S.I. No. 333/1980 - Eurocontrol (Designation and Immunities) Order 1980

1. The present Protocol shall be ratified, accepted or approved.

2. The instruments of ratification, acceptance or approval shall be deposited with the Government of the Kingdom of Belgium.

3. The present Protocol shall come into force on the first day of the year following the deposit of the instrument of ratification, acceptance or approval of the last State party to the Additional Protocol to complete that formality.

4. The Government of the Kingdom of Belgium shall notify the Governments of the other States parties to the Additional Protocol of any deposit of an instrument of ratification, acceptance or approval and the date of its entry into force.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Government this 29th day of October, 1980.

CHARLES J. HAUGHEY,

Taoiseach.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

This Order enables Ireland to ratify the Protocol amending the additional Protocol to the Eurocontrol International Convention.

The Amending Protocol to the Additional Protocol to the Eurocontrol Convention sanctions the adoption by the Eurocontrol organisation of a system of internal taxation on staff remuneration similar to that operated by the EEC Commission.

The Amending Protocol was signed by Ireland on 21 November 1978.

S.I. No. 333 of 1980.

EUROCONTROL (DESIGNATION AND IMMUNITIES) ORDER 1980

WHEREAS it is enacted by

section 40

(1) of the

Diplomatic Relations and Immunities Act, 1967

(No. 8 of 1967), that the Government may by Order designate an international organisation of which the State or the Government is or intends to become a member to be an organisation to which Part VIII of that Act applies and may by the Order make provision for the purposes of section 42 of that Act as respects certain matters specified in that subsection

AND WHEREAS the State is a member of Eurocontrol

NOW, the Government in exercise of the powers conferred on them by

Section 40

of the

Diplomatic Relations and Immunities Act, 1967

, hereby order as follows