COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION

Brussels, 19.11.2007

SGS7/16652

INSTRUMENT OF ACCEPTANCE

THE PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

HAVING regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 133(5) in conjunction with the first sentence of the first subparagraph of Article 300(2) and the second subparagraph of Article 300(3) thereof,

NOTIFIES by these presents the acceptance, by the European Community, of the Protocol amending the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), done at Geneva on 6 December 2005,

CONFIRMS, in accordance with Article 300(7) of the Treaty establishing the European Community, that the Protocol will be binding on the Member States of the European Union.