PROTOCOL

to the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement establishing a partnership between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Uzbekistan, of the other part, amending the Agreement in order to extend the provisions of the Agreement to bilateral trade in textiles, taking account of the expiry of the bilateral textiles Agreement

THE EUROPEAN UNION,

of the one part, and

THE REPUBLIC OF UZBEKISTAN,

of the other part,

hereinafter referred to as ‘Parties’ for the purpose of this Protocol,

Whereas:

HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS:

Article 1

The Partnership and Cooperation Agreement establishing a partnership between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Uzbekistan, of the other part, is hereby amended as follows:

Article 2

This Protocol shall enter into force on the first day of the month following the notification by the European Union or Uzbekistan of the completion of the necessary internal procedures for the approval of this Protocol, whichever is the latter.

Article 3

This Protocol shall form an integral part of the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement establishing a partnership between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Uzbekistan, of the other part.

Article 4

This Protocol is drawn up in duplicate in each of the official languages of the Parties, namely in the Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovene, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish and Uzbek languages, each of these texts being equally authentic.