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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2007-857/introduction",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2007/857",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision of 8 November 2007 amending Annex I to the 2005 Act of Accession (2007/857/EC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2007-857",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Council Decision\nof 8 November 2007\namending Annex I to the 2005 Act of Accession\n(2007/857/EC)\nTHE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,\nHaving regard to the 2005 Act of Accession, and in particular Article 3(6) thereof,\nHaving regard to the proposal from the Commission,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nArticle 3(3) of the 2005 Act of Accession provides that the Republic of Bulgaria and Romania accede to the conventions and protocols listed in Annex I.\n(2)\nThe Member States signed on 14 April 2005 a Convention on the accession 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 to the Convention on the law applicable to contractual obligations opened for signature in Rome on 19 June 1980, and to the First and Second Protocols on its interpretation by the Court of Justice of the European Communities.\n(3)\nProvision should be made for the accession of the Republic of Bulgaria and Romania to the Convention on the law applicable to contractual obligations opened for signature in Rome on 19 June 1980, and to the First and Second Protocols on its interpretation by the Court of Justice of the European Communities, as amended by the Convention of 14 April 2005. To this end, that Convention should be added to Annex I to the 2005 Act of Accession,\nHAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ C 169, 8.7.2005, p. 1."
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2007/857/introduction",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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