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  "legislation": "eudn/1998/181",
  "legislation_title": "Council and Commission Decision of 23 September 1997 on the conclusion, by the European Communities, of the Energy Charter Treaty and the Energy Charter Protocol on energy efficiency and related environmental aspectsThe Decision on the conclusion of the Energy Charter Treaty on behalf of the European Community was adopted by the Council on 27 May 1997. (98/181/EC, ECSC, Euratom)",
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  "path": "schedule/ANNEX 1/division",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": null,
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Preamble\nTHE CONTRACTING PARTIES TO THIS TREATY,\nHaving regard to the Charter of Paris for a New Europe signed on 21 November 1990,\nHaving regard to the European Energy Charter adopted in the Concluding Document of the Hague Conference on the European Energy Charter signed at The Hague on 17 December 1991,\nRecalling that all signatories to the Concluding Document of the Hague Conference undertook to pursue the objectives and principles of the European Energy Charter and implement and broaden their cooperation as soon as possible by negotiating in good faith an Energy Charter Treaty and Protocols, and desiring to place the commitments contained in that Charter on a secure and binding international legal basis;\nDesiring also to establish the structural framework required to implement the principles enunciated in the European Energy Charter;\nWishing to implement the basic concept of the European Energy Charter initiative which is to catalyse economic growth by means of measures to liberalize investment and trade in energy;\nAffirming that Contracting Parties attach the utmost importance to the effective implementation of full national treatment and most favoured nation treatment, and that these commitments will be applied to the making of investments pursuant to a supplementary treaty,\nHaving regard to the objective of progressive liberalization of international trade and to the principle of avoidance of discrimination in international trade as enunciated in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and its Related Instruments and as otherwise provided for in this Treaty;\nDetermined progressively to remove technical, administrative and other barriers to trade in energy materials and products and related equipment, technologies and services;\nLooking to the eventual membership in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade of those Contracting Parties which are not currently parties thereto and concerned to provide interim trade arrangements which will assist those Contracting Parties and not impede their preparation for such membership;\nMindful of the rights and obligations of certain Contracting Parties which are also parties to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and its Related Instruments;\nHaving regard to competition rules concerning mergers, monopolies, anti-competitive practices and abuse of dominant position,\nHaving regard also to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, the Nuclear Suppliers Guidelines and other international nuclear non-proliferation obligations or understandings,\nRecognizing the necessity for the most efficient exploration, production, conversion, storage, transport, distribution and use of energy;\nRecalling the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution and its protocols, and other international environmental agreements with energy-related aspects; and\nRecognizing the increasingly urgent need for measures to protect the environment, including the decommissioning of energy installations and waste disposal, and for internationally-agreed objectives and criteria for these purposes,\nHAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS:",
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