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Commission, delivers an opinion in favour of calling a
conference of representatives of the governments of the Member
States, the conference shall be convened by the President of the
Council for the purpose of determining by common accord the
amendments to be made to those Treaties. The European Central Bank
shall also be consulted in the case of institutional changes in the
monetary area.
The amendments shall enter into force after being ratified by all the
Member States in accordance with their respective constitutional
requirements.
2. A conference of representatives of the governments of the Member
States shall be convened in 1996 to examine those provisions of this
Treaty for which revision is provided, in accordance with the
objectives set out in Articles A and B.
ARTICLE O
Any European State may apply to become a Member of the Union. It
shall address its application to the Council, which shall act
unanimously after consulting the Commission and after receiving the
assent of the European Parliament, which shall act by an absolute
majority of its component members.
The conditions of admission and the adjustments to the Treaties on
which the Union is founded which such admission entails shall be the
subject of an agreement between the Member States and the applicant
State. This agreement shall be submitted for ratification by all the
contracting States in accordance with their respective constitutional
requirements.
ARTICLE P
1. Articles 2 to 7 and 10 to 19 of the Treaty establishing a single
Council and a single Commission of the European Communities,
signed in Brussels on 8 April 1965, are hereby repealed.
2. Article 2, Article 3(2) and Title III of the Single European Act signed in
Luxembourg on 17 February 1986 and in the Hague on February 1986
are hereby repealed.
ARTICLE Q
This Treaty is concluded for an unlimited period.
ARTICLE R
1. This Treaty shall be ratified by the High Contracting Parties in
accordance with their respective constitutional requirements. The
instruments of ratification shall be deposited with the government of
the Italian Republic.
2. This Treaty shall enter into force on 1 January 1993, provided that
all the instruments of ratification have been deposited, or, failing that,
on the first day of the month following the deposit of the instrument of
ratification by the last signatory State to take this step.
ARTICLE S
This Treaty, drawn up in a single original in the Danish
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