The following bilateral agreements concluded between the State and the United Kingdom have entered into force since September 1999: — agreement between the two Governments — British/Irish Agreement — Belfast, 10 April 1998, entered into force on 2 December 1999; — agreement establishing a British-Irish Council, Dublin, 8 March 1999, entered into force on 2 December 1999; — agreement establishing a British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference, Dublin, 8 March 1999, entered into force on 2 December 1999 — agreement establishing implementation bodies, Dublin, 8 March 1999, entered into force on 2 December, 1999; — agreement establishing a North-South Ministerial Council, Dublin, 8 March 1999, entered into force on 2 December 1999; — exchange of letters, dated 18 June 1999, constituting an agreement supplementary to the agreement between the two Governments establishing implementation bodies, Dublin, 8 March 1999, entered into force on 2 December 1999; — exchange of letters, dated 27 September 2000 and 10 October 2000 amending the agreement between the two Governments concerning the International Fund for Ireland, entered into force on 10 October 2000; — exchange of notes dated 18 October 2001 and 31 October 2001 constituting an agreement pursuant to Article 83 paragraph 3 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea 1982 on the provisional delimitation of an area of the continental shelf, entered into force on 31 October 2001; — exchange of notes dated 19 November 2002 concerning certain decisions of the North-South Ministerial Council and related matters, entered into force on 3 December 2002; — agreement on police co-operation, Belfast, 29 April 2002, entered into force on 20 December 2002; — agreement establishing the Independent Monitoring Commission, Dublin, 25 November 2003, entered into force on 7 January 2004; — agreement on the early notification of a nuclear accident or incident of radiological significance and the exchange of information concerning the operation and management of nuclear facilities or activities, Dublin, 10 December 2004, entered into force on 10 December 2004.
In accordance with the requirements of Article 29.5.1° of Bunreacht na hÉireann, all of these agreements have been laid before Dáil Éireann following their entry into force. In addition, for the convenience of the public, they have also been published in the Irish treaty series by my Department and have been made available on the Department's website, www.dfa.ie/treaties.
In addition to the foregoing treaties, I am aware of a further two bilateral agreements concluded with the United Kingdom that have been signed on behalf of Ireland but that have not yet entered into force. These are the convention on social security, signed in Dublin on 14 December 2004 and the agreement relating to the transmission of natural gas by a second pipeline between Ireland and the United Kingdom, and through a connection to the Isle of Man, signed at Gormanstown on 24 September 2004. Both agreements are expected to enter into force shortly.