# Council Decision of 14 November 2011 on the signing, on behalf of the European Union, and the provisional application of the Protocol agreed between the European Union and the Republic of Guinea-Bissau setting out fishing opportunities and the financial contribution provided for in the Fisheries Partnership Agreement between the two parties currently in force (2011/885/EU), Article 13: Suspension of application of this Protocol on grounds of non-payment


Subject to Article 4, if the European Union fails to make the payments provided for in Article 2, application of this Protocol may be suspended on the following terms:
(a) the competent Guinea-Bissau authorities shall notify the European Commission of the non-payment. The European Commission shall carry out the necessary checks and, where necessary, transmit the payment within no more than 30 working days of the date of receipt of the notification;
(b) if no payment is made and non-payment is not adequately justified within the period provided for in point (a), the competent Guinea-Bissau authorities shall be entitled to suspend application of this Protocol. They shall inform the European Commission of such action forthwith.
Application of this Protocol shall resume as soon as the payments concerned have been made.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2011/885/attachment/1/article/13 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2011-885/attachment-1/article-13
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