Article 1

It shall be ratified and shall have the effect of Article 28 (1). 1 of the Constitution, the amendment to the Convention on the Establishment of a Customs Cooperation Council of 9 January 1951 (n.1923/1951, A-243), adopted in Brussels on 30 June 2007 from the Full Court of Justice Cooperation, the text of which, in English and French and translated into Greek, is as follows:

MEMBER OF THE GREEK EXCERPT

First, From the Official Journal of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1 February 2012, Meetings of the Assembly of the House, in which

The following draft law was adopted:

Ratification of the outcome of the Convention on the Establishment of a Customs Cooperation Council

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1. Article VIII (a) of the Convention shall be amended as follows:

(a) With the exception of Members who are Customs or Economic Compounds, for which the Council will address specific provisions, each Member of the Council shall have one vote other than that a Member shall not have a vote on request for interpretation; Application or modification of any of the contracts referred to in Article III (d) applicable and not applicable to that Member.

2. Following ARTICLE XVIII (c) of the Convention, the new subparagraph (d) is inserted as follows:

(d) Any Customs or Economic Union may become, in accordance with paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) above, a Contracting Party to the Convention. Any request for Customs or

The Council, acting on a proposal from the Commission, will be invited to the Council for adoption by the Council. For the purposes of this Convention, the Customs Union or the Union shall mean a Union consisting of and consisting of States and has competence to adopt its own regulations, which shall be binding upon those States for the purposes of this Convention. Issues covered by this Convention, and has competence to rule in accordance with its internal procedures, to accede to this Convention.

Article 2

The validity of this law shall start by its publication in the Official Journal of the Government and of the Court of Appeal, which shall be ratified by the fulfilment of the provisions of Article XX (b) and (c) of the Convention.

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Athens, 2012

THE PRESIDENT OF PARLIAMENT

FILIPINO PEBBLE

THE SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

ATHANASIOS D. PAPAIOANNOU, IMMORTALITY. THEODOROPOULOS