Preamble
The States Parties to this Protocol,
Considering the Convention for the Establishment of a European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the Financial Protocolannexed thereto, signed on 1st July 1953, entered into force on 29 September 1954
and amended on 17 January 1971;
Considering that the Organization has its seat in Geneva, Switzerland, and that its
status in Switzerland is defined by the Agreement between the Swiss Federal Council
and the Organization dated 11 June 1955;
Considering that the Organization is also established in France, where its status
is defined by the Agreement between the Government of the French Republic and the
Organization dated 13 September 1965, as revised on 16 June 1972;
Considering also the Convention between the Federal Council of the Swiss Confederation
and the Government of the French Republic dated 13 September 1965 concerning the extension
of the Organization's site to include French territory;
Considering that the Organization's activities are increasingly extending into the
territory of all the States Parties to the Convention, with a consequent substantial
increase in the mobility of persons and goods assigned to and used for its research
programmes;
Desiring to ensure the efficient performance of the Organization's functions assigned
to it by the Convention, in particular Article II defining the Organization's purposes, and to guarantee it equal treatment on the
territory of all the States Parties to the Convention;
Having resolved to this end, in accordance with Article IX of the Convention, to grant to the Organization the privileges and immunities necessary for the exercise
of its official activities;
Have agreed as follows: