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19.6.2012 Official
Journal
of
the
European
Union L
158/1
II
(Non-legislative acts)
INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS
COUNCIL DECISION
of 7 June 2012
on the position to be taken by the European Union within the Food Aid Committee as regards the
extension of the Food Aid Convention, 1999
(2012/311/EU)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
(6)
At the 105th session of the Food Aid Committee on
30 November 2011, Parties to the FAC agreed that an
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European
overlap with the new Food Assistance Convention should
Union, and in particular Article 214(4), in conjunction with
be avoided and that a six-month gap was preferable to an
Article 218(9) thereof,
extension of the FAC.
Having regard to the proposal from the European Commission,
(7) The
European
Commission,
which
represents
the
European Union in the Food Aid Committee, should
therefore be authorised to oppose a consensus in the
Whereas:
Food Aid Committee favouring an extension,
(1) The
Food
Aid
Convention
1999
(FAC)
was
concluded
by HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
the European Community by Council Decision
2000/421/EC ( 1 ), and extended by various decisions of
Article 1
the Food Aid Committee.
The position of the European Union within the Food Aid
Committee shall be to oppose a consensus in the Food Aid
(2) The
current
FAC
expires
on
30
June
2012
and
the
question of its possible extension will be addressed in
Committee, pursuant to Rule 13 of the Rules of Procedure of
the session of the Food Aid Committee in June 2012.
the Food Aid Committee, favouring an extension of the Food

Aid Convention.
(3) Pursuant
to
Article
XXV(b)
of
the
FAC,
its
extension
is
conditional upon the Grains Trade Convention 1995
Article 2
remaining in force. On 6 June 2011, the International
The Commission is hereby authorised to express this position
Grains Council decided to extend the Grains Trade
within the Food Aid Committee.
Convention 1995 until 30 June 2013.
Article 3
(4)
At the 103rd session of the Food Aid Committee on
14 December 2010, its members agreed to begin the
This Decision shall enter into force on the day of its adoption.
formal process of renegotiating the FAC with a series
of negotiation sessions.
Done at Luxembourg, 7 June 2012.
(5) As
the
new
Food
Assistance
Convention,
which
will
succeed the FAC, enters into force only on 1 January
For the Council
2013, there is a gap of six months between the expiry
of the FAC and the entry into force of the new Food
The President
Assistance Convention.
M. BDSKOV
( 1 ) OJ L 163, 4.7.2000, p. 37.

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