51989XG0214

Council communication

(89/C 37/01)

Following the deposit, on 19 January 1989, of the instrument of ratification by the Hellenic Republic of the Convention on the accession of the Hellenic Republic to the Convention on jurisdiction and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters and to the Protocol on its interpretation by the Court of Justice of the European Communities, signed in Luxembourg on 25 October 1982 (1), the latter will enter into force, in accordance with the first paragraph of Article 15 thereof, on 1 April 1989 as between the eight States which have already deposited their instruments of ratification of this Convention (Belgium, Denmark, Federal Republic of Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Ireland) and Greece.

(1) OJ No L 388, 31.12.1982.

As the United Kingdom has not yet deposited its instrument of ratification of this Convention, relations between the abovementioned eight States and the United Kingdom will continue to be governed by the Brussels Convention of 27 September 1968 on jurisdiction and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters and by the Protocol of 3 June 1971 on the interpretation of that Convention, as adapted by the Convention of Accession of 9 October 1978 (2) of the Kingdom of Denmark, Ireland and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

(2) OJ No L 304, 30.10.1978.