Remove the last barrier to the European Union's coming into effect shortly afterwards
The Edinburgh Agreement allowed Denmark, whose referendum had voted against ratifying the 1992 Maastricht Agreement which established the European Union, to achieve enough exceptions to the requirements of the Agreement to persuade its citizens to vote to ratify it. Scotland was not involved in the Good Friday Agreement, and legislation to set up the Scottish Government (then known as the Scottish Executive) was passed in 1998.