This Decision and the provisions annexed hereto shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Communities.

The Member States shall notify the Secretary General of the Council of the European Communities without delay of the completion of the procedures necessary in accordance with their respective constitutional requirements for the adoption of the provisions annexed to this Decision.

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

Done at Brussels on the twentieth day of September in the year one thousand nine hundred and seventy six.

For the Council of the European Communities

The President

M. VAN DER STOEL

Le ministre des Affaires, َetrangeres du royaume de Belgique

De Minister van Buitenlandse Zaken van het Koninkrijk Belgi

R. VAN ELSLANDE

Kongeriget Danmarks udenrigskonomiminister

Ivar NORGAARD

Der Bundesminister des Auswortigen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland

Hans Dietrich GENSCHER

Le ministre des Affaires, َetrangeres de la Republique francaise

Louis DE GUIRINGAUD

The Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ireland

Aire Gntha Eachtracha na hireann

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