2001/321/EC: Decision No 1/2001 of the EU-Morocco Association Council of 4 April 2001 setting up a working party on social affairs and migration
Date: 2001-04-04
Institutions: Association Council
Subjects: European Association Agreement, Morocco, anti-discriminatory measure, social policy

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COUNCIL

DECISION No 1/2001 OF THE EU-MOROCCO ASSOCIATION COUNCIL

setting up a working party on social affairs and migration

of 4 April 2001

(2001/321/EC)

THE ASSOCIATION COUNCIL,

3. dialogue in accordance with Article 69 of the Agreement;

Having regard to the Euro-Mediterranean Agreement estab-
lishing an association between the European Communities and
their Member States, of the one part, and the Kingdom of
Morocco, of the other part (1),

Whereas:

Article 73 of the Agreement provides that a working party be
set up to evaluate continuously and regularly the implementa-
tion of Chapters I, II and III of Title VI of the Agreement,

4. cooperation projects referred to in Article 71 of the Agree-

ment.

Article 3

The working party shall be convened by its chair with the
parties' mutual consent. It shall meet alternately in Brussels and
in the territory of Morocco.

Article 4

HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

The working party shall be chaired in turn by a representative
of the party acting as President of the Association Council.

Article 1

Article 5

Pursuant to Article 73 of the Euro-Mediterranean Agreement
establishing an association between the European Communities
and their Member States, of the one part, and the Kingdom of
Morocco, of
the other part, hereinafter referred to as ‘the
Agreement’, a working party on social affaires and migration,
hereinafter referred to as ‘the working party’, is hereby set up to
perform a continuous and regular evaluation of the imple-
mentation of Chapters I, II and III of Title VI of the Agreement.

Article 2

The working party shall be competent in the following areas:

1. ensuring compliance with the principle of non-discrim-
ination on the basis of nationality between workers of
Moroccan nationality and workers who are nationals of
each Member State as regards working conditions, remu-
neration and dismissal and social security (within the
meaning of the Agreement);

2.

implementing the social security provisions laid down in
Articles 65 to 68 of the Agreement;

(1) OJ L 70, 18.3.2000, p. 1.

The chair shall draw up the provisional agenda for each
1.
meeting. It shall be sent with the convening notice to the
members of the working party no later than 20 days before the
beginning of the meeting.

The provisional agenda shall include the items in respect
2.
of which the chair has received a request for inclusion on the
agenda together with any relevant document from any of the
working party's members not later than 25 days before the
date of the meeting.

3.
The agenda shall be adopted by the working party at the
beginning of each meeting. Any item other than those on the
provisional agenda may be placed on the agenda if
the
Community and its Member States, of the one part, and the
Kingdom of Morocco, of the other part, so agree.

Article 6

The working party shall consist of officials of the Member
States of
the European Communities, Morocco and the
Commission of the European Communities assisted by officials
of the General Secretariat of the Council of the European
Union.

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An official of the General Secretariat of the Council of the
European Union and an official of the Moroccan Government
shall jointly provide the working party with secretarial services.

If both parties agree that
the presence or participation of
particular experts is required in order to obtain specialised
information, the working party may invite such experts for
such purposes as it shall define.

Article 7

The working party shall report after each of its meetings to the
Association Council and may submit to it drafts or proposals
for decisions and/or recommendations.

Article 8

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

Done at Brussels, 4 April 2001.

For the Association Council

The President

M. BENAISSA