Final Act Of the Negotiations To adopt the Agreement between the European Community and the Republic of Latvia concerning the participation of the Republic of Latvia to the European Environment Agency and the European Environment Information and Observation network

Representatives of the Government of the Republic of Latvia and of the European Commission have held negotiations in the course of the year Two Thousand for the purpose of negotiating and adopting the text of an Agreement between the European Community and the Republic of Latvia concerning the participation of the Republic of Latvia to the European Environment Agency and the European Environment Information and Observation network.

The representatives of the European Commission pursued the above-mentioned negotiations on the basis of a Recommendation of the Council of the European Community on the negotiations, in the name of the European Community, of the conditions for participation of the accession countries in the European Environment Agency, dated the Fourteenth of February of the year Two Thousand.

The representatives of the Government of the Republic of Latvia and of the European Commission took note of the results of two prior negotiating sessions, held in Brussels on the Twenty Seventh of March of the year Two Thousand and on the Tenth of July of the year Two Thousand.

The representatives of the Government of the Republic of Latvia and of the European Commission endorsed the outcome of the negotiations and adopted the text of the Agreement between the European Community and the Republic of Latvia concerning the participation of the Republic of Latvia to the European Environment Agency and the European Environment Information and Observation network, appended to this Final Act.

In conformity with its Article 18, the Agreement between the European Community and the Republic of Latvia concerning the participation of the Republic of Latvia to the European Environment Agency and the European Environment Information and Observation network will be approved by the Parties in accordance with their own procedures. The Agreement shall then enter into force on the first day of the second month following the date on which the last Party has notified the first Party that its procedures have been completed.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF the Representatives have signed this Final Act.

Done at Brussels, on the Ninth day of October in the year Two Thousand.