
Sole Article 
The accession of the European Atomic Energy Community to the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material and Nuclear Facilities, as amended by the Final Act signed on 8 July 2005, is hereby approved.
The texts of the amended Convention and of the declaration by the Community according to Articles 18(4) and 17(3) of the Convention are attached to this Decision.
Done at Brussels, 10 July 2007.
For the Council
The President
F. TEIXEIRA DOS SANTOS
The following States are presently members of the European Atomic Energy Community: the Kingdom of Belgium, the Republic of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, the Kingdom of Denmark, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Republic of Estonia, Ireland, the Hellenic Republic, the Kingdom of Spain, the French Republic, the Italian Republic, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Republic of Austria, the Republic of Poland, the Portuguese Republic, Romania, the Republic of Slovenia, the Slovak Republic, the Republic of Finland, the Kingdom of Sweden, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
The Community declares that Articles 8 to 13 and Article 14, paragraphs (2) and (3) of the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material and Nuclear Facilities do not apply to it.
Furthermore, pursuant to Article 17(3) of that Convention, the Community also declares that since only States may be parties in cases before the International Court of Justice, the Community is bound only by the arbitration procedure referred to in 17(2).
