
1 
This Order may be cited as the European Communities (Definition of Treaties) (The Energy Charter Treaty) Order 1996. It shall come into force, in respect of the treaty specified in the Schedule to this Order, on the date on which the treaty enters into force for the United Kingdom. This date will be notified in the London, Edinburgh and Belfast Gazettes.
2 
The treaty specified in the Schedule to this Order is to be regarded as a Community Treaty as defined in section 1(2) of the European Communities Act 1972.
N. H. Nicholls
Clerk of the Privy Council

SCHEDULE

The Energy Charter Treaty signed at Lisbon on 17 December 1994.
