EC/Egypt Euro-Mediterranean Association Agreement: protocol to take in account the accession of the new countries in 2004

PURPOSE: to include the 10 new Member States in the Euro-Mediterranean Agreement with Egypt.

LEGISLATIVE ACT: Council Decision 2005/702/EC concerning the conclusion of a Protocol to the Euro-Mediterranean Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, on the one hand, and the Arab Republic of Egypt, on the other, to take account of the accession of the 10 new Member States to the European Union.

CONTENT: this Decision adopts the protocol negotiated with Egypt. The most important aspects of the protocol are provision for the accession of the new Member States to the EU-Egypt Association Agreement, adaptation of the Protocol on agricultural products and inclusion of the new official languages of the EU.

ENTRY INTO FORCE: 1 October 2005.