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PROTOCOL TO AMEND THE FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT ON ENCHANCING ASEAN ECONOMIC
COOPERATION
The Sultan of Brunei Darussalam, the President of the Republic of Indonesia,the Prime Minister of Malaysia, the President of
the Republic of the Philippines, the Prime Minister of the Republic of
Singapore and the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Thailand;
RECALLING the Framework Agreement on Enhancing ASEAN Economic Cooperation
("the Agreement") signed on 28 January 1992 at the Fourth Summit Meeting
held in
DESIRING to expedite the implementation of the Common Effective
Preferential Tariff (CEPT) Scheme for the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA);
NOTING that Article 1 2A of tile Agreement provides for amendments to it;
HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS:
ARTICLE 1
Article 2, section A, paragraph 1 of the
Agreement shall be amended by deleting the expression "l5 years" and
substituting it with the expression "l0 years (beginning I January
1993)".
ARTICLE 2
The following shall be inserted after Article 1 2 as a new Article 1 2A
to the Agreement:
"Accession of New Members
New Members of ASEAN shall accede to the Agreement oil terms and
conditions consistent with it and which have been agreed between them and the
existing Members of ASEAN.".
ARTICLE 3
This Protocol shall enter into force upon the deposit of instruments of
ratification or acceptance by all signatory governments with the
Secretary-General of ASEAN which shall be done not later than 1 January 1996.
This Protocol shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of ASEAN, who
shall promptly furnish a certified copy thereof to each Member Country.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have signed the Protocol to Amend the
Framework Agreement on Enhancing ASEAN Economic Cooperation.
DONE at