2002/628/EC: Council Decision of 25 June 2002 concerning the conclusion, on behalf of the European Community, of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

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Article 1

The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity is hereby approved on behalf of the European Community. The text of the Protocol is set out in Annex A to this Decision.

1. The President of the Council is authorised to designate the person or persons empowered to deposit the instrument of approval on behalf of the European Community with the Secretary General of the United Nations, in accordance with Articles 34 and 41 of the Convention on Biological Diversity. 2. The President of the Council is hereby authorised to designate the person or persons empowered to deposit, on behalf of the European Community, the declaration of competence set out in Annex B to this Decision, in accordance with Article 34(3) of the Convention on Biological Diversity. Done at Luxembourg, 25 June 2002. For the Council The President J. Matas i Palou (1) OJ C 181 E, 30.7.2002, p. 258. (2) Opinion delivered on 11 June 2002 (not yet published in the Official Journal). (3) OJ L 309, 13.12.1993, p. 1.

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