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WITHDRAWAL OF DECLARATION

WHEREAS the Slovak Republic deposited a declaration on 31 January 2007 stating as follow “Pending the outcome of discussions concerning Community accession to COTIF, the Slovak Republic will not apply the following appendices of COTIF:

-The Uniform Rules concerning the Contract of Use of Infrastructure in International Rail Traffic (CUI – Appendix E to the Convention),

-The Uniform Rules concerning the Validation of Technical Standards and the Adoption of Uniform Technical Prescriptions applicable to Railway Material intended to be used in International Traffic (APTU – Appendix F to the Convention),

-The Uniform Rules concerning the Technical Admission of Railway Material used in International Traffic (ATMF – Appendix G to the Convention).”

WHEREAS the Agreement between Intergovernmental Organisation for International Carriage by Rail and the European Union on the Accession of the European Union to the Convention concerning International Carriage by Rail (COTIF) of 9 May 1980, as amended by the Vilnius Protocol of 3 June 1999, was done at Berne on 23 June 2011;

the President of the Slovak Republic withdrawing declaration by the Slovak Republic notified above.

DONE at Bratislava……………2015

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