EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order declares the agreement between the European Economic Community, Member States of the European Economic Community, and Zimbabwe, which provides for the accession of the Republic of Zimbabwe to the Second ACP-EEC Convention of Lomé (Cmnd. 7895), and related agreements, to be Community Treaties as defined in section 1(2) of the European Communities Act 1972. The principal effect of declaring the Agreements to be Community Treaties as so defined is to bring into play, in relation to them, the provisions of section 2 of the European Communities Act 1972 which provides for the implementation of treaties so specified.