# Council Decision of 19 May 2014 on the signing, on behalf of the European Union, and provisional application of the Protocol            setting out the fishing opportunities and financial contribution provided for in the Fisheries Partnership Agreement between            the European Union and the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe (2014/334/EU)         

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# Council Decision

# of 19 May 2014

# on the signing, on behalf of the European Union, and provisional application of the Protocol setting out the fishing opportunities                        and financial contribution provided for in the Fisheries Partnership Agreement between the European Union and the Democratic                        Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe                     

# (2014/334/EU)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Article 43, in conjunction with Article                           218(5) thereof,                        

Having regard to the proposal from the European Commission,

Whereas:

(1)On 23 July 2007, the Council approved the Fisheries Partnership Agreement between the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and                              Príncipe and the European Community (the ‘Partnership Agreement’) by adopting Regulation (EC) No 894/2007(1).

(2)The application of the latest Protocol(2) setting out the fishing opportunities and financial contribution provided for in the Partnership Agreement expired on 12                              May 2014.

(3)The Union negotiated with São Tomé and Príncipe a new Protocol, for a period of four years, granting Union vessels fishing                              opportunities in the waters over which the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe has sovereignty or jurisdiction in                              respect of fisheries. At the end of those negotiations, a new Protocol was initialled on 19 December 2013.

(4)In order to guarantee the continuity of fishing activities by Union vessels, provision is made for the new Protocol to apply                              provisionally, pending completion of the procedures necessary for its conclusion. This provisional application will take effect                              from the date of its signature, but not before the date of expiry of the latest Protocol.

(5)The new Protocol should be signed,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

# Article 1U.K.

The signing, on behalf of the Union, of the Protocol setting out the fishing opportunities and financial contribution provided                     for in the Fisheries Partnership Agreement between the European Union and the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe                     (the ‘Protocol’) is hereby authorised, subject to the conclusion of the Protocol.                  

The text of the Protocol is attached to this Decision.

# Article 2U.K.

The President of the Council is hereby authorised to designate the person(s) empowered to sign the Protocol on behalf of the                     Union.                  

# Article 3U.K.

The Protocol shall be applied provisionally, in accordance with Article 14 thereof, from the date of its signature(3), and from 13 May 2014 at the earliest, pending completion of the procedures necessary for its conclusion.                  

# Article 4U.K.

This Decision shall enter into force on the date of its adoption.

Done at Brussels, 19 May 2014.

*For the Council*                            

*The President*                            

A. Tsaftaris                            

1

Council Regulation (EC) No 894/2007 of 23 July 2007 on the conclusion of a Fisheries Partnership Agreement between the Democratic                              Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe and the European Community (OJ L 205, 7.8.2007, p. 35).                           

2

Protocol setting out the fishing opportunities and financial contribution provided for in the Fisheries Partnership Agreement                              between the European Union and the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe (OJ L 136, 24.5.2011, p. 5).                           

3

The date of signature of the Protocol will be published in the *Official Journal of the European Union* by the General Secretariat of the Council.