Decision of the Council of the European Union of 5 December 2011 on the admission of the Republic of Croatia to the European Union
Decision of the Council of the European Union of 5 December 2011 on the admission of the Republic of Croatia to the European Union
Decision · 4 articles
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1. The Republic of Croatia hereby becomes a member of the European Union and of the European Atomic Energy Community.
2. The Republic of Croatia becomes a Party to the Treaty on European Union, the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community as amended or supplemented.
3. The conditions of admission and the adjustments to the Treaties referred to in paragraph 2, entailed by such admission, are set out in the Act annexed to this Treaty. The provisions of that Act are an integral part of this Treaty.
The provisions concerning the rights and obligations of the Member States and the powers and jurisdiction of the institutions of the Union, as set out in the Treaties to which the Republic of Croatia becomes a Party by virtue of Article 1(2), shall apply in respect of this Treaty.
1. This Treaty shall be ratified by the High Contracting Parties in accordance with their respective constitutional requirements. The instruments of ratification shall be deposited with the Government of the Italian Republic by 30 June 2013.
2. By ratifying this Treaty, the Republic of Croatia is also deemed to have ratified or approved any amendments to the Treaties referred to in Article 1(2) open for ratification or approval by the Member States pursuant to Article 48 of the Treaty on European Union at the moment of ratification of this Treaty by the Republic of Croatia, as well as any acts of the institutions, adopted at or before that same moment and which only enter into force after having been approved by the Member States in accordance with their respective constitutional requirements.
3. This Treaty shall enter into force on 1 July 2013 provided that all the instruments of ratification have been deposited before that date.
4. Notwithstanding paragraph 3, the institutions of the Union may adopt before accession the measures referred to in Article 3(7), Article 6(2), second subparagraph, 6(3), second subparagraph, 6(6), second and third subparagraphs, 6(7), second subparagraph, 6(8), third subparagraph, Article 17, Articles 29(1), 30(5), 31(5), 35(3) and (4), Articles 38, 39, 41, 42, 43, 44, 49, 50 and 51 and Annexes IV to VI of the Act referred to in Article 1(3).
These measures shall enter into force only subject to and on the date of the entry into force of this Treaty.
5. Notwithstanding paragraph 3, Article 36 of the Act referred to in Article 1(3) applies upon signature of this Treaty.
This Treaty, drawn up in a single original in the Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish languages, the texts in each of these languages being equally authentic, shall be deposited in the archives of the Government of the Italian Republic, which will transmit a certified copy to each of the Governments of the other Signatory States.
