CELEX: 52001PC0090(01)
Language: en
Date: 2001-02-19
Title: Proposal for a Council Decision on the signing on behalf of the European Community, of the Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the European Communities and its Member States and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

C 213 E/22        EN                       Official Journal of the European Communities                              31.7.2001
           Proposal for a Council Decision on the signing on behalf of the European Community, of the
           Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the European Communities and its Member
                                   States and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
                                                         (2001/C 213 E/05)
                                            COM(2001) 90 final  2001/0049(AVC)
                                        (Submitted by the Commission on 19 February 2001)
           THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
           Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 310 in
           conjunction with the first sentence of the first subparagraph of Article 300(2) thereof,
           Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
           Whereas:
           (1) Negotiations with the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia of the Stabilisation and Association
               Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the
               former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, of the other part, have been completed.
           (2) The commercial provisions contained in this Agreement are of an exceptional nature, connected with
               the policy implemented within the framework of the stabilisation and association process and will not
               constitute, for the European Union, any precedent in the commercial policy of the Community with
               regard to third countries other than those of the Western Balkans.
           (3) Subject to a possible conclusions at a later date, the Agreement initialled on 24 November 2000
               should therefore be signed on behalf of the European Community,
           HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:
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           Subject to a possible conclusions at a later date, the President of the Council is hereby authorised to
           designate the persons empowered to sign, on behalf of the European Community, the Stabilisation and
           Association Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and
           the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, of the other part.