1996 No. 267

EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

The European Communities (Definition of Treaties) (Statute of the European Schools) Order 1996

Made

Coming into force

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 14th day of February 1996

Present,

The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Whereas a draft of this Order has been laid before Parliament in accordance with section 1 of the European Communities Act 19721 and has been approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament:

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, in pursuance of the powers conferred by section 1(3) of the European Communities Act 1972, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:—

1

This Order may be cited as the European Communities (Definition of Treaties) (Statute of the European Schools) Order 1996 and shall come into force forthwith.

2

The treaty specified in the Schedule to this Order is to be regarded as a Community Treaty as defined in section 1(2) of the European Communities Act 1972.

N H NichollsClerk of the Privy Council

SCHEDULE

Article 2

The convention defining the Statute of the European Schools signed at Luxembourg on 21st June 1994 and made between the Members of the European Communities and the European Communities and entering into force on a date to be specified in the London, Edinburgh and Belfast Gazettes2.

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order declares the convention defining the Statute of the European Schools signed at Luxembourg on 21st June 1994 and made between the Members of the European Communities and the European Communities to be a Community Treaty as defined in section 1(2) of the European Communities Act 1972. The convention cancels and replaces the original convention defining the Statute of the European School of 12th April 1957 and the Protocol thereto of 13th April 1962. The principal effect of declaring the convention 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.