Council Decision 2014/42/CFSP of 28 January 2014 amending Decision 2012/281/CFSP in the framework of the European Security Strategy in support of the Union proposal for an international Code of Conduct on outer-space activities

29.1.2014 EN Official Journal of the European Union L 26/42
COUNCIL DECISION 2014/42/CFSP
of 28 January 2014
amending Decision 2012/281/CFSP in the framework of the European Security Strategy in support of the Union proposal for an international Code of Conduct on outer-space activities
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
,
Having regard to the Treaty on European Union, and in particular Article 26(2),
Whereas:
(1) On 29 May 2012, the Council adopted Decision 2012/281/CFSP in the framework of the European Security Strategy in support of the Union proposal for an international Code of Conduct on outer-space activities (1).
(2) Decision 2012/281/CFSP provides for the organisation of up to three multilateral experts’ meetings to discuss the proposal for an international Code of Conduct.
(3) Multilateral experts’ meetings were held in Vienna in June 2012, in Kiev in May 2013 and in Bangkok in November 2013.
(4) After the successful multilateral experts’ meeting held in Bangkok, it became apparent that the international community would welcome a fourth and final multilateral experts’ meeting. Such a meeting could take place in Africa.
(5) A fourth and final multilateral experts’ meeting could be organised within the initial financial reference amount indicated in Decision 2012/281/CFSP and thus without any additional resource implication.
(6) Decision 2012/281/CFSP should, therefore, be amended to enable the organisation of a fourth and final multilateral experts’ meeting and its period of application should be extended accordingly,