2000/630/EC: Council Decision of 28 September 2000 concerning the conclusion of an Agreement between the European Community and Malta adopting the terms and conditions for the participation of Malta in Community programmes in the fields of training, education and youth
Date: 2000-09-28
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: EU programme, Malta, agreement (EU), education, vocational training, young person

L 267/46

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

20.10.2000

II

(Acts whose publication is not obligatory)

COUNCIL

COUNCIL DECISION

of 28 September 2000

concerning the conclusion of an Agreement between the European Community and Malta adopting
the terms and conditions for the participation of Malta in Community programmes in the fields of
training, education and youth

(2000/630/EC)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
in
Community, and in particular Articles 149 and 150,
conjunction with Article 300(2) and (3), first subparagraph
thereof,

has negotiated, on behalf of the Community, an agree-
ment
in these
programmes.

to participate

enable Malta

to

(4)

This Agreement should be approved,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (1),

Article 1

The Agreement between the European Community and Malta
adopting the terms and conditions for the participation of
Malta in Community programmes in the fields of training,
education and youth is hereby approved on behalf of the
Community.

The text of the Agreement is attached to this Decision.

Article 2

The President of the Council is hereby authorised to appoint
the person(s) empowered to sign the Agreement in order to
bind the Community.

Article 3

The President of
the
Community, give the notifications provided for in Article 4 of
the Agreement.

shall, on behalf of

the Council

Done at Brussels, 28 September 2000.

For the Council
The President

D. VAILLANT

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

The participation of Malta in Community programmes is
an important element of the pre-accession strategy for
Malta as set out in Council Regulation (EC) No 555/
2000 of 13 March 2000 on the implementation of
operations
the pre-accession
strategy for the Republic of Cyprus and the Republic of
Malta (2).

in the framework of

Council Decision 1999/382/EC of 26 April 1999 estab-
lishing the second phase of the Community vocational
training action programme ‘Leonardo da Vinci’ (3), and
in particular Article 10 thereof, Decision No 253/
2000/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council
of 24 January 2000 establishing the second phase of the
Communiy action programme in the field of education
‘Socrates’ (4), and in particular Article 12 thereof, and
Decision No 1031/2000/EC of the European Parliament
and of the Council of 13 April 2000 establishing the
‘Youth’ Community action programme (5), and in partic-
ular Article 11 thereof, provide that these programmes
are to be open to the participation of Malta.

(3)

In conformity with the negotiating guidelines adopted
by the Council on 14 February 2000, the Commission

(1) Opinion delivered on 6 September 2000 (not yet published in the

Official Journal).

(2) OJ L 68, 16.3.2000, p. 3.
(3) OJ L 146, 11.6.1999, p. 33.
(4) OJ L 28, 3.2.2000, p. 1.
(5) OJ L 117, 18.5.2000, p. 1.