EC - Czech Republic Association Agreement (1993)
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1. The Parties shall take any general or specific measures required to fulfil their obligations under this Agreement. They shall see to it that the objectives set out in this Agreement are attained.

2. If either Party considers that the other Party has failed to fulfil an obligation under this Agreement, it may take appropriate measures. Before so doing, except in cases of special urgency, it shall supply the Association Council with all relevant information required for a thorough examination of the situation with a view to seeking a solution acceptable to the Parties.

In the selection of measures, priority must be given to those which least disturb the functioning of this Agreement. These measures shall be notified immediately to the Association Council and shall be the subject of consultations within the Association Council if the other Party so requests.

Article 118.

This Agreement shall not, until equivalent rights for individuals and economic operators have been achieved under this Agreement, affect rights assured to them through existing agreements binding one or more Member States, on the one hand, and the Czech Republic, on the other.

Article 119.

Protocols 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 and Annexes I to XVII shall form an integral part of this Agreement.

Article 120.

This Agreement is concluded for an unlimited period.

Either Party may denounce this Agreement by notifying the other Party. This Agreement shall cease to apply six months after the date of such notification.

Article 121.

This Agreement shall apply, on the one hand, to the territories in which the Treaties establishing the European Economic Community, the European Atomic Energy Community, and the European Coal and Steel Community are applied and under the conditions laid down in those Treaties and, on the other hand, to the territory of the Czech Republic.

Article 122.

This Agreement is drawn up in duplicate in the Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Portuguese and Czech languages, each of these texts being equally authentic.

Article 123.

This Agreement will be approved by the Contracting Parties in accordance with their own procedures.

This Agreement shall enter into force on the first day of the second month following the date on which the Contracting Parties notify each other that the procedures referred to in the first paragraph have been completed.

Upon its entry into force, this Agreement shall replace the Agreement between the European Economic Community, the European Atomic Energy Community and the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic on trade, economic and commercial cooperation signed in Brussels on 7 May 1990, and the Protocol between the European Coal and Steel Community and the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic initialled in Brussels on 28 June 1991, before the entry into force hereof.

Article 124.

1. In view of the fact that provisions equivalent to those of certain parts of the Agreement and thus of the Europe Agreement signed between the Community and its Member States on 16 December 1991 and the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic, in particular those relating to the movements of goods, were put into effect since 1 March 1992 by means of an Interim Agreement on trade and trade related measures between the Community and the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic signed on 16 December 1991, as amended by the Supplementary Protocols between the Community and each of the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic, the Parties agree that in such circumstances for the purposes of Title III, Articles 64, 66 and 67 of the Agreement and Protocols 1 (with the exception of its Article 3), 2, 3, 4 and 5 and 6, 'date of entry into force of the Agreement` shall mean:

- 1 March 1992 in relation to obligations taking effect on the date of entry into force of the Agreement, and

- 1 January 1992 in relation to obligations taking effect after the date of entry into force by reference to the date of entry into force.

2. In the case of entry into force of the Agreement after 1 January in any year, the provisions of Protocol 7 shall apply.

En fe de lo cual, los plenipotenciarios abajo firmantes suscriben el presente Acuerdo.

Conclusion

In witness whereof the undersigned Plenipotentiaries have signed this Agreement.

Done at Luxembourg on the fourth day of October in the year one thousand nine hundred and ninety-three.

For the Kingdom of Belgium

For the Kingdom of Denmark

For the Federal Republic of Germany

For the Hellenic Republic

For the Kingdom of Spain

For thr French Republic

For Ireland

For the Italian Republic

For the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

For the Kingdom of Netherlands

For the Portuguese Republic

For the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

For the Council and the Commission of the European Communities

For the Czech Republic

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  • Article   1 1
  • Title   I POLITICAL DIALOGUE 1
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  • Title   II GENERAL PRINCIPLES 1
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  • Article   7 1
  • Title   III FREE MOVEMENT OF GOODS 1
  • Article   8 1
  • Chapter   I Industrial Products 1
  • Article   9 1
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  • Article   12 2
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  • Chapter   II Agriculture 2
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  • Chapter   III Fisheries 2
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  • Chapter   IV Common Provisions 2
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  • Title   IV MOVEMENT OF WORKERS, ESTABLISHMENT, SUPPLY OF SERVICES 2
  • Chapter   I Movement of Workers 2
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  • Chapter   II Establishment 2
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  • Chapter   III Supply of Services between the Community and the Czech Republic 3
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  • Chapter   IV General Provisions 3
  • Article   59 3
  • Title   V PAYMENTS, CAPITAL, COMPETITION AND OTHER ECONOMIC PROVISIONS, APPROXIMATION OF LAWS 3
  • Chapter   I Current Payments and Movement of Capital 3
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  • Chapter   II Competition and other Economic Provisions 3
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  • Chapter   III Approximation of Laws 3
  • Article   69 3
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  • Title   VI ECONOMIC COOPERATION 3
  • Article   72 3
  • Article   73 Industrial Cooperation 3
  • Article   74 Investment Promotion and Protection 3
  • Article   75 Industrial Standards and Conformity Assessment 4
  • Article   76 Cooperation In Science and Technology 4
  • Article   77 Education and Training 4
  • Article   78 Agriculture and the Agro-industrial Sector 4
  • Article   79 Energy 4
  • Article   80 Nuclear Safety 4
  • Article   81 Environment 4
  • Article   82 Transport 4
  • Article   83 Telecommunications 4
  • Article   84 Banking, Insurance, other Financial Services and Audit Cooperation 4
  • Article   85 Monetary Policy 4
  • Article   86 Money Laundering 4
  • Article   87 Regional Development 4
  • Article   88 Social Cooperation 5
  • Article   89 Tourism 5
  • Article   90 Small and Medium-sized Enterprises 5
  • Article   91 Information and Communication 5
  • Article   92 Consumer Protection 5
  • Article   93 Customs 5
  • Article   94 Statistical Cooperation 5
  • Article   95 Economics 5
  • Article   96 Drugs 5
  • Title   VII CULTURAL COOPERATION 5
  • Article   97 5
  • Title   VIII FINANCIAL COOPERATION 5
  • Article   98 5
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  • Title   IX INSTITUTIONAL, GENERAL AND FINAL PROVISIONS 5
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