Ambassade van het
Koninkrijk der Nederlanden
Vilnius, 28 April 2004
Note no. 215/VIL/04
The Royal Netherlands Embassy presents its compliments to the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania and has the honour to propose, with reference
to the Co-operation Agreement between the Republic of Lithuania and the European Police
Office of 30 October 2003 (hereinafter ``the Agreement"), and in view of Article 41,
paragraph 2 of the Convention based on Article K.3 of the Treaty on European Union,
on the establishment of a European Police Office (Europol Convention, 26 July 1995),
that the privileges and immunities necessary for the proper performance of the tasks
of the liaison officers at Europol referred to in Article 14 and Annex 3 of the Agreement,
be agreed upon as set out in the Attachment.
If this proposal is acceptable to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic
of Lithuania, the Embassy proposes that this note and the affirmative note of the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania shall constitute an Agreement
between the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Republic of Lithuania, which shall
be applied provisionally from the day on which this affirmative note has been received
by the Embassy, and which shall enter into force on the first day of the second month
following the date on which the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Republic of Lithuania
have informed each other that the formalities required for the entry into force have
been complied with.
The Royal Netherlands Embassy avails itself of this opportunity to renew to the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania the assurances of its highest consideration.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
of the Republic of Lithuania
VILNIUS
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