77/586/EEC: Council Decision of 25 July 1977 concluding the Convention for the protection of the Rhine against chemical pollution and an Additional Agreement to the Agreement, signed in Berne on 29 April 1963, concerning the International Commission for the Protection of the Rhine against Pollution

• Articles: 3

Article 1

The Convention for the protection of the Rhine against chemical pollution and the Additional Agreement to the Agreement, signed in Berne on 29 April 1963, concerning the International Commission for the Protection of the Rhine against Pollution are hereby concluded on behalf of the European Economic Community.

The texts of the Convention and the Additional Agreement are annexed to this Decision.

Article 2

The President of the Council of the European Communities shall, on behalf of the European (1)OJ No C 293, 13.12.1976, p. 63. (2)OJ No C 112, 20.12.1973, p. 1. (3)OJ No L 129, 18.5.1976, p. 23.

Economic Community, deposit the instrument of conclusion provided for in Article 17 of the Convention and Article 4 of the Additional Agreement (1).

Article 3

The Community shall be represented by the Commission in the International Commission for the Protection of the Rhine against Pollution.

The Commission shall in that body put forward the position of the Community in accordance with such directives as the Council may give it.

Done at Brussels, 25 July 1977.

For the Council

The President

H. SIMONET (1)The date of the entry into force of the Convention and the Additional Agreement will be published by the General Secretariat of the Council in the Official Journal of the European Communities.