De nye medlemsstater skal på de i denne protokol fastsatte vilkår tiltræde de aftaler eller overenskomster, der er indgået eller anvendes foreløbigt af de nuværende medlemsstater sammen med Unionen eller Det Europæiske Atomenergifællesskab, og de af disse medlemsstater indgåede aftaler, der har tilknytning til de nævnte aftaler eller overenskomster.  
The new Member States shall be required to accede, under the conditions laid down in this Protocol, to the agreements or conventions concluded or provisionally applied by the present Member States and the Union or the European Atomic Energy Community, acting jointly, and to the agreements concluded by those States which are related to those agreements or conventions.  