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Joint declaration

on the action programme to be drawn up for the products subject to transition by stages for the first stage of transition ( Portugal )

The action programme to be drawn up for the products subject to transition by stages pursuant to Article 264 ( 2 ) ( a ) of the Act of Accession for the purposes of achieving specific objectives during the first stage of transition shall be drawn up in close cooperation with the Commission and adopted at the latest one month before the date of accession ; this action programme shall be published in the " C " series of the Official Journal of the European Communities .