Article 2
The President of the Council is hereby authorized to designate the person empowered to sign the declaration shown in the Annex and to deposit it with the Government of the United States of America. Done at Luxembourg, 27 June 1980. For the Council The President A. SARTI ANNEX Declaration of provisional application of the Food Aid Convention 1980, the text of which was established by the Conference held for that purpose in London on 6 March 1980 It will not be possible for the European Economic Community to complete by 30 June 1980 the institutional procedures provided for in Article XIV of the Food Aid Convention 1980. Therefore, in accordance with Article XV of the Food Aid Convention 1980, the Community makes this declaration of provisional application of the Convention. By depositing such a declaration, the Community considers itself to be provisionally a party to the Convention with all the rights and obligations which derive therefrom until such time as the Council of the European Communities shall have taken a final decision on the matter. On behalf of the Council of the European Communities