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Council Decision (EU) 2016/2311 of 8 December 2016 authorising certain Member States to accept, in the interest of the European Union, the accession of Kazakhstan to the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction

Council Decision (EU) 2016/2311 of 8 December 2016 authorising certain Member States to accept, in the interest of the European Union, the accession of Kazakhstan to the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction

Decision (EU) 2016/2311 · Decision · 4 articles

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Article 1

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1.   The Member States that have not yet done so are hereby authorised to accept the accession of Kazakhstan to the Hague Convention of 25 October 1980 on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (‘the 1980 Hague Convention’) in the interest of the Union. 2.   Member States referred to in paragraph 1 shall, no later than 9 December 2017, deposit a declaration of acceptance of the accession of Kazakhstan to the 1980 Hague Convention in the interest of the Union worded as follows: ‘[Full name of MEMBER STATE] declares that it accepts the accession of Kazakhstan to the Hague Convention of 25 October 1980 on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, in accordance with Council Decision (EU) 2016/2311’. 3.   Each Member State shall inform the Council and the Commission of the deposit of its declaration of acceptance of the accession of Kazakhstan and communicate to the Commission the text of the declaration within 2 months of its deposit.

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The Member State which deposited its declaration of acceptance of the accession of Kazakhstan to the 1980 Hague Convention prior to the date of adoption of this Decision, shall not deposit a new declaration.

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This Decision shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union .

Article 4

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This Decision is addressed to all Member States with the exception of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Kingdom of Denmark.

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