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  "legislation": "eudn/1997/474",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision of 24 February 1997 concerning the conclusion of two Agreements between the European Community and the State of Israel on, respectively, procurement by telecommunications operators and government procurement (97/474/EC)",
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  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Council Decision\nof 24 February 1997\nconcerning the conclusion of two Agreements between the European Community and the State of Israel on, respectively, procurement by telecommunications operators and government procurement\n(97/474/EC)\nTHE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,\nHaving regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Articles 113, 66, 57 (2) in conjunction with Article 228 (3), first sentence, and Article 228 (4) thereof,\nHaving regard to the proposal from the Commission,\nHaving regard to the opinion of the European Parliament,\nWhereas the Agreements between the European Community and the State of Israel on, respectively, procurement by telecommunications operators and government procurement should be approved;\nWhereas these agreements concern public procurements to award contracts for goods, works and other services; whereas such other services cannot be reduced to the sole hypothesis of transfrontier services; whereas in its judgment of 7 March 1996 the Court of Justice of the European Community indicated that, in the present state of Community law, Article 113 of the Treaty establishing the European Community is not sufficient to base a Council Decision to conclude an agreement which concerns, on an independent basis, the provision of services whose nature cannot be considered as merely transfrontier; whereas it is therefore appropriate to base this Decision also on Article 66 of the said Treaty, in conjunction with Article 57 (2), which provides the procedural requirement necessary for its application;\nWhereas it is appropriate for the Council to authorize the Commission, in consultation with a special committee to be appointed by the Council, to approve modifications, on behalf of the Community, to Annexes I and II to the first of the abovementioned Agreements; whereas, however, such authorization will be limited, as far as Annex I is concerned, to the modifications resulting from the application of the procedure of Article 8 of Council Directive 93/38/EEC of 14 June 1993 coordinating the procurement procedures of entities operating in the water, energy, transport and telecommunications sector and, as far as Annex II is concerned, to the results of future negotiations within the framework of the 1996 Government Procurement Agreement,\nHAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ No C 162, 6. 6. 1996, p. 10."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ No C 33, 3. 2. 1997, p. 117."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "OJ No L 199, 9. 8. 1993, p. 84."
    }
  ],
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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