CELEX: 32013D0202
Language: en
Date: 2012-07-23 00:00:00
Title: 2013/202/EU: Council Decision of 23 July 2012 on the signing, on behalf of the Union, and provisional application of a Protocol to the Euro-Mediterranean Agreement establishing an Association between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, of the other part, on a Framework Agreement between the European Union and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan on the general principles for the participation of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in Union programmes

27.4.2013              EN                        Official Journal of the European Union                                                 L 117/1
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                                                            (Non-legislative acts)
                                        INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS
                                                         COUNCIL DECISION
                                                             of 23 July 2012
               on the signing, on behalf of the Union, and provisional application of a Protocol to the Euro-
               Mediterranean Agreement establishing an Association between the European Communities and
               their Member States, of the one part, and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, of the other part,
               on a Framework Agreement between the European Union and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
               on the general principles for the participation of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in Union
                                                               programmes
                                                              (2013/202/EU)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,                                         Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the
                                                                           Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, of the other part, on a
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European             Framework Agreement between the European Union and the
Union, and in particular Articles 217, in conjunction with                 Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan on the general principles for the
Article 218(5) and the first subparagraph of Article 218(8)                participation of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in Union
thereof,                                                                   programmes (‘the Protocol’) is hereby authorised on behalf of
                                                                           the Union, subject to its conclusion.
Having regard to the proposal from the European Commission,
Whereas:                                                                   The text of the Protocol is attached to this Decision.
(1)     On 18 June 2007 the Council authorised the                                                         Article 2
        Commission to negotiate a Protocol to the Euro-Medi­
        terranean Agreement establishing an Association between            The President of the Council is hereby authorised to designate
        the European Communities and their Member States, of               the person(s) empowered to sign the Protocol on behalf of the
        the one part, and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, of              Union.
        the other part (1), on a Framework Agreement between
        the European Union and the Hashemite Kingdom of                                                    Article 3
        Jordan on the general principles for the participation of
        the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in Union programmes                The Protocol shall be applied on a provisional basis as from the
        (‘the Protocol’).                                                  date of its signature (2), pending the completion of the
                                                                           procedures for its conclusion.
(2)     The negotiations have been concluded.
(3)     The Protocol should be signed on behalf of the Union,                                              Article 4
        subject to its conclusion.                                         This Decision shall enter into force on the day of its adoption.
(4)     The Protocol should be applied on a provisional basis in
        accordance with Article 10 thereof, pending the
        completion of the procedures for its conclusion,                   Done at Brussels, 23 July 2012.
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
                              Article 1                                                                            For the Council
The signing of the Protocol to the Euro-Mediterranean                                                               The President
Agreement establishing an Association between the European                                                           C. ASHTON
                                                                           (2) The date from which the Protocol will be provisionally applied will
                                                                               be published in the Official Journal of the European Union by the
(1) OJ L 129, 15.5.2002, p. 3.                                                 General Secretariat of the Council.