Article 22

This Protocol is drawn up in a single original in the Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish languages, each of these texts being equally authentic.

This Protocol shall be ratified or approved by the Contracting Parties in accordance with their respective constitutional requirements.

It shall be deposited with the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Communities which shall transmit certified copies to all the other Contracting Parties.

The instruments of ratification or approval shall be deposited with the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Communities which shall notify all the other Contracting Parties.

This Protocol shall enter into force on 1 July 1993 provided that all the Contracting Parties referred to in Article 1 (1) have deposited their instruments of ratification or approval of the EEA Agreement and of this Protocol before that date. After the date, this Protocol shall enter into force on the first day of the month following the last deposit. If, however, such deposit is made less than 15 days before the beginning of the following month, this Protocol shall not enter into force until the first day of the second month after the date of such deposit.

As regards Liechtenstein, this Protocol shall enter into force following the deposit of its instruments of ratification of the EEA Agreement and this Protocol, on the date determined by the EEA Council under the conditions laid down in Article 1 (2).