2007/745/EC: Council Decision of 28 September 2007 concerning the signature and provisional application of an Agreement between the European Community and the Swiss Confederation in the audio-visual field, establishing the terms and conditions for the participation of the Swiss Confederation in the Community programme MEDIA 2007, and a Final Act
Date: 2007-09-28
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: EU programme, European Community, Switzerland, audiovisual communications policy, interim agreement (EU), signature of an agreement

21.11.2007

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Official Journal of the European Union

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(Acts adopted under the EC Treaty/Euratom Treaty whose publication is not obligatory)

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DECISIONS

COUNCIL

COUNCIL DECISION

of 28 September 2007

concerning the signature and provisional application of an Agreement between the European
Community and the Swiss Confederation in the audio-visual field, establishing the terms and
the Swiss Confederation in the Community programme
conditions for the participation of

MEDIA 2007, and a Final Act

(2007/745/EC)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

MEDIA 2007 Community programme, and a Final Act
to the said Agreement.

establishing the European
Having regard to the Treaty
in
Community, and in particular Articles 150(4) and 157(3),
conjunction with the first sentence of Article 300(2) thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Whereas:

(1)

8

Decision No 1718/2006/EC of the European Parliament
and of the Council of 15 November 2006 concerning
the implementation of a programme of support for the
European audio-visual sector (MEDIA 2007) (1), and in
particular Article
the
thereof,
programme
shall be open to the participation of
countries which are parties to the Council of Europe
Convention on Transfrontier Television other
than
EFTA countries party to the EEA Agreement and
candidate
accession to the European
Union, on the basis of supplementary appropriations,
to be established in
in accordance with conditions
agreements between the parties concerned.

countries

provides

that

for

(2)

The Council has authorised the Commission to negotiate,
on behalf of the European Community, an Agreement to
enable the Swiss Confederation to participate in the

(1) OJ L 327, 24.11.2006, p. 12.

(3)

(4)

(5)

The negotiations were concluded on 2 July 2007 by the
initialling of a draft Agreement between the European
Community and the Swiss Confederation in the audio-
visual field, establishing the terms and conditions for the
participation of
Swiss Confederation in the
programme MEDIA 2007 (hereinafter
Community
referred to as ‘the Agreement’), and a Final Act.

the

Article 13 of the Agreement provides that the Agreement
shall be applied provisionally as from 1 September 2007.

Subject to conclusion at a later date, the Agreement and
the Final Act should be signed,

HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

Article 1

signing of

The
the Agreement between the European
Community and the Swiss Confederation in the audio-visual
field, establishing the terms and conditions for the participation
of
the Swiss Confederation in the Community programme
MEDIA 2007 (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Agreement’), and
of
the
Community, subject to the conclusion.

is hereby approved on behalf of

the Final Act,

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The texts of the Agreement and the Final Act are attached to
this Decision.

by Council and Commission Decision 2002/309/EC, Euratom
of 4 April 2002 (1).

Article 2

The President of the Council is hereby authorised to designate
the person(s) empowered to sign the Agreement and the Final
Act on behalf of
to the
conclusion.

the European Community, subject

Article 3

The Agreement shall be applied provisionally from 1 September
2007.

renegotiated in
shall not be extended or
The Agreement
accordance with its Article 12 in case the Agreements referred
to in the first paragraph of this Article have been terminated.

Article 6

This Decision shall be published in the Official Journal of the
European Union.

Article 4

The Commission shall represent the Community in the Joint
Committee established by Article 8 of the Agreement.

Done at Brussels, 28 September 2007.

Article 5

The Agreement is related to the seven Agreements with the
Swiss Confederation signed on 21 June 1999 and concluded

For the Council
The President

M. PINHO

(1) OJ L 114, 30.4.2002, p. 1.