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The legal security legitimately claimed by other States which may become
party to the future treaty resides in the fact that the EEC must become a
party alongside its Member States. This is the means of providing the
ecurity to other partles that the otol
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future obligations arising out of the treaty.
Yout the
In addition, this combined participation strengthens the guarantees that
the agreement will be implemented and increases the number of parties to
whom a third party can address itself. It therefore does not only
accomodate the legal constraints which exist within the EEC but it
provides at the sames time an advantage to those parties who wish to
establish relations in this field with the economies which together
constitute the European Communites.
In accordance with Article 228 paragraph 2 of the Treaty of Rome, an
agreement between the Community and one or more States is binding on the
Institutions of the Community and on the Member States. Therefore, if
there is any obligation which needs to be implemented by the Member
States in respect of an agreement concluded by the Community Member
States will be bound as a direct result of the Treaty of Rome. Under
this Treaty, the Commission and the European Court of Justice have the
ability to ensure that Member States do indeed honour the obligations
thereby falling on them.
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