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Law No. 23 Of January 13, 1998

Original Language Title:  LEGE nr. 23 din 13 ianuarie 1998

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LEGE no. 23 23 of 13 January 1998 for the ratification of the Additional Protocol to the European Convention on the equivalence of diplomas allowing access to university institutions, adopted in Strasbourg on 3 June 1964
ISSUER PARLIAMENT
Published in OFFICIAL MONITOR no. 19 19 of 21 January 1998



The Romanian Parliament adopts this law + Article UNIC The Additional Protocol to the European Convention on the equivalence of diplomas allowing access to university institutions, adopted in Strasbourg on 3 June 1964, is hereby ratified. This law was adopted by the Senate at the meeting of October 28, 1997, in compliance with the provisions of art 74 74 para. (2) of the Romanian Constitution. SENATE PRESIDENT PETRE ROMAN This law was adopted by the Chamber of Deputies at its meeting on December 8, 1997, in compliance with the provisions of 74 74 para. (2) of the Romanian Constitution. p. CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES PRESIDENT ANDREI IOAN CHILIMAN + ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL to the European Convention on the equivalence of diplomas allowing access to university institutions *) ------------ Note * *) Translation. Member States of the Council of Europe, signatories to this Protocol, considering the purpose it proposes to achieve the European Convention on the equivalence of diplomas allowing access to universities, signed in Paris on 11 December 1953, referred to in the following convention, considering the interest that this convention would present in order to extend the benefits and to the degree holders who give them the necessary qualification to be admitted to universities, when these diplomas are issued by institutions that another Contracting Party officially encourages outside its territory which it assimilates to those issued by that country itself, have agreed on the following: + Article 1 1. Any contracting party recognizes, for admission to universities located on its territory, when this admission is subject to state control, the equivalence of diplomas issued by the institutions that another contracting party officially encourages outside its territory and which it assimilates to those released on its territory. 2. Admission to any university will be made within the limits of available seats. 3. Each Contracting Party reserves the right not to apply the provisions referred to in paragraph 1 to its own citizens. 4. If admission to the universities located in the territory of a Contracting Party is not subject to State control, the Contracting Party concerned shall transmit to these universities the text of this Protocol and make every effort to obtain the adhesion of the named universities to the principles set out in the preceding paragraphs of this Article. + Article 2 Each Contracting Party shall communicate to the General Secretariat of the Council of Europe a list of institutions officially encouraged by it outside its territory, which shall issue diplomas giving the necessary qualification to be admitted in the the universities located on its territory. + Article 3 For the purposes of this Protocol: a) the term diploma designates any diploma, certificate or other title, in any form it would present, issued or registered, which gives the holder or the qualification necessary to be admitted to a university; b) the term universities designate: (i) universities; (ii) the institutions considered, by the contracting party on whose territory they are situated, as having the same character as a university; c) the expression of the territory of a Contracting Party designates the + Article 4 1. The Member States of the Council of Europe, which are Contracting Parties to the Convention, may become Contracting Parties to this Protocol by: a) signing without reservation of ratification or acceptance; b) signing without reservation of ratification or acceptance, as a result of ratification or acceptance. 2. Any State adhering to the Convention may accede to this Protocol. 3. The instruments of ratification, acceptance or adhesion will be submitted to the General Secretariat of the Council of Europe. + Article 5 1. This Protocol shall enter into force one month from the date on which two Member States of the Council of Europe shall be signed without reservation of ratification or acceptance or shall be ratified or accepted in accordance with the provisions of art. 4. 2. For any member state of the Council of Europe which, subsequently, will sign the protocol without reservation of ratification or acceptance or ratify or accept it, the Protocol will enter into force one month after the date of signature or deposit of the instrument of ratification or acceptance. 3. For any acceding state, the protocol will enter into force one month after the date of deposit of the adhesion instrument. However, this adhesion will not enter into force before the entry into force of the Protocol. + Article 6 1. This Protocol will remain in force for an indefinite duration. 2. Any Contracting Party may, as far as it is concerned, cancel this Protocol, by addressing a notification to the Secretary-General of the Council of Europe. 3. The cancellation will begin 6 months after the date of receipt of the notification by the Secretary General of the Council of Europe. + Article 7 The Secretary-General of the Council of Europe shall notify the Member States of the Council and any State which has acceded to a) any signature without reservation of ratification or acceptance; b) any signature subject to ratification or acceptance; c) the deposit of any instrument of ratification, acceptance or adhesion; d) any date of entry into force of this Protocol, according to art. 5 5; e) any notification received pursuant to the provisions of art. 2 2 and 6. In the knowledge of the case, the undersigned, fully authorised to do so, have signed this Protocol. Drawn up in Strasbourg, on 3 June 1964, in French and English, both texts having equal value, in a single copy to be deposited in the archives of the Council of Europe. The Secretary-General of the Council of Europe will send a certified copy to each signatory and adherent state. For the Government of the Republic of Austria, for the Government of Malta, subject to ratification or acceptance, for the Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands: Strasbourg, 20 April 1971 ' As regards the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the expression of the Metropolitan Laubeterment mentioned in art. 3 lit. c) of the Government of the Kingdom of Belgium, the Protocol loses its original meaning and will be considered as subject to ratification or acceptance, meaning European territory, having regard to the equality René Coenecare exists in terms of the right public between the Government of the Republic of Cyprus, the Netherlands, Suriname and the NeIrish Antilles '. subject to ratification or acceptance, for the Government of the Kingdom of Denmark, W.J.D. Philipse Mogens WarbergFor the Government of the Kingdom of Norway, for the Government of the French Republic, Knut Frydenlund C.H. BonfilsFor the Government of the Kingdom of Sweden, Government of the Federal Republic of Germany, Strasbourg, 21 June 1967, subject to ratification or acceptance, Sten Lindh Felicia PrillFor the Government of the Swiss Confederation, for the Government of the Kingdom of Greece, For the Government of the Republic of Turkey, For Government of the Republic of Iceland, subject to ratification or acceptance, Strasbourg, 27 November 1964, For The Government Of Ireland, Nihat Dinc For The Government Of The United Kingdom For The Government Of The Italian Republic, Great Britain And Northern Ireland, Subject To Ratify Or Accept, I. F. Porter Alessandro MarieniFor the Government of the Portuguese Republic, for the Government of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, subject to ratification or acceptance, subject to ratification or acceptance, Strasbourg, 27 April 1978, Pierre VurthVictor Machado + STATEMENT OF INTERPRETATION At the time of signing the Additional Protocol to the European Convention on the equivalence of diplomas allowing access to universities, the Committee of Ministers made the following interpretative statement: "The Protocol also refers to European schools when the diplomas issued by them correspond to the conditions laid down by the first paragraph of the first article of the said Protocol." DECLARATIONS MADE BY THE MEMBER STATES FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY (Minutes of 23 July 1971 deposit of the instrument of ratification) At the time of the submission and on behalf of his Government, the permanent representative stated that the Additional Protocol to the European Convention on the equivalence of diplomas allowing access to universities will also apply to the Land of Berlin as of the date to which it will enter into force for the Federal Republic of Germany. THE NETHERLANDS 1. (the original statement in the protocol) " As regards the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the expression of the metropolitan territory referred to in art. 3 3, lit. c) the protocol loses its original meaning and will be considered to mean European territory, given the equality that exists in terms of public law between the Netherlands, Suriname and the NeIrish Antilles. " 2. (extract from the instrument submitted on 21 January 1965) We hereby approve, by present, for the Kingdom in Europe, for Suriname and the NeIrish Antilles, in all the provisions that are contained herein, the protocol reproduced above. We declare that it is accepted, ratified and confirmed and we promise that it will be respected inviolably. UNITED KINGDOM (Statement made at the time of signing-Letter of 25 August 1964 of the Permanent Representative of the Council of Europe) It was stated in art. 2 of the Additional Protocol to the European Convention on the equivalence of diplomas allowing access to universities that each Contracting Party will provide a list of the institutions it subsidises outside its territory and which issue diplomas that allow access to universities located on its territory. At the moment there is no, for the UK, institutions to meet these conditions. -------------