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TREATY ESTABLISHING THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY, ANNEX IV - OVERSEAS COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES TO WHICH THE PROVISIONS OF PART IV OF THIS TREATY APPLY

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11957EN04

TREATY ESTABLISHING THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY, ANNEX IV - OVERSEAS COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES TO WHICH THE PROVISIONS OF PART IV OF THIS TREATY APPLY


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ANNEX IV

OVERSEAS COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES

to which the provisions of Part IV of this Treaty apply ( 1 ) , ( 2 ) , ( 3 )

French West Africa : Senegal , French Sudan , French Guinea , Ivory Coast , Dahomey , Mauritania , Niger and Upper Volta ; ( 4 )

French Equatorial Africa : Middle Congo , Ubangi-Shari , Chad and Gabon ; ( 4 )

Saint Pierre and Miquelon , ( 5 ) the Comoro Archipelago , ( 6 ) Madagascar ( 7 ) and dependencies , ( 7 ) French Somaliland , ( 7 ) New Caledonia and dependencies , French Settlements in Oceania , ( 8 ) Southern and Antarctic Territories ;

The autonomous Republic of Togoland ; ( 7 )

The trust territory of the Cameroons under French administration ; ( 7 )

The Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi ; ( 7 )

The trust territory of Somaliland under Italian administration ; ( 7 )

Netherlands New Guinea ; ( 7 )

The Netherlands Antilles ;

Anglo-French Condominium of the New Hebrides ;

The Bahamas ; ( 7 )

Bermuda ; ( 9 )

Brunei ;

Associated States in the Caribbean : Antigua , Dominica , Grenada , ( 7 ) St . Lucia , St Vincent , St Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla ; ( 10 )

British Honduras ; ( 11 )

Cayman Islands ;

Falkland Islands and Dependencies ;

Gilbert and Ellice Islands ; ( 12 )

Central and Southern Line Islands ; ( 13 )

British Solomon Islands ; ( 14 )

Turks and Caicos Islands ;

British Virgin Islands ;

Montserrat ;

Pitcairn ;

St Helena and Dependencies ;

The Seychelles ; ( 15 )

British Antarctic Territory ;

British Indian Ocean Territory . ( 16 )

( 1 ) As amended by

- Article 1 of the Convention of 13 November 1962 amending the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community , ( Official Journal of the European Communities , No 150 , 1 October 1964 , p . 2414 ) and

- Article 24 ( 2 ) of the Act of Accession , modified by Article 13 of the Adaptation Decision .

( 2 ) Annex I to the Council Decision of 29 June 1976 on the association of the overseas countries and territories with the European Economic Community ( Official Journal of the European Communities , No L 176 , 1 July 1976 ) contains a list of the overseas countries and territories to which the provisions of Part Four of the Treaty apply . This Decision was amended by Council Decision 77/155/EEC of 14 February 1977 adjusting Decision 76/568/EEC ( Official Journal of the European Communities , No L 46 , 18 February 1977 ) and most recently by Decision 78/465/EEC of 30 May 1978 ( Official Journal of the European Communities , No L 147 , 3 June 1978 ) .

( 3 ) The provisions of Part Four of the Treaty applied to Surinam , by virtue of a Supplementary Act of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to complete its instruments of ratification , from 1 September 1962 to 16 July 1976 .

( 4 ) The provisions of Part Four of the Treaty no longer apply to these countries and territories , which have become independent and whose names may have been changed .

The relations between the European Economic Community and certain African States and Madagascar were the subject of the Conventions of Association signed at Yaoundé on 20 July 1963 and 29 July 1969 . The relations with certain African , Caribbean and Pacific States were subsequently the subject of the ACP - EEC Convention of Lomé , signed on 28 February 1975 ( Official Journal of the European Communities , No L 25 , 30 January 1976 ) , which entered into force on 1 April 1976 .

( 5 ) Has become a French overseas department .

( 6 ) The provisions of Part Four of the Treaty no longer apply to this Archipelago , except for Mayotte which has remained on the list of overseas countries and territories .

( 7 ) See footnote 4 on the previous page .

( 8 ) New name :

- French Polynesia ,

- Wallis and Futuna Islands .

( 9 ) These territories are not included in the overseas countries and territories covered by the Decision mentioned in footnote 2 on the previous page .

( 10 ) New name : Nevis and Anguilla .

( 11 ) New name : Belize .

( 12 ) New name :

- Gilbert Islands ,

- Tuvalu .

( 13 ) These territories are not included in the overseas countries and territories covered by the Decision mentioned in footnote 2 on p . 453 .

( 14 ) New name : Solomon Islands .

( 15 ) See footnote 4 on p . 453 .

( 16 ) New name : British Indian Ocean Territories .

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