Key Benefits:
85. Realization of the Federal Chancellor concerning the scope of the Agreement on the temporary duty-free import of medical, surgical and laboratory equipment for the use in hospitals and other medical devices Institutions for the purpose of diagnosis or treatment, as amended by the Additional Protocol of 29 September 1982
According to the note by the Secretary-General of the Council of Europe, the following other States have their instruments of ratification of the Agreement on the temporary duty-free import of medical, surgical and laboratory equipment for leihwise use in Hospitals and other medical institutions for the purpose of diagnosis or medical treatment, as amended by the Additional Protocol of 29 September 1982 (BGBl. No 288/1961 idF BGBl. No. 139/1985, last proclamation of the BGBl area. No. 151/1987):
States: |
Date of deposit of the instrument of ratification: |
Lithuania |
18 September 2002 |
Slovakia |
7 May 2001 |
Slovenia |
4 October 2000 |
According to a further communication from the Secretary-General of the Council of Europe, the European Union 1 On 30 November 2009 the following statement was made:
The Treaty of Lisbon, amending the Treaty on European Union and the Treaty establishing the European Community, will enter into force on 1 December 2009.
As a result, from that date on, the European Union will replace the European Community and follow it up (Art. Article 1 (3) of the Treaty on European Union, as set out in the amendments by the Treaty of Lisbon).
Therefore, from this date on, the European Union will exercise all the rights of the European Community and assume all its obligations, including its status within the Organization, by continuing to exercise existing rights and The European Union's obligations to take over.
In particular, from that date, the European Union will take over all the agreements concluded by the European Community with your organisation and all the commitments entered into and binding on the European Community.
In addition, the United Kingdom 2 The following statement was made on 14 May 1993:
Under Article 5 of the Agreement, the United Kingdom declares that the Agreement and the Additional Protocol to this Agreement shall also apply to the island of Man for whose international relations the United Kingdom is responsible.
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