican States) Order 1999

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

The Order declares the Economic Partnership, Political Coordination and Cooperation Agreement between the European Community and its Member States and the United Mexican States, signed on 8th December 1997, to be a Community Treaty as defined in section 1(2) of the European Communities Act 1972. The object of the Agreement is to strengthen existing relations between the European Community and its Member States and the United Mexican States. To this end, the Agreement shall institutionalise political dialogue, strengthen commercial and economic relations by means of the liberalisation of trade in conformity with the rules of the World Trade Organisation and shall reinforce and broaden cooperation. 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 provide for the implementation of treaties so specified.