Avamprogetto 1 (inglese)

HAVING REGARD TO the Agreement of 21 June 1999 between the European Community and its Member States, of the one part, and the Swiss Confederation, of the other, on the free movement of persons (hereinafter referred to as “the Agreement”), which entered into force on 1 June 2002;

HAVING REGARD TO the Protocol of 26 October 2004 to the Agreement of 21 June 1999 between the European Community and its Member States, of the one part, and the Swiss Confederation, of the other, on the free movement of persons regarding the participation, as contracting parties, of the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia, and the Slovak Republic pursuant to their accession to the European Union (hereinafter referred to as “the Protocol of 2004”), which entered into force on 1 April 2006;

HAVING REGARD TO the accession of the Republic of Bulgaria and Romania (hereinafter referred to as “the new Member States”) to the European Union on 1 January 2007;

WHEREAS the new Member States are to become Contracting Parties to the Agreement;

CONSIDERING that the Act of Accession grants to the Council of the European Union the power to conclude on behalf of the Member States of the European Union a protocol on the accession of the new Member States to the Agreement;

HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS:

Article 1

1. The new Member States hereby become Contracting Parties to the Agreement.

2. From the entry into force of this Protocol, the provisions of the Agreement shall be binding on the new Member States as on the present Contracting Parties of the Agreement under the terms and conditions laid down in this Protocol.

Article 2

In the main body of the Agreement and in Annex I thereto the following adaptations shall be made:

a) The list of Contracting Parties of the Agreement shall be replaced by the following:

‘THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY,

THE KINGDOM OF BELGIUM,

THE REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA,

THE CZECH REPUBLIC,