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COUNCIL

No C 241/1

MWS

34311

OCT1900

RESOLUTION

OF THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE MEMBER STATES OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, MEETING WITHIN THE COUNCIL

of 23 June 1981

THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE MEMBER STATES OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, MEETING WITHIN THE COUNCIL,

recalling that the Heads of Governments meeting in Paris on 9 and 10 December 1974 requested that the possibility of creating a Passport Union and, in advance, the intro- duction of a uniform passport, be examined and that the European Council, meeting in Rome on 3 and 4 December 1975, agreed on the basis of the report submitted to it to introduce a passport of uniform design,

anxious to promote any measures which might strengthen the feeling among nationals of the Member States that they belong to the same Community,

considering that the establishment of such a passport is likely to facilitate the movement of nationals of the Member States,

have drawn up a passport of which the uniform format and scope are described in Annexes I and II respectively, which form an integral part of this resolution,

have resolved that the Member States will endeavour to issue the passport by 1 January 1985 at the latest.