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26.2.2013 Official
Journal
of
the
European
Union
L
54/1
II
(Non-legislative acts)
INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS
COUNCIL DECISION
of 14 April 2011
on the signing, on behalf of the European Union, of the Regional Convention on pan-Euro-
Mediterranean preferential rules of origin
(2013/93/EU)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European
Article 1
Union, and in particular the first subparagraph of Article 207(4),
in conjunction with Article 218(5) thereof,
The signing of the Regional Convention on pan-Euro-Mediter
ranean preferential rules of origin is hereby approved on behalf
Having regard to the proposal from the European Commission,
of the European Union, subject to the conclusion of the said
Convention (
Whereas:

1 ).

Article 2
(1) The
Regional
Convention
on
pan-Euro-Mediterranean
preferential rules of origin, hereinafter referred to as
The Declaration set out in the Annex to this Decision is hereby
‘the Convention’, aims at replacing the protocols on
approved on behalf of the European Union.
rules of origin currently in force among the countries
of the pan-Euro-Mediterranean area.
Article 3
(2) The
participants
in
the
Stabilisation
and
Association The President of the Council is hereby authorised to designate
Process have been included in the pan-Euro-Mediter
the person(s) empowered to sign the Convention on behalf of
ranean system of cumulation of origin through the
the European Union subject to its conclusion and to make the
Convention.
Declaration set out in the Annex to this Decision.
(3) On
26
November
2009
the
Council
authorised
the
Article 4
Commission to open negotiations with the EFTA
This Decision shall enter into force on the day of its adoption.
States, the participants in the Barcelona Process, the
participants in the Stabilisation and Association Process
and the Faroe Islands on the Convention.
Done at Luxembourg, 14 April 2011.
(4)
On 9 December 2009 the text of the Convention was
endorsed by the Euromed Trade Ministers at their
Conference held in Brussels.
For the Council
(5) The Convention should be signed and the attached
The President
Declaration be approved,
FAZEKAS S.
( 1 ) The text of the Convention will be published together with the
Decision on its conclusion.

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DECLARATION
The European Union states that the reference to Kosovo prejudges neither the European Union Member
States’ position nor any European Union position on the status of Kosovo nor the European Union Member
States’ right to determine their relations with Kosovo.

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