2006/610/EC: Decision of the Representatives of the Governments of the Member States, meeting within the Council of 17 July 2006 on the provisional application of the Internal Agreement between the Representatives of the Governments of the Member States, meeting within the Council, on the financing of Community aid under the multiannual financial framework for the period 2008 to 2013 in accordance with the ACP-EC Partnership Agreement and the allocation of financial assistance for the Overseas Countries and Territories to which Part Four of the EC Treaty applies
Date: 2006-06-17
Institutions: Representatives of the Governments of the Member States
Subjects: ACP countries, Cotonou Agreement, EU aid, EU financing, EU relations, European Development Fund, distribution of aid, interim agreement (EU), overseas countries and territories

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Official Journal of the European Union

9.9.2006

CONFERENCE OF THE REPRESENTATIVES
OF THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE MEMBER STATES

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

of 17 July 2006

on the provisional application of the Internal Agreement between the Representatives of the
Governments of the Member States, meeting within the Council, on the financing of Community
aid under the multiannual financial framework for the period 2008 to 2013 in accordance with the
ACP-EC Partnership Agreement and the allocation of financial assistance for the Overseas Countries
and Territories to which Part Four of the EC Treaty applies

(2006/610/EC)

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

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to the Partnership Agreement between the
members of
the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of
States, of the one part, and the European Community and its
Member States, of the other part, signed in Cotonou on 23 June
‘the ACP-EC Partnership
2000 (hereinafter
Agreement’) (1) and amended by the Agreement signed in
Luxembourg on 25 June 2005 (hereinafter referred to as ‘the
Agreement amending the ACP-EC Partnership Agreement’) (2),

referred to as

(4)

(5)

the ACP-EC Council of Ministers
On 2 June 2006,
adopted the multiannual financial framework 2008 to
2013, set out in Annex Ib of the ACP-EC Partnership
Agreement.

The Member States, meeting within the Council, have
reached a consensus concerning an Internal Agreement
on the financing of Community aid to the ACP States
and to the OCTs under
financial
the multiannual
the period 2008 to 2013. This
for
framework
agreement will not enter into force before adoption by
each Member State in accordance with its own constitu-
tional requirements.

Having regard to Council Decision 2001/822/EC (3) on the
association of
the Overseas Countries and Territories (here-
inafter referred to as ‘the OCTs’) with the European Community,

(6)

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

Having regard to the draft submitted by the Commission,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

The Agreement
amending the ACP-EC Partnership
Agreement will not enter into force until the constitu-
tional requirements of each Member State have been
completed in accordance with Article 93 of the ACP-
EC Partnership Agreement.

The ACP-EC Council of Ministers has adopted, by means
of Decision 5/2005 (4), transitional measures applicable
from the date of signing to the date of entry into force of
the Agreement
the ACP-EC Partnership
Agreement.

amending

In accordance with Article 2 of Decision 5/2005, the
Member States and the Community are invited to take
appropriate steps in order to implement the transitional
measures.

(1) OJ L 317, 15.12.2000, p. 3.
(2) OJ L 209, 11.8.2005, p. 27.
(3) OJ L 314, 30.11.2001, p. 1.
(4) OJ L 287, 28.10.2005, p. 1.

HAVE DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

Article 1

The following provisions of the Internal Agreement relating to
the 10th European Development Fund (hereinafter referred to as
‘EDF’) shall be applied provisionally from the date of
the
adoption of this Decision:

1. Article 1(7), in conjunction with Articles 8 and 9, insofar as
the Council shall adopt the final schedule of contributions to
be made by Romania and Bulgaria as well as their final
voting weights
and
blocking minority rules after their accession to the EU and
in accordance with the Internal Agreement;

and the new qualified majority

2. Article 10 for the purposes of the adoption of the Imple-
mentation Regulation and the Financial Regulation and, inter
alia, for the purposes of establishing the EDF Committee and
the Investment Facility Committee in connection with
Articles 8 and 9.

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Article 2

This Decision shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

It shall remain in force until the entry into force of the Internal Agreement, subject to any further decision
by the Representatives of the Governments of the Member States to extend it.

Done at Brussels, 17 July 2006.

On behalf of the Government of the Member States
The President

E. TUOMIOJA