
Article 1 
The Protocol to the Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Croatia, of the other part, to take account of the accession of the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia, and the Slovak Republic to the European Union is hereby approved on behalf of the European Community and the European Atomic Energy Community and their Member States.
The text of the Protocol is attached to Decision 2005/41/EC.
Article 2 
The President of the Council shall, on behalf of the European Community and its Member States, deposit the instruments of approval provided for in Article 13 of the Protocol. The President of the Commission shall simultaneously deposit these instruments on behalf of the European Atomic Energy Community.
Done at Brussels, 21 February 2005.
For the Council
The President
J. ASSELBORN
For the Commission
The President
J. M. BARROSO