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СТАТУС ПРОТОКОЛА К КОНВЕНЦИИ О СТРОИТЕЛЬСТВЕ И ЭКСПЛУАТАЦИИ УСТАНОВКИ ЕВРОПЕЙСКОГО РЕНТГЕНОВСКОГО ЛАЗЕРА НА СВОБОДНЫХ ЭЛЕКТРОНАХ

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Last updated: 6 February 2023

Entry into force: In accordance with Article 3:

«This Protocol shall enter into force on the first day of the second month after all Governments stated in the preamble to this Protocol have notified the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany as depositary of the Convention that the national approval procedure for this Protocol has been completed.»

Not yet in force

Provisionally applied from 19 March 2018 in accordance with Article 3:

«The Governments stated in the preamble to this Protocol agree that from 19 March 2018 onwards the clauses of the Protocol be applied provisionally, it being understood that the entry into force of the Protocol is subject to the fulfilment of appropriate constitutional procedures in each of the Contracting and Signatory States and the entry into force of the Convention of 30 November 2009 concerning the Construction and Operation of a European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser Facility.»

Source: Federal Law Gazette II 2019, page 94, 95

<1> The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on the occasion of the deposit of the notification of the completion of the national approval procedures, declared the following:

«The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is willing to contribute as a participating state to the establishment and utilisation of the European XFEL Facility. Nevertheless, the United Kingdom of Great Britain»

and Northern Ireland's obligations on signing the Protocol to the Convention concerning the Construction and Operation of a European X-Ray Free- Electron Laser Facility on the Accession of the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland shall be as follows:

1. This Declaration shall replace any previous Declaration of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the «UK»).

2. Article 24 on Confidentiality in the Articles of Association (Annex to the Convention) should be interpreted as follows in order to meet the requirements of the UK's Freedom of Information Act 2000: the UK's shareholder in European XFEL GmbH will not be in breach of Article 24 in circumstances where (i) it is compelled to disclose confidential information in response to a relevant request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, (ii) following consultation with the European XFEL GmbH, none of the exceptions to that Act can be applied to the requested confidential information and (iii) refusal to disclose the information requested would result in a breach of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 by the UK authority serving as the UK's shareholder.

3. In the event of a conflict of terms of the various documentation relating to the UK's participation in XFEL, the following order of precedence shall apply: 1. This Declaration, 2. Protocol to the Convention concerning the Construction and Operation of a European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser Facility on the Accession of the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 3. The Convention, 4. The Articles of Association of the European XFEL GmbH.»