accession

From: A Dictionary of Law | Date: 2002| Author: ELIZABETH A. MARTIN | Copyright information

accession n.
1. The formal agreement of a country to an international treaty. The term is applied to the agreement of a country to become a member state of the European Union. Member states ac...

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