(1) Subsection (1) of section 1 of the Act of 1972 is hereby amended by -

(a) the substitution in paragraph (l) of "13th" for "12th", and

(b) the insertion, in the definition of "the treaties governing the European Communities" after paragraph (p) (inserted by the European Communities (Amendment) Act, 1992) of the following:

"and

(q) the Act amending the Protocol on the Statute of the European Investment Bank, empowering the Board of Governors to establish a European Investment Fund, signed at Brussels on the 25th day of March, 1993, together with the Treaty amending certain provisions of the Protocol on the Statute of the European Investment Bank, signed at Brussels on the 10th day of July, 1975.".

(2) The text of the definition of "the treaties governing the European Communities" in the said section 1, as amended by subsection (1) of this section and by previous amendments, is set out in the Table to this section.

Table

"the treaties governing the European Communities" means -

(a) "the ECSC Treaty", that is to say, the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community, signed at Paris on the 18th day of April, 1951,