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on the signing, on behalf of the European Union and its Member States, and provisional application of a Protocol to the Euro-Mediterranean Agreement establishing an association between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the State of Israel, of the other part, to take account of the accession of the Republic of Croatia to the European Union

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

The Euro-Mediterranean Agreement establishing an Association between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the State of Israel, of the other part, was signed in Brussels on 20 November 1995. The Agreement entered into force on 1 June 2000.

In its Act of Accession, the Republic of Croatia undertakes to accede to the international agreements already signed or concluded by the European Union and its Member States by means of a protocol to those agreements.

The attached proposal constitutes the legal instrument for the signing and provisional application of the Protocol to the Agreement, to take account of the accession of the Republic of Croatia to the European Union.

The proposed Protocol incorporates the Republic of Croatia as a contracting party to the Agreement and commits the Union to providing an authentic version of the Agreement in Croatian.

By its Decision of 14 September 2012, the Council authorised the Commission to open negotiations with the third countries concerned, in order to conclude the relevant protocols. The negotiations with the State of Israel were successfully concluded on 28 September 2017.

The Commission judges the results of the negotiations to be satisfactory and requests the Council to adopt the attached Decision on the signing and provisional application of the Protocol.

In accordance with EU policy, in particular the Council Conclusions of 10 December 2012, this Protocol shall not apply to the geographic areas that came under the administration of the State of Israel after 5 June 1967.

2018/0075 (NLE)

Proposal for a

COUNCIL DECISION

on the signing, on behalf of the European Union and its Member States,

and provisional application of a Protocol to the Euro-Mediterranean Agreement

establishing an association between the European Communities

and their Member States, of the one part, and the State of Israel, 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 on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Article 217, in conjunction with Article 218(5) thereof,

Having regard to the Act of Accession of the Republic of Croatia, and in particular Article 6(2) thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the European Commission,

Whereas:

(1)The Euro-Mediterranean Agreement establishing an ssociation between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the State of Israel, of the other part (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Agreement’), was signed in Brussels on 20 November 1995. The Agreement entered into force on 1 June 2000.
EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

1.CONTEXT OF THE PROPOSAL

•Reasons for and objectives of the proposal

Council Regulation (EU) 2017/1939 implementing enhanced cooperation on the establishment of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (‘EPPO’) was adopted on 12 October 2017 and entered into force on 20 November 2017. In accordance with Article 20 of that Regulation, the Commission is responsible for the establishment and initial administrative operation of the EPPO, until the EPPO has the capacity to implement its own budget. The Commission is undertaking all necessary efforts to ensure a swift setting up of the EPPO. In line with Article 120 of the Regulation and following a build-up phase of three years, the Commission aims at having the EPPO operational by the end of 2020.

A key aspect in getting the EPPO up and running concerns the selection and appointment of its staff, in particular the European Chief Prosecutor and European Prosecutors. In order to select the European Chief Prosecutor and European Prosecutors of the EPPO, Article 14(3) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1939 provides that the Council shall establish the selection panel’s operating rules and shall adopt a decision appointing its members on a proposal from the Commission. For this purpose, the Commission adopted a proposal for a Council Implementing Decision with an Annex establishing the selection panels’ operating rules on 25 May 2018.

In order to establish the selection panel provided for in Article 14(3) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1939, the Commission proposes a Council Implementing Decision for the appointment of the members of the panel. In accordance with Article 14(3) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1939, the Commission proposes twelve members for the selection panel, chosen from among former members of the Court of Justice and the Court of Auditors, former national members of Eurojust, members of national supreme courts, high level prosecutors and lawyers of recognised competence. One of the persons chosen was proposed by the European Parliament on 31 May 2018. The Commission has taken into account the need to ensure balance in terms of geographical distribution, gender and knowledge of legal systems of the Member States participating in the EPPO.
on the position to be adopted, on behalf of the European Union, within the EEA Joint Committee concerning an amendment to Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement, on cooperation in specific fields outside the four freedoms (Budget line 12.02.01 - Financial services)

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

1.CONTEXT OF THE PROPOSAL

•Reasons for and objectives of the proposal

In order to ensure the requisite of legal security and homogeneity of the Internal Market, the EEA Joint Committee is to integrate all the relevant EU legislation into the EEA Agreement as soon as possible after its adoption and also allow for the participation of the EEA EFTA States in EEA relevant EU actions or programmes.

The draft Decision of the EEA Joint Committee (annexed to the proposed Council Decision) aims to amend Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement on “cooperation in specific fields outside the four freedoms”. This is necessary to allow the EEA EFTA States to participate to Union’s programmes and actions funded from European budget lines. In the present case, the purpose of this amendment is to allow the EEA EFTA States (Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein) to participate in the Union actions related to the Budget line 12 02 01: “Implementation and development of the single market for financial services”, entered into the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2019.

•Consistency with existing policy provisions in the policy area

The annexed draft Joint Committee Decision is fully consistent with the aim of the EEA Agreement to promote a continuous and balanced strengthening of trade and economic relations between the Contracting Parties with equal conditions of competition, and the respect of the same rules, with a view to creating a homogeneous European Economic Area.

•Consistency with other Union policies

The Joint Committee Decision is also consistent with other Union policies, particularly through the aim to protect homogeneity of the EU Internal Market.

2.LEGAL BASIS, SUBSIDIARITY AND PROPORTIONALITY

•Legal basis

The substantial legal basis for this Coucnil proposal is Article 114 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, in conjunction with Article 218(9) thereof.

The procedural legal basis is Article 1(3) of Council Regulation (EC) No 2894/94 concerning arrangements for implementing the EEA Agreement, which foresees that the Council establishes the position to be adopted on the Union’s behalf on such Decisions, on a proposal from the Commission.

•Subsidiarity (for non-exclusive competence)

The proposal complies with the subsidiarity principle for the following reason.

The objective of this proposal, namely to ensure the homogeneity of the Internal Market, cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States and can therefore, by reason of the effects, be better achieved at Union level.

•Proportionality

In accordance with the principle of proportionality, the proposal does not go beyond what is necessary in order to achieve its objective – to ensure the homogeneity of the Internal Market.

•Choice of the instrument
EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

The present recommendation concerns a decision authorising the Commission to engage on behalf of the Union in the negotiations to partially review the International Cocoa Agreement (“ICA”) that the International Cocoa Council (“ICC”) decided to launch, under the guidance of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).

1.CONTEXT OF THE PROPOSAL

Review of the International Cocoa Agreement 2010

The European Union is a party to the ICA.

The ICA aims to ensure enhanced international cooperation in connection with world cocoa matters and related issues, provide a forum for intergovernmental consultations on cocoa and on ways to improve the world cocoa economy, to facilitate trade by collecting and providing information on the world cocoa market and to encourage increased demand for cocoa.

The ICA provisionally entered into force on 1 October 2012 for a period of ten years until 30 September 2022.

According to Article 7 of the ICA, the ICC is the responsible body for the performance of all functions necessary to carry out the provisions of the ICA. Article 12 of the ICA stipulates that all decisions of the ICC shall be taken in principle by consensus unless stipulated otherwise in the ICA. In the absence of consensus, decisions shall be made by a special vote.

According to Article 10 of the ICA, Members to the International Cocoa Organization (ICCO) hold 2000 votes in total. Each Member to the ICCO holds a specified number of votes, which is annually adjusted following predefined criteria in the ICA. The Agreement and especially the distribution of votes among Members also determine a Member's contribution. Currently, the Union is the largest contributor to the ICCO budget by far.

The ICC opened negotiations in order to be able to decide on a possible extension of the validity of the ICA before the current deadline. These negotiations will be the right opportunity to review partially the ICA focusing on its modernisation and simplification.

The Commission guidelines to recommended changes are set out in the Annex.

Bringing reform to the ICA to further align it with the practices the Union fosters in other international commodity boards, as well as with developments in the global cocoa market since 2010, is clearly in the interest of the Union. This has been regularly outlined during the last ICC sessions in 2019-2020 where EU Member States also participated.

The overall purpose of the ICA as outlined in Article 1 of the Agreement is not intended to change.

Two main changes are to be proposed in the revised ICA:
EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

1.CONTEXT OF THE PROPOSAL

•Reasons for and objectives of the proposal

On 1 January 2022, Regulation (EU) 2018/848 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2018 on organic production and labelling of organic products and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 834/2007 became applicable. This brought about a change as concerns pet food. Before 1 January 2022, pet food, in particular for cats and dogs, could be labelled as organic where not all agricultural ingredients were organic because Member States could lay down national rules or, in the absence thereof, accept or recognise private standards. However, since 1 January 2022, pet food can no longer be labelled as organic because Regulation (EU) 2018/848, while covering the labelling of feed for farm animals like hay and silage, does not establish specific rules for the labelling of pet food.

Regulation (EU) 2018/848 applies both to feed for food-producing animals and to feed for pets, i.e. pet food. Under that Regulation, while non-organic ingredients of agricultural origin are authorised in the production of organic feed, a term referring to organic production cannot be used in the sales description where not all agricultural ingredients are organic. Moreover, such feed cannot bear the organic production logo of the European Union. Consequently, final consumers are not directly informed about the compliance of the product with organic production rules.

On the one hand, professional operators are informed about the composition and the proportion of organic, in-conversion and non-organic compounds in feed in accordance with point 2.1.2 of Annex III to Regulation (EU) 2018/848. On the other hand, when feed is sold directly at retail level to final consumers, there are currently no rules concerning the provision of information on the organic compounds in the feed where not all agricultural ingredients are organic. Moreover, the labels of food and pet food are intended for the same customers: pet food and food (including prepacked food) are both sold at retail level to final consumers.

Against this background, the purpose of this proposal is to establish specific labelling rules for pet food. These rules will allow pet food, in particular for cats and dogs, to bear the organic production logo of the European Union. Moreover, the organic production logo of the European Union will be mandatory for prepacked pet food labelled as organic.

The proposal will support the small but growing organic pet food sector by allowing producers to use the organic production logo of the European Union when promoting their products. In addition, the proposal will contribute to the development of organic agriculture via the possibility of creating added value for organic by-products that may be used in the production of pet food. This is in accordance with the Green Deal, the Farm to Fork and Biodiversity strategies, the Action Plan for the Development of Organic Production, and the target of achieving 25% of EU agricultural land under organic farming by 2030.
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européenne etdelaCommunauté européenne del'énergieatomique(JOL43du15.2.1983,
p.1),telquemodifiéparlerèglement(CE,Euratom)n°1700/2003du22septembre2003
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Wirtschaftsgemeinschaft undderEuropäischen Atomgemeinschaft (ABI.L43vom15.2.1983,
S.1),geändertdurchdieVerordnung (EG,Euratom)Nr.1700/2003vom22.September2003
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COMMISSION COMMUNICATION' TOTHECOUNCIL
CONCERNING EMERGENCY FOODAID
FORTHEREFUGEES INSOMALIA
.THROUGH THEUNHCR
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1.Explanatory memorandum
TheUNHCRhasrequestedthattheCommunitygrantemergencyfoodaid
intheformof1000tofsugarfortherefugeesinSomalia.
DespiteadropinthenumberofrefugeesinSomalia,therearestill
about700000peopleintherefugeecampsandtheirfoodsupply
situationisstillamatterforconcern.
Therefugees'foodrequirements forthefirstquarterof1982have
notyetbeencovered,particularly inthecaseofsugar,stocksof
'whichareduetorunoutinthenextfewweeks.
2.Proposal
ItisproposedthattheCommission takethemeasuresrequiredto
allocateemergencyfoodaidof1000tofsugartotheUNHCRforits
workinSomalia.
The1000tofsugarwillbedistributed freeofchargeintherefugee
campsandwillcoverthe700000refugees'sugarrequirements for
aboutonemonth.Itwillbedelivered C1Fportofunloading.
Giventheurgencyoftheserequirements ,theaidmayhavetobemobilized
ontheworldmarket.
3.Financing
Thisaidwillbechargedagainstitem9.2.2.1ofAmendingBudget
n°1/1981,adoptedon17September,whichmakesprovisionfortheallo­
cationof1000tofsugarasfoodaidtotheUNHCR.
./.

Thecostoftheoperation,whichc«nbeestimatedat0.40millionECU
atworldpricesand0.60millionECUatinternalprices,doesnot
involveanyexpenditurefortheCommunityoverandabovethatalready
approvedinAmendingBudgetNo1/1981.
Conclusion
Inconclusion,theCommissionrequeststhattheCouncilgiveits
agreementtotheoperationdescribedabove.
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p.1),telquemodifiéparlerèglement(CE,Euratom)n°1700/2003du22septembre2003
(JOL243du27.9.2003,p.1),cedossierestouvertaupublic.Lecaséchéant,lesdocuments
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CommunityandtheEuropeanAtomicEnergyCommunity(OJL43,15.2.1983,p.1),as
amendedbyRegulation(EC,Euratom)No1700/2003of22September2003(OJL243,
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filehavebeendeclassified inconformitywithArticle5oftheaforementioned regulation.
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Februar1983überdieFreigabederhistorischen ArchivederEuropäischen
Wirtschaftsgemeinschaft undderEuropäischen Atomgemeinschaft (ABI.L43vom15.2.1983,
S.1),geändertdurchdieVerordnung(EG,Euratom)Nr.1700/2003vom22.September2003
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2750000ECUfromArticle269(Monitoringapplicationofcertain
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toArticle270(OfficialJournal)
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SinceitconsideredthattheEuropeansteelindustrywasstillinastate
ofmanifestcrisis,theCommission,byDecisionNoI696/82/ECSCof
30June1982^,extendedthemonitoringandproductionquotasystemuntil
30June1983.
Topermitthesecheckstocontinue,theCommissionhadrequestedthe
entryof5millionECUinArticleA.269ofpreliminarydraftsupplementary
andamendingbudgetNo1/1982.Pendingtheadoptionofthisbudget,the
Commissiondecidedtomakeaprovisionaltransferof3millionECUfrom
Article270(OfficialJournal).ThiswasdonebytransferNoIl/l/82
whichwasnotifiedtothebudgetaryauthorityon14July1982andwas
toberepaidassoonastheappropriations wereavailable.
On28JulytheCouncildecidednottoestablishadraftsupplementary and
amendingbudgetNol/82,sothe5millionECUforArticle269requestedin
thepreliminarydraftwasfinallyobtainedbymeansoftransferNo30/82•
AstheneedsofArticle269havesinceincreased,theamounttobe
transferred backhasbeenreducedto2750000ECU.Ifnecessary,the
Commissionwillrestoretheoriginalappropriations inArticle270by
meansofatransferwithinChapter27»
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C0M(82)580final.
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REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE ACP-EC COMMITTEE OF AMBASSADORS on the processing in 1999 of all transfers under the export earnings stabilisation system set up by the Fourth ACP-EC Convention revised by the Agreement signed in Mauritius on 4 November 1995

STABEX (1999 year of application)

Report drawn up by the Commission pursuant to Article 207(4) of the revised Fourth ACP-EC Convention.

Article 207(4) of the revised Fourth ACP-EC Convention states that:

"On 30 September ... the Commission shall report to the Committee of Ambassadors on the progress made with the processing of all transfers".

This report covers transfers in 1999.

For the 1999 year of application 21 ACP States were eligible for 29 transfers under the Stabex arrangements introduced by the revised Fourth ACP-EC Convention.

After consultations under Articles 202 and 203 of the Convention the total amount of eligible transfers is EUR 235 453 535.

Financial resources at the end of June 2000 for the 1999 year of application were as follows:

// EUR

Annual allocation for the 1999 year of application // 360 000 000

Carryover from the 1995 to the 1999 year of application // 271 251 306

Carryover from the 1996 to the 1999 year of application // 286 415 194

Carryover from the 1997 to the 1999 year of application // 306 717 101

Carryover from the 1998 to the 1999 year of application // 285 271 772

Estimated interest at 30 June 2000 // 66 019 805

Total: // 1 575 675 178

This amount covers all transfers for the 1999 year of application. A list of individual transfers adopted by the Commission at 24 July 2000 is attached.

Since consultations are still being held with some ACP States transfers may be adopted at a later date.

By Decision 1/2000 of 27 July 2000 regarding transitional measures valid from 2 August 2000 to the entry into force of the ACP-EC Partnership Agreement [1] the ACP-EC Council of Ministers extended provisions of the Fourth ACP-EC Convention as revised by the Agreement signed in Mauritius on 4 November 1995 for Stabex up to 31 December 2000. In the light of this decision the ACP-EC Committee of Ambassadors decided on 26 September 2000:

[1] OJ L 195, 1 August 2000, p. 46.

-to set up a reserve to finance before 31 December 2000 Stabex transfer decisions for the 1998 and 1999 years of application (EUR 168 million) and to repay the balances under the second Financial Protocol (EUR 72 million under Article 195a of the Convention);

-to gradually transfer the allocation balance from Stabex of over EUR 1.1 billion to the special EDF account to finance programming activities.

ANNEX - STABEX - application year 1999

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