Source: EURLEX
Language: en
Format: md

**Council of the**
**European Union**

**Interinstitutional File:**

**2021/0098(NLE)**

**'I/A' ITEM NOTE**

**Brussels, 30 April 2021**
**(OR. en)**

**7809/21**
**ADD 1**

**WTO 102**

From: General Secretariat of the Council

To: Permanent Representatives Committee/Council

No. Cion doc.: 7808/21

Subject: Council Decision on the position to be taken on behalf of the European
Union in the Council for Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property
Rights of the World Trade Organization

          - Adoption

7809/21 ADD 1 BK/sy 1
# RELEX.1.A EN

**Statement by the Commission**

The Commission considers that the Council Decision should be addressed to the Commission,

and therefore considers the changes to Article 2 to be inappropriate.

The expression of the Union position in a body set up by an agreement is an act of external

representation of the Union which, in accordance with Article 17(1) TEU, is the institutional

prerogative of the Commission.

The Commission reserves all its rights in this regard.

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# RELEX.1.A EN