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DECLARATION OF PROVISIONAL APPLICATION

of the 1983 Protocols for the further extension of the Wheat Trade Convention, 1971, and the Food Aid Convention, 1980, constituting the International Wheat Agreement, 1971

It will not be possible for the European Economic Community to complete between now and 30 June 1983 the institutional procedures laid down in Article 6 of the Protocol for the further extension of the Wheat Trade Convention, 1971, and in Article VI of the Protocol for the further extension of the Food Aid Convention, 1980.

In accordance with Articles 8 and VII of the said Protocols, the Community therefore makes this declaration of provisional application. By depositing such a declaration, the Community regards itself to be provisionally a party to the Protocols concerned, with all the rights and obligations which result therefrom, until such time as the Council of the European Communities has taken a final decision on the matter.

On behalf

of the European Economic Community