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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-1998-461/introduction",
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  "legislation": "eudn/1998/461",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision of 13 July 1998 on financing the fixed costs of the system of managing technical assistance for the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) States and the overseas countries and territories (OCT) (98/461/EC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-1998-461",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Council Decision\nof 13 July 1998\non financing the fixed costs of the system of managing technical assistance for the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) States and the overseas countries and territories (OCT)\n(98/461/EC)\nTHE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,\nHaving regard to the fourth ACP-EC Convention, signed at Lome on 15 December 1989 and amended by the agreement signed in Mauritius on 4 November 1995,\nHaving regard to Council Decision 91/482/EEC of 25 July 1991 on the association of the overseas countries and territories with the European Economic Community,\nHaving regard to the Internal Agreement on the financing and administration of Community aid under the second financial protocol of the fourth ACP-EC Convention, hereafter called the ‘Internal Agreement’, and in particular Article 9 thereof,\nHaving regard to the proposal from the Commission,\nWhereas it is necessary to cover, for a period of four years, the fixed costs arising from the replacement of the European Association for Cooperation for the Management of Technical Assistance for the ACP States and the OCT;\nWhereas the revenue accruing from the interest on the deposited funds referred to in Article 9(2) of the Internal Agreement would cover these fixed costs,\nHAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 263, 19. 9. 1991, p. 1. Decision as last amended by Decision 97/803/EC (OJ L 329, 29. 11. 1997, p. 50)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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