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This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities. This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. Done at Brussels, 26 September 1978. For the Council The President J. ERTL (1)OJ No C 133, 6.6.1977, p.

45. (2)The date of the entry into force of the Additional Protocol and of the Financial Protocol will be published in the Official Journal of the European Communities by the General Secretariat of the Council. ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL to the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the State of Israel HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF THE BELGIANS, HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF DENMARK, THE PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY, THE PRESIDENT OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC, THE PRESIDENT OF IRELAND, THE PRESIDENT OF THE ITALIAN REPUBLIC, HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE GRAND DUKE OF LUXEMBOURG, HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF THE NETHERLANDS, HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND, and THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, of the one part, and THE STATE OF ISRAEL, of the other part,

WISHING to demonstrate their common desire to widen and strengthen their links on the basis of the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the State of Israel, for the mutual benefit of the Parties, RESOLVED to establish wider-ranging cooperation which will contribute to Israel's economic development and help to strengthen relations between the European Economic Community and Israel, HAVE DECIDED to conclude this Protocol and to this end have designated as their plenipotentiaries: HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF THE BELGIANS: Renaat VAN ELSLANDE, Minister for Foreign Affairs; HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF DENMARK: Jens CHRISTENSEN, Ambassador, Permanent Under-Secretary; THE PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY: Hans-Dietrich GENSCHER, Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs; THE PRESIDENT OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC: Louis de GIURINGAUD, Minister for Foreign Affairs; THE PRESIDENT OF IRELAND: Garret FITZGERALD, Minister for Foreign Affairs; THE PRESIDENT OF THE ITALIAN REPUBLIC: Arnaldo FORLANI, Minister for Foreign Affairs; HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE GRAND DUKE OF LUXEMBOURG: Gaston THORN,

President and Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Government of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg; HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF THE NETHERLANDS: Max van der STOEL, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands; HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND: Anthony CROSLAND MP, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES: Anthony CROSLAND MP, President in Office of the Council of the European Communities, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; Claude CHEYSSON, Member of the Commission of the European Communities; THE STATE OF ISRAEL: Yigal ALLON, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs; WHO, having exchanged their Full Powers, found in good and due form, HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS:

In order to achieve the cooperation referred to in Article 2, account shall be taken, in particular, of the following: - the objectives and priorities of Israel's development plans and programmes, - the importance of schemes into which different operations are integrated.

1. The amounts to be committed each year shall be distributed as evenly as possible throughout the period of application of this Protocol. During the initial period of application, however, a proportionately higher amount may, within reasonable limits, be committed.

2. Any funds not committed by the end of the period referred to in Article 2 (1) shall be used, until exhausted. In that event the funds shall be used in accordance with the same arrangements as provided for in this Protocol.