Avamprogetto 1 (inglese)

Article 5

1. Annexes 1 and 2 to this Protocol shall form an integral part thereof.

2. This Protocol, together with the Protocol of 2004, shall form an integral part of the Agreement.

Article 6

1. This Protocol shall be ratified or approved by the Council of the European Union, on behalf of the Member States and the European Community, and by the Swiss Confederation in accordance with their own procedures.

2. The Council of the European Union and the Swiss Confederation shall notify each other of the accomplishment of these procedures.

Article 7

This Protocol shall enter into force on the first day of the first month following the date of the last notification of approval.

Article 8

This Protocol shall remain in force for the same duration and according to the same modalities as the Agreement.

Article 9

1. This Protocol, as well as the Declarations annexed thereto, shall be drawn up in duplicate in the Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish languages, each of those texts being equally authentic.

2. The Bulgarian and Romanian language versions of the Agreement, including all Annexes, Protocols and the Final Act shall be equally authentic. The Joint Committee established by Article 14 of the Agreement shall approve the authentic texts of the Agreement in the new languages.

Done at … on the day … of ….in the year two thousand and eight.