STATEMENT BY THE KINGDOM OF BELGIUM

ON THE SIGNING OF INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS TO BE CONCLUDED JOINTLY BY THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY AND ITS MEMBER STATES

(95/C 157/01)

At its meeting on 12 June 1995, the Council took note of the following statement by the Kingdom of Belgium and agreed that it should be published in the Official Journal of the European Communities:

'The Kingdom of Belgium intends in future to proceed as follows on the occasion of the signing of international agreements to be concluded jointly by the European Community and its Member States:

(a) only one signature will be appended to those agreements on behalf of the Kingdom of Belgium, whether that signature is appended by a Federal, Regional or Community Minister;

(b) a statement will appear below that signature referring to the Communities and Regions of the Kingdom of Belgium where such an indication is imposed by Belgian constitutional law;

(c) the Kingdom of Belgium confirms that it will in all cases be the Kingdom as such that is bound, in respect of its whole territory, by the provisions of the international agreements which it has concluded;

(d) the Kingdom of Belgium confirms that the Kingdom alone, as such, will bear full responsibility for compliance with the obligations entered into in the international agreements concerned, with regard to both the European Communities and the other contracting States.`