Agreements or contracts concluded between 25 March 1957 and 1 January 1958 or, for acceding States, between the signature of the instrument of accession and the date of their accession, by a person or an undertaking with a third State, an international organisation or a national of a third State shall not, however, be invoked as grounds for failure to implement this Treaty if, in the opinion of the Court of Justice of the European Union, ruling on an application from the Commission, one of the decisive reasons on the part of either of the parties in concluding the agreement or contract was an intention to evade the provisions of this Treaty.
Ach comhaontuithe nó conarthaí a thabharfaidh duine nó gnóthas i gcrích le triú Stát, le heagraíocht idirnáisiúnta nó le náisiúnach de thríú Stát, idir an 25 Márta 1957 agus an 1 Eanáir 1958 nó, i gcás Stát aontach, idir dáta na hionstraime aontachais a shíniú agus dáta a n-aontachais, ní bhainfear leas astu chun gan an Conradh seo a chur i ngníomh más rud é, i dtuairim Chúirt Bhreithiúnais an Aontais Eorpaigh, ag rialú di ar iarratas ón gCoimisiún, gur chun éalú a bheith aige ó fhorálacha an Chonartha seo cúis amháin de na cúiseanna cinntitheacha a bhí a gceachtar páirtí leis an gcomhaontú nó an conradh a thabhairt i gcrích.