S.I. No. 122/1994:

EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1993 (SECTION 2) (COMMENCEMENT) ORDER, 1994.

EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1993 (SECTION 2) (COMMENCEMENT) ORDER, 1994.

I, DICK SPRING, Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 7 (3) of the European Communities (Amendment) Act, 1993 (No. 25 of 1993), hereby order as follows:

1. This Order may be cited as the European Communities (Amendment) Act, 1993 (Section 2) (Commencement) Order, 1994.

2. This fifth day of May, 1994, is hereby appointed as the day on which section 2 of the European Communities (Amendment) Act, 1993 (No. 25 of 1993), shall come into operation.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 5th day of May, 1994.

DICK SPRING,

Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The effect of this Order is to bring into operation section 2 of the European Communities (Amendment) Act, 1993 . The main provision of the said section 2 is to insert, in the definition of the treaties governing the European Communities, the Act amending the Protocol on the Statute of the European Investment Bank, empowering the Board of Governors to establish a European Investment Fund, signed at Brussels on 25th March, 1993, together with the Treaty amending certain provisions of the Protocol on the Statute of the European Investment Bank, signed at Brussels on 10th July, 1975.