THE GOVERNMENT OF BRUNEI-DARUSSALAM,
THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA,
THE GOVERNMENT OF MALAYSIA,
THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES,
THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE,
THE GOVERNMENT OF THE KINGDOM OF THAILAND, and
THE GOVERNMENT OF THE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM,
of the one part, 
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, 
of the other part,  

HAVING REGARD to the Cooperation Agreement between the European Economic Community and Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand, member. Countries of the Association of South-East Asian Nations signed on 7 March 1980 in Kuala Lumpur, and extended to Brunei Darussalam on 16 November 1984, hereinafter referred to as the "Agreement",

WHEREAS Viet Nam as a new member of the Association of South-East Asian Nations has applied to accede to the Agreement, HAVE DECIDED to extend the Agreement to Viet Nam and this end have designated as their Plenipotentiaries:

THE GOVERNMENT OF BRUNEI-DARUSSALAM:

PRINCE MOHAMED BOLKIAH
Minister of Foreign Affairs

THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA:

ALI ALATAS
Minister for Foreign Affairs

THE GOVERNMENT OF MALAYSIA:

DATUK ABDULLAH HAJI AHMAD BADAWI
Minister of Foreign Affairs

THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES:

DOMINGO L. SIAZON, JR.
Secretary of Foreign Affairs

THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE:

PROFESSOR S. JAYAKUMAR
Minister for Foreign Affairs

THE GOVERNMENT OF THE KINGDOM OF THAILAND:

PRACHUAB CHAIYASAN
Minister of Foreign Affairs

THE GOVERNMENT OF THE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM:

NGUYEN MANH CAM
Minister of Foreign Affairs

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION:

HANS VAN MIERLO
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands,
President-in-Office of the Council of the European Union

MANUEL MARIN
Vice-President of the Commission of the European Communities WHO, having exchanged their full powers, found in good and due form,

Have Agreed as Follows:

ARTICLE 1

Viet Nam accedes to the Agreement by virtue of this Protocol.

ARTICLE 2

The provisions of the Agreement together with the Protocol concerning Article 1 of the Agreement shall apply to Viet Nam.

ARTICLE 3

The application of the Agreement to Viet Nam shall not affect the application of the Cooperation Agreement between the European Community and the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam signed on 17 July 1995 and which entered into force on 1 June 1 996.

ARTICLE 4

This Protocol shall enter into force on the first day of the month following the date on which the Parties have notified each other of the completion of the procedures necessary for this purpose,

ARTICLE 5

This Protocol is drawn up in eleven originals in the Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish languages, each of these texts being equally authentic.

Done at Singapore on the fourteenth day of February in the year one thousand nine hundred and ninety-seven.

For the Government of Brunei-Darussalam

(Sgd.)

For the Government of the Republic of Indonesia

(Sgd.)

For the Government of Malaysia

(Sgd.)

For the Government of the Republic of the Philippines

(Sgd.)

For the Government of the Republic of Singapore

(Sgd.)

For the Government of the Kingdom of Thailand

(Sgd.)

For the Government of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam

(Sgd.)

For the European community