the Agreement of Association, and which are part of the Turkish development plan, may be submitted by the Turkish State and by Turkish undertakings to the European Investment Bank, which shall inform them of the action taken thereon.Article 2Projects for which requests are approved shall be financed by loans. These loans may be contracted up to a total of 175 million units of account, which may be committed in the five years following the entry into force of this Agreement.Article 3Requests for financing submitted by Turkish undertakings shall not be approved without the agreement of the Turkish Government.Article 41. Loans shall be granted on the basis of the economic features of the projects which they are to finance.2. Loans, especially those for investment projects the return on which is indirect or long term, may be made on special terms such as reduced rates of interest, extended repayment periods, interest-free periods and, where appropriate, any other special repayment terms which may facilitate the servicing of such loans by Turkey.3. Any loan granted to an undertaking or to an authority other than the Turkish State shall be subject to a guarantee from the Turkish State.Article 51. The Bank may make the granting of these loans subject to public invitation to tender or other tendering procedures. Participation in such public invitations to tender or other tendering procedures shall be open on equal terms to all natural and legal persons who are nationals of Turkey or of Member States of the Community.2. Loans may be used to cover expenditure on imports or domestic expenditure, where such expenditure is necessary for carrying out approved investment projects.3. The Bank shall ensure that the funds are used in the most judicious manner and in accordance with the objectives of this Agreement.Article 6Turkey undertakes to allow recipients of these loans to obtain the currency necessary for the repayment of the loans and of interest thereon.Article 7Assistance provided under this Protocol for carrying out certain projects may take the form of participation in financing operations in which, in particular, third countries, international finance organizations or credit and development authorities and institutions of Turkey or of Member States of the Community may be concerned.Article 8Aid to Turkish economic and social development under the conditions set out in this Agreement and in this Protocol shall be supplementary to the endeavours of the Turkish State.Article 9This Protocol shall be annexed to this Agreement.In witness whereof, the undersigned Plenipotentiaries have signed this Agreement.Done at Ankara this twelfth day of September in the year one thousand nine hundred and sixty-three.For His Majesty the King of the Belgians,For the President of the Federal Republic of Germany,For the President of the French Republic,For the President of the Italian Republic,For Her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess of Luxembourg,For Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands.FINAL ACTThe Plenipotentiaries ofHis Majesty the King of the Belgians,The President of the Federal Republic of Germany,The President of the French Republic,The President of the Italian Republic,Her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess of Luxembourg,Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands, andThe Council of the European Economic Community,of the one part, andThe President of the Republic of Turkey,of the other partmeeting at Ankara, on the twelfth day of September in the year one thousand nine hundred and sixty three,for the signature of the Agreement establishing an Association between the European Economic Community and Turkey,have adopted the following texts:Agreement establishing an Association between the European Economic Community and Turkey and the Protocol listed below:Protocol No 1: Provisional ProtocolProtocol No 2: Financial ProtocolThe Plenipotentiaries have furthermore:- adopted the Declarations which are listed below and annexed to this Act (Annex I):1. Declaration of Intent on dried grapes, in connection with Article 2 of the Provisional Protocol,2. Interpretative Declaration on the value of the unit of account referred to in Article 2 of the Financial Protocol,3. Interpretative Declaration on the definition of 'Contracting Parties' used in the Agreement of Association,- and taken note of the Declarations of the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany which are listed below and annexed to this Act (Annex II):1. Declaration on the definition of the expression 'German national',2. Declaration on the application of the Agreement to Berlin.The Plenipotentiaries have agreed that the Declarations annexed to this Act shall be subjected, in the same manner as for the Agreement establishing an Association between the European Economic Community and Turkey, to any procedures that may be necessary to ensure their validity.In witness whereof, the undersigned Plenipotentiaries have signed this Final Act.Done at Ankara, on the twelfth day of September in the year one thousand nine hundred and sixty-three.For His Majesty the King of the Belgians,For the President of the Federal Republic of Germany,For the President of the French Republic,For the President of the Italian Republic,For Her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess of Luxembourg,For Her Majesty the Queen of the