# Council Decision of 28 March 1983 on the conclusion of a Community COST Concertation Agreement on a concerted action project in the field of shore-base marine navigation aid systems (COST Project 301) (83/124/EEC), Article 6


1. This Agreement shall be open for signature by the Community and by the non-member States of that Community which took part in the Ministerial Conference held in Brussels on 22 and 23 November 1971.
2. As a condition precedent to its participation in the concerted action project defined in Article 1, each of the Contracting Parties shall, after signing this Agreement, have notified the Secretary-General of the Council of the European Communities not later than 31 December 1983 of the completion of the procedures necessary under its internal provisions for the implementation of this Agreement.
3. For the Contracting Parties which have transmitted the notification provided for in paragraph 2, this Agreement shall come into force on the first day of the month following that in which the Community and at least one of the participating non-member States transmitted these notifications.
For those Contracting Parties which transmit the notification after the entry into force of this Agreement, it shall come into force on the first day of the second month following the month in which the notification was transmitted.
Contracting Parties which have not transmitted this notification when this Agreement comes into force shall be able to take part in the work of the Committee without voting rights until 31 December 1983.
4. The Secretary-General of the Council of the European Communities shall inform each of the Contracting Parties of the notifications provided for in paragraph 2 and of the date of entry into force of this Agreement.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/1983/124/attachment/1/article/6 (the official version)
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