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28.4.72 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 101 / 1

REGULATION (EURATOM, ECSC, EEC) No 857/72 OF THE COUNCIL of 24 April 1972 providing for special editions of the Official Journal of the European Communities

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, drawn up by the Council or the Commission in the Danish, English and Norwegian languages shall, from Having regard to the Treaty establishing the the date of accession, be authentic under the same European Economic Community, and in particular conditions as the texts drawn up in the four original Article 217 thereof; languages and shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Communities if the texts in Having regard to the Treaty establishing the the original languages were so published; European Atomic Energy Community, and in particular Article 190 thereof; Whereas in accordance with Article 29 of the Act of Accession Regulation No 1 will be adapted from 1 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the January 1973 , so that the Official Journal of the European Coal and Steel Community ; European Communities will, from that date, be published in seven official languages ; Whereas Article 5 of Regulation No l1 of the Whereas, therefore, provision should be made for the Council of the European Economic Community and conditions under which the abovementioned acts are of the Council of the European Atomic Energy to be. published until 31 December 1972 ; Community prescribes that the Official Journal shall be published in the four official languages;

Whereas the Treaty concerning the Accession of the HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Kingdom of Denmark, Ireland, the Kingdom of Norway and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the European Economic Article 1 Community and the European Atomic Energy Community and the Decision of the Council of the By way of derogation from Regulation No 1, the European Communities of 22 January 1972 Treaty concerning the Accession of the Kingdom of concerning the Accession of the Kingdom of Denmark, Ireland, the Kingdom of Norway gnd the Denmark, Ireland, the Kingdom of Norway and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the European Economic Community and Ireland to the European Coal and Steel Community the European Atomic Energy Community and the were drawn up in the Danish, Dutch, English, Decision of the Council of the European French, German, Irish, Italian and Norwegian Communities of 22 January 1972 concerning the languages, all eight texts being equally authentic; Accession of the Kingdom of Denmark, Ireland, the Kingdom of Norway and the United Kingdom of Whereas the Council has decided to publish those Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the European texts ; Coal and Steel Community shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Communities in the Whereas Article 155 of the Act concerning the languages in which those texts were drawn up. The Conditions of Accession and the Adjustments to texts of the acts referred to in Article 155 of the Act the Treaties (hereinafter called the 'Act of Accession') of Accession which shall, from the date of accession, be authentic under the same conditions as the texts prescribes that the texts of the acts of the institutions of the Communities adopted before accession and drawn up in the four original languages, shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Communities if the texts in the original languages 1 OJ No 17, 6.10.1958, pp . 385/58 and 401/58. were so published.

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To this end special editions of the Official Journal of Article 2 the European Communities shall be drawn up and published in the Danish, English, Irish and Norwegian languages. This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of Publication in these special editions shall have the its publication in the Official Journal of the European same legal force as publication in the Official Journal Communities . It shall remain in force until 31 De­ of the European Communities. cember 1972 .

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .

Done at Luxembourg, 24 April 1972.

For the Council The President G. THORN