The instruments of ratification and the act of notification of the conclusion of the Convention shall be deposited with the Secretariat of the Councils of the European Communities, which shall inform the signatory States thereof.
Article 57.
1. This Convention shall enter into force on the first day of the month following the date on which the instruments of ratification by the Member States and by at least fifteen of the associated States and the act of notification of the conclusion of the Convention by the Community have been deposited.
2. An Associated State which has not ratified by the date of entry into force of the Convention as provided for in the preceding paragraph may not do so until twelve months after such entry into force unless, before the expiry of that period, it informs the Association Council of its intention to ratify the Convention at the latest within six months of that period and provided that it deposits its instruments of ratification within that period.
3. For States which have not ratified by the date of entry into force of the Convention as provided for in paragraph 1, the provisions of the Convention shall become applicable on the first day of the month following the deposit of their respective instruments of ratification.
Signatory States which ratify the Convention under the conditions set out in paragraph 2 shall recognise the validity of any measure implementing the Convention and the date on which its provisions became applicable to them. Without prejudice to any period of grace which may be granted to them by the Association Council, they shall fulfil, within six months of the deposit of their instruments of ratification, all the obligations incumbent on them under the Convention or under implementing decisions taken by the Association Council.
4. The rules of procedure of the organs of the Association shall determine whether and under what conditions representatives of signatory States which, at the date of entry into force of the Convention, have not yet ratified it, shall sit as observers on the organs of the Association. The provisions thus adopted shall have effect only until the date on which the Convention becomes applicable in respect of those States; they shall in any case cease to be applicable on the date on which, in accordance with paragraph 2 above, the State concerned can no longer ratify the Convention.
Article 58.
1. The Association Council shall be informed of any application for accession or association of a State to the Community.
2. Any application for association with the Community from a State whose economic structure and production are comparable to those of the associated States which, after examination by the Community, has been referred by the Community to the Association Council, shall be the subject of consultations there.
3. The Association Agreement between the Community and a State referred to in the preceding paragraph may provide for the accession of that State to this Convention. Such a State shall enjoy the same rights and be subject to the same obligations as the associated States. However, the agreement associating it with the Community may fix the date on which some of these rights and obligations shall become applicable to it.
Such accession shall not prejudice the benefits accruing to the associated States signatory to this Convention from the provisions on financial and technical cooperation.
Article 59.
This Convention is concluded for a period of five years from its entry into force.
Article 60.
One year before the expiry of this Convention, the Contracting Parties shall examine the arrangements which could be made for a further period.
The Association Council shall take any transitional measures necessary until the entry into force of the new Convention.
Article 61.
The Community and the Member States shall fulfil the commitments provided for in Articles 2, 5 and 11 of the Convention in respect of those associated States which, on the basis of international obligations applicable at the time of the entry into force of the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community and subjecting them to the application of a special customs procedure, consider that they are unable to grant the Community the reciprocity provided for in Article 3(2) of the Convention.
The Contracting Parties concerned shall review the situation no later than three years after the entry into force of the Convention.
Article 62.
This Convention may be denounced by the Community in respect of each Associated State and by each Associated State in respect of the Community by giving six months' notice.
Article 63.
The Protocols annexed to this Convention shall form an integral part thereof.
Article 64.
This Convention, drawn up in a single original in the Dutch, French, German and Italian languages, each of these texts being equally authentic, shall be deposited in the archives of the Secretariat of the Councils of the European Communities, which shall transmit a certified copy to the Government of each of the signatory States.
Conclusion
In witness whereof the undersigned Plenipotentiaries have hereunto affixed their signatures.
Done at Yaoundé, on the twentieth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-three.
For His Majesty the King of the Belgians,
H. Fayat
For the President of the Federal Republic of Germany,
W. Scheel
For the President of the French Republic,
R. Triboulet
For the President of the Italian Republic,
E. Colombo
For Her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess of Luxembourg,
E. Schaus
For Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands,
J. Luns
For the Council of the European Economic Community,
J. Luns
W. Hallstein
With the reservation that the Community shall not be definitively committed until the other Contracting Parties have been notified of the completion of the procedures required by the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community.
For His Majesty the Mwami of Burundi,
L. Nimubona
For the President of the Federal Republic of Cameroon,
V. Kanga
For the President of the Central African Republic,
J. Mackpayen
For the President of the Republic of Congo (Brazzaville),
V. Sathoud
For the President of the Republic of Congo (Leopoldville),
M. Lengema
For the President of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire,
L. Amon Tanoh
For the President of the Republic of Dahomey,
Aplogan
For the President of the Gabonese Republic,
A. Anguile
For the President of the Republic of Upper Volta,
M. Traore
For the President of the Malagasy Republic,
A. Ramangasoavina
For the Head of State, President of the Council of Government of the Republic of Mali,
J. Kone
For the President of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania,
M. Sidi
For the President of the Republic of Niger,
I. Zodi
For the President of the Rwandan Republic,
B. Habemenshi
For the President of the Republic of Senegal,
C. Gueye
Per il Presidente della Repubblica Somala,
A. Scego
For the President of the Republic of Chad,
M. Ngantar
For the President of the Republic of Togo
J. Agbemegnan