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Ratification and enforcement of the following international instruments drawn up on the basis of art.K.3 of the Treaty on European Union : - Convention on the protection of European Communities’ financial interests, done in Brussels on 26 July 1995; - First Protocol done in Dublin on 27 September 1996; - Protocol concerning the preliminary interpretation, by the Court of Justice of the European Communities, of said Convention, with attached declaration, done in Brussels on 29 November 1996; - Convention on the fight against corruption involving officials of the European Communities or officials of Member States of the European Union , done in Brussels on 26 May 1997; and of the OCDE Convention on combating bribery of foreign public officials in international business transactions, with annex, done in Paris on 17 December 1997. Delegation to the government to regulate the administrative responsibility of legal persons and of bodies without legal personality
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