CHAPTER VII-GENERAL PROVISIONS
ARTICLE 18
Privileges, immunities and facilities shall be granted to officials and other servants of the Communities solely in the interest of the Communities.
Each institution of the Communities shall be required to waive the immunity granted to an official or other servant wherever that institution considers that the waiver of such immunity is not contrary to the interests of the Communities.
ARTICLE 19
The institutions of the Communities shall, for the purpose of applying this Protocol, act in concert with the responsible authorities of the Member States concerned.
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ARTICLE 20
Articles 12 to 15 inclusive and Article 18 shall apply to members of the Commission.
ARTICLE 21
Articles 12 to 15 inclusive and Article 18 shall apply to the Judges, the Advocates-General, the Registrar and the Assistant Rapporteurs of the Couri of Justice, without prejudice to the provisions of Article 3 of the Protocols on the Statute of the Court of Justice concerning immunity from legal proceedings of Judges and Advocates-General.
ARTICLE 22
This Protocol shall equally apply to the European Investment Bank, to the members of its organs, to its staff and to the representatives of the Member States taking part in its activities, without prejudice to the provisions of the Protocol on the Bank's Statute.
The European Investment Bank shall in addition be exempt from any form of taxation or imposition of a like nature on the occasion of any capital increase and from the various formalities which may be connected therewith in the State where the Bank has its headquarters. Similarly, its dissolution and its liquidation shall not give rise to the levying of any imposition. Finally, the activities of the Bank and of his organs carried on in accordance with its Statute, shall not be subjected to any turn-over tax.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned Plenipotentiaries have placed their signatures at the end of this Protocol.
Done at Brussels, on the cighth day of April in the year one thousand nine- hundred and sixty-five.
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Paul-Henri Spaak
Kurt SCIMÜCKER
Maurice COUVE de MURVILLE Amintore FANFANT
Pierre WERNER
J. M. A. H. LUNS
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