Article 5
Member States shall, at the earliest opportunity, use their best endeavours to ensure that the HNS Convention is amended to allow the Community to become a contracting party to it. Done at Brussels, 18 November 2002. For the Council The President P. S. Møller (1) OJ C 51 E, 26.2.2002, p. 370. (2) Opinion delivered on 11 June 2002 (not yet published in the Official Journal). (3) OJ L 12, 16.1.2001, p. 1. (4) All the Member States to which this Decision is applicable except the Member State making the declaration and Denmark. (5) Member State making the declaration. (6) At present, these rules are laid down in Regulation (EC) No 44/2001.