MINISTERIE VAN BUITENLANDSE ZAKEN
The Hague, 22 December 2003
Treaties Division
DJZ/VE-1116/03
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs presents its compliments to the Embassy of the Czech
Republic and has the honour to propose, with reference to the Co-operation Agreement
between the Czech Republic and the European Police Office of 5 March 2002 (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 Embassy of the Czech Republic, the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs proposes that this note and the affirmative note of the Embassy
of the Czech Republic shall constitute an Agreement between the Kingdom of the Netherlands
and the Czech Republic, which shall be applied provisionally from the day on which
this affirmative note has been received by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 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 Czech Republic have informed each other
that the formalities required for the entry into force have been complied with.
The Ministry avails itself of this opportunity to renew to the Embassy of the Czech
Republic the assurances of its highest consideration.
Embassy of the Czech Republic
The Hague