# Council Decision (EU) 2015/1892Show full title

Council Decision (EU) 2015/1892 of 18 February 2014 approving the conclusion, by the European Commission, on behalf of the            European Atomic Energy Community, of the Protocol to the Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the European Communities            and their Member States, of the one part, and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, of the other part, to take account            of the accession of the Republic of Croatia to the European Union         

        - Previous
        - Next

U.K.

# Council Decision (EU) 2015/1892                     

# of 18 February 2014

# approving the conclusion, by the European Commission, on behalf of the European Atomic Energy Community, of the Protocol to                        the Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and                        the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, of the other part, to take account of the accession of the Republic of Croatia                        to the European Union                     

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community, and in particular the second paragraph of Article                           101 thereof,                        

Having regard to the recommendation from the European Commission,

Whereas:

(1)On 24 September 2012, the Council authorised the Commission to open negotiations with the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia                              in order to conclude a Protocol to the Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the European Communities and their                              Member States, of the one part, and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, of the other part, to take account of the accession                              of the Republic of Croatia to the European Union (‘the Protocol’).

(2)Those negotiations were successfully completed and the Protocol was approved by the Government of the former Yugoslav Republic                              of Macedonia, through an exchange of letters on 25 October 2013.

(3)The conclusion, by the Commission, of the Protocol should be approved as regards matters falling within the competence of                              the European Atomic Energy Community.

(4)The signature and conclusion of the Protocol are subject to a separate procedure as regards matters falling within the competence                              of the Union and its Member States,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

# Article 1U.K.

The conclusion by the European Commission, on behalf of the European Atomic Energy Community, of the Protocol to the Stabilisation                     and Association Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the former Yugoslav                     Republic of Macedonia, of the other part, to take account of the accession of the Republic of Croatia to the European Union                     is hereby approved.                  

The text of the Protocol is attached to the Decision on its signature.

# Article 2U.K.

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

Done at Brussels, 18 February 2014.

*For the Council*                            

*The President*                            

I. STOURNARAS