Notice to the reader

Due to the very late completion of the negotiations of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community, of the one part, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, of the other part, the Agreement between the European Union and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland concerning security procedures for exchanging and protecting classified information, and the Agreement between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the European Atomic Energy Community for Cooperation on the Safe and Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy (‘the Agreements’), it was not possible to proceed to the final legal linguistic revision of the texts of the Agreements before their signature and provisional application. As a result, the texts of the Agreements published in the Official Journal of the European Union on 31 December 2020  ( 1 ) may have contained technical errors and inaccuracies.

As provided for in Article 780 of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement, Article 21 of the Agreement concerning security procedures for exchanging and protecting classified information and Article 25 of the Agreement for Cooperation on the Safe and Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy, immediately after the signature of the Agreements, the Parties proceeded with the final legal-linguistic revision of the texts of the Agreements in the Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish languages.

By exchange of diplomatic notes of 21 April 2021, the Parties established the revised texts of the Agreements in all such languages as authentic and definitive. These authentic and definitive texts replace ab initio the signed versions of the Agreements published in the Official Journal on 31 December 2020.

( 1 )    OJ L 444, 31.12.2020, p. 2 .