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Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community - Title IV - General provisions - Article 79

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Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community - Title IV - General provisions - Article 79


Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community - Title IV - General provisions - Article 79

This Treaty shall apply to the European territories of the High Contracting Parties. It shall also apply to European territories for whose external relations a signatory State is responsible; as regards the Saar, an exchange of letters between the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Government of the French Republic is annexed to this Treaty.

Notwithstanding the preceding paragraph:

(a) This Treaty shall not apply to the Faeroe Islands.

(b) This Treaty shall not apply to the Sovereign Base Areas of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Cyprus.

(c) This Treaty shall apply to the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man only to the extent necessary to ensure the implementation of the arrangements for those islands set out in the Decision of the Council of the European Communities of 22 January 1972 concerning the accession of new Member States to the European Coal and Steel Community.*

* Second paragraph, added by Article 25 AA DK/IRL/UK, modified by Article 14 AD AA DK/IRL/UK and Article H(20) TEU.

(d) This Treaty shall not apply to the Åland Islands. The Government of Finland may, however, give notice, by a declaration deposited when ratifying this Treaty with the Government of the Italian Republic, that the Treaty shall apply to the Åland Islands in accordance with the provisions set out in Protocol No 2 to the Act concerning the conditions of accession of the Republic of Austria, the Republic of Finland and the Kingdom of Sweden and the adjustments to the Treaties on which the European Union is founded. The Government of the Italian Republic shall transmit a certified copy of any such declaration to the Member States. *

* Point (d) added by Article 28 AA A/FIN/SWE in the version resulting from Article 19 AD AA A/FIN/SWE.

Each High Contracting Party undertakes to extend to the other Member States the preferential treatment which it enjoys with respect to coal and steel in the non European territories under its jurisdiction.

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