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Additional protocol

to the Cooperation Agreement for the Protection of the Coasts and Waters of the North-East Atlantic against Pollution

The Portuguese Republic, the Kingdom of Spain, the French Republic, the Kingdom of Morocco and the European Community, hereinafter referred to as ‘the Parties’,

AWARE of the need to protect the environment in general and the marine environment in particular,

RECOGNISING that pollution of the North-East Atlantic Ocean by hydrocarbons and other harmful substances may threaten the marine environment and the interests of coastal States,

TAKING into account the need to facilitate the rapid entry into force of the Cooperation Agreement for the Protection of the Coasts and Waters of the North-East Atlantic against Pollution, done at Lisbon on 17 October 1990, hereinafter referred to as ‘the Lisbon Agreement’,

HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS:

In witness whereof the undersigned, being duly authorised thereto, have signed this Protocol.

Done at Lisbon on the twentieth day of May in the year two thousand and eight, in the Arabic, Spanish, French and Portuguese languages, the French text being authentic in the event of divergence.

FOR THE PORTUGUESE REPUBLIC

FOR THE KINGDOM OF SPAIN

FOR THE FRENCH REPUBLIC

FOR THE KINGDOM OF MOROCCO

FOR THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY

  1. 1Amendment to the Lisbon Agreement
  2. 2Relationship between the Lisbon Agreement and the Additional Protocol
  3. 3Consent to be bound and entry into force