COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT pursuant to Article 294(6) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union concerning the position of the Council on the adoption of a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning certain procedures for applying the Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Serbia, of the other part
Date: 2014-01-31
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Serbia, import (EU), marketing standard, stabilisation and association agreement, technical standard, trade agreement (EU)

EUROPEAN 
COMMISSION 

Brussels, 31.1.2014  
COM(2014) 58 final 

2011/0465 (COD) 

COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION 
TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT 

pursuant to Article 294(6) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union 

concerning the 

position of the Council on the adoption of a Regulation of the European Parliament and 
of the Council concerning certain procedures for applying the Stabilisation and 
Association Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, 
of the one part, and the Republic of Serbia, of the other part 

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2011/0465 (COD) 

COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION 
TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT 

pursuant to Article 294(6) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union 

concerning the 

position of the Council on the adoption of a Regulation of the European Parliament and 
of the Council concerning certain procedures for applying the Stabilisation and 
Association Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, 
of the one part, and the Republic of Serbia, of the other part 

1. 

BACKGROUND 

Date of transmission of the proposal to the European Parliament and 
to the Council 
(document COM(2011) 0938 – 2011/0465 COD): 

10 January 2012 

Date  of  the  opinion  of  the  European  Economic  and  Social 
Committee: 

n.a. 

Date of the position of the European Parliament, first reading: 

25 October 2012 

Date of transmission of the amended proposal: 

n.a. 

Date of adoption of the position of the Council: 

28 January 2014 

2. 

OBJECTIVE OF THE PROPOSAL FROM THE COMMISSION 

The  objective  of  the  proposal  is  to  adopt  a  regulation  on  rules  and  procedures  for  the 
implementation of certain trade related provisions of the Stabilisation and Accession Agreement 
between the European Communities and their Member States of the one part, and the Republic 
of  Serbia,  of  the  other  part  (SAA),  and  of  the  Interim  Agreement  on  trade  and  trade-related 
matters between the European Community, on the one part, and the Republic of Serbia, on the 
other  part  (IA),  such  as  those  regarding  trade  concessions,  technical  adaptations,  safeguard 
measures, competition and fraud.  

3. 

COMMENTS ON THE POSITION OF THE COUNCIL 

This proposal depended upon the result of the Trade Omnibus I package. The Trade Omnibus I 
package  aimed  at  amending  existing  trade  regulations  with  the  view  to  introducing  the  new 
comitology rules, following the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon. Some of the regulations 
concerned are regulations for the implementation of SAAs with other Western Balkan countries, 
which are similar to the present proposal.  

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In  July  2013,  a  compromise  was  found  on  the  new  comitology  rules  in  the  Trade  Omnibus  I 
package. The text of the proposal was amended in order to incorporate the revised comitology 
rules  agreed  under  the  Trade  Omnibus  I  package  on  similar  regulations.  Furthermore,  the 
proposal  was  also  amended  in  order  to  take  into  account  the  fact  that  the  IA  ceased  to  exist 
when  the  SAA  entered  into  force  on  1  September  2013.  Finally,  a  provision  on  retroactive 
application  of  Articles  2,  3  and  4  of  the  Regulation  was  agreed  in  order  to  apply  these 
provisions from 1 February 2010. 

At an informal trilogue on 26 November 2013, a provisional agreement on this revised proposal 
was reached.  

4. 

CONCLUSION 

The  Commission  can  therefore  accept  the  amendments  introduced  by  the  Council  to  its 
proposal. 

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