CELEX: 51994PC0373
Language: en
Date: 1994-09-20
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL DECISION on the conclusion of an Agreement, in the form of an Exchange of Letters concerning the amendment to the Agreement on fisheries between the European Community, on the one hand, and the Government of Danmark and the local Government of Greenland, on the other

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
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                                                     Brussels, 07.09.1994
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                                 Recommendation for a
                                   COUNCIL DECISION
               concerning the signing of a convention on desertification
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                            (presented by the Commission)
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 ---pagebreak--- 1. Following the recommendations of the Rio de Janeiro UN conference
   on Environment and Development (UNCED) in June 1992, the
   47th session of the UN General Assembly set up an intergovernmental
   negotiating committee (INC-D) to prepare by June of this year an
   international convention to combat desertification, especially in
   Africa.
   Since work on the draft convention began, it has been examined at
   five INC-D meetings on the subject in Nairobi (May-June 1993),
   Geneva (September 1993), New York (January 1994), Geneva (March
   1994) and lastly in Paris (June 1994), where negotiations on the
   convention and its four annexes were completed.
2. On 13 June, the Council formally authorized the Commission to
   continue to pail ici pale in M'MJOI iat ion:; on behaI I of the community,
   which the Commission did in accordance with the mandate given it by
   the Council.1
3. The reasons for the draft convention and for Community
   participation were set out in the explantory memorandum of the
   recommendation from the Commission for a Council decision relating
   to the convention and its protocols (attached).^ Article 33 of the
   draft stipulates that it may be signed by states and regional
   economic integration organizations, subject to ratification,
   approval and accession.
4. The final draft is not yet ready for presentation to the Council
   since it has to be checked by the lawyer-linguists before it is
   signed in Paris in the autumn (dates to be confirmed).
5. In view of the outcome of the negotiations, the Commission believes
   the Community is in a position to sign the convention subject to
   its approval, for which a proposal will be prepared later.
6. The Commission therefore proposes that the Council:
       decide that the convention be signed on behalf of the Community
       and
       authorize the President of the Council to appoint the persons
       duly empowered to sign on behalf of the Community.
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