
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 Republic of Bulgaria and Romania to the European Union is hereby approved on behalf of the European Community, the European Atomic Energy Community and the Member States.
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 12(2) of the Protocol. The President of the Commission shall simultaneously deposit these instruments on behalf of the European Atomic Energy Community.
Done at Brussels, 16 February 2009.
For the Council
The President
O. LIŠKA
For the Commission
The President
José MANUEL BARROSO