2000/770/EC: Decision by the Representatives of the Governments of the Member States, meeting within the Council, of 3 October 2000 on the provisional application of the Internal Agreement between Representatives of the Member States, meeting within the Council, on the financing and administration of Community Aid under the Financial Protocol to the Partnership Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Community and its Member States signed in Cotonou (Benin) on 23 June 2000 and the allocation of financial assistance for the Overseas Countries and Territories to which part Four of the EC Treaty applies
Date: 2000-10-03
Institutions: Representatives of the Governments of the Member States
Subjects: ACP countries, EU Member State, EU aid, agreement (EU), cooperation agreement (EU), financial aid

L 317/354

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

15.12.2000

DECISION BY THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE MEMBER STATES,
MEETING WITHIN THE COUNCIL,

of 3 October 2000

on the provisional application of the Internal Agreement between Representatives of the Member
States, meeting within the Council, on the financing and administration of Community Aid under
the Financial Protocol to the Partnership Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific
States and the European Community and its Member States signed in Cotonou (Benin) on 23 June
2000 and the allocation of financial assistance for the Overseas Countries and Territories to which
part Four of the EC Treaty applies

(2000/770/EC)

THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE MEMBER
STATES OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY, MEETING WITHIN THE
COUNCIL,

This Agreement will not enter into force before adoption
by each Member State in accordance with its own
constitutional requirements.

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Com-
munity,

Having regard to the ACP-EC Partnership signed in Cotonou
(Benin) on 23 June 2000, hereafter referred to as the ‘ACP-EC
Agreement’,

(6) Certain provisions of the Internal Agreement should be
applied on a provisional basis pending its entry into
force,

HAVE DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

Having regard to the draft from the Commission,

Article 1

Whereas:

(1) The ACP-EC Agreement will not enter into force until the
constitutional requirements of each Member State have
been completed in accordance with Article 93 thereof.

(2) The ACP-EC Committee of Ambassadors took a Decision
on 28 February whereby transitional measures applicable
until 1 August 2000 were adopted.

(3)

(4)

In accordance with Article 366(3) of the Fourth ACP-EC
Convention, as amended by the agreement signed in
Mauritius on 4 November 1995, the ACP-EC Council of
Ministers has adopted through Decision 1/2000 1 (1)
transitional measures
the period between
to cover
2 August 2000 until the ACP-EC Agreement enters into
force.

In accordance with Article 6 of Decision 1/2000, the
Member States and Community will be required to take
the steps appropriate to each of them with regard to the
implementation of the transitional measures.

(5) The Member States, meeting within the Council, have
reached a consensus concerning an Internal Agreement
on the financing and administration of Community aid
to the ACP States that corresponds to the provisions on
programming and implementation of the Agreement.

(1) OJ L 195, 1.8.2000, p. 46.

The following provisions of the Internal Agreement relating
to the 9th European Development Fund shall be applied
provisionally as of the date of adoption of this Decision:

(1) Articles 14, 15, 16, 19(1), 19(2), 19(3) and 19(4) relating
to the implementation of the programming process;

(2) Articles 21 to 27 for the purposes of the implementation

of the programming process;

(3) Articles 29 and 30 for the purposes of the preparation of

the functioning of the Investment Facility; and

(4) Article 31 for the purposes of the adoption of the

Financial Regulation.

Article 2

This Decision shall remain in force until the entry into force
of the Internal Agreement, but no longer than 1 June 2002.

The Representatives of the Governments of the Member States
may decide to extend its applicability.

It shall be published in the Official Journal of the European
Communities.

Done at Brussels, the 3 October 2000.

On behalf of the Governments of the Member States

The President

C. PIERRET