{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2012-404/introduction",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2012/404",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision of 16 July 2012 extending the period of application of the appropriate measures laid down for the Republic of Guinea in Decision 2011/465/EU and amending that Decision (2012/404/EU)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2012-404",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Council Decision\nof 16 July 2012\nextending the period of application of the appropriate measures laid down for the Republic of Guinea in Decision 2011/465/EU and amending that Decision\n(2012/404/EU)\nTHE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,\nHaving regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,\nHaving regard to the Partnership Agreement between the members of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States of the one part, and the European Community and its Member States, of the other part, signed in Cotonou on 23 June 2000, as last amended in Ouagadougou on 22 June 2010 (‘the ACP-EU Partnership Agreement’), and in particular Article 96 thereof,\nHaving regard to the Internal Agreement between the representatives of the governments of the Member States, meeting within the Council, on measures to be taken and procedures to be followed for the implementation of the ACP-EC Partnership Agreement, and in particular Article 3 thereof,\nHaving regard to the proposal from the European Commission,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nCouncil Decision 2011/465/EU lays down appropriate measures for the Republic of Guinea under Article 96 of the ACP-EU Partnership Agreement.\n(2)\nDecision 2011/465/EU requires that two benchmarks be achieved before cooperation with the Republic of Guinea under the 10th European Development Fund can be resumed; namely that a detailed timetable including preliminary dates and stages/preparatory operations be drawn up and adopted by the competent authorities for the holding of parliamentary elections by the end of 2011, and that free and transparent parliamentary elections be held.\n(3)\nTo date, neither of these benchmarks has been met.\n(4)\nIt is therefore necessary to extend the period of application of the appropriate measures laid down in Decision 2011/465/EU and to extend the time-limit set in those measures for the holding of parliamentary elections in the Republic of Guinea until the end of 2012,\nHAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 317, 15.12.2000, p. 3."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Agreement amending for the second time the Partnership Agreement between the members of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States, of the one part, and the European Community and its Member States, of the other part, signed in Cotonou on 23 June 2000, as first amended in Luxembourg on 25 June 2005 (OJ L 287, 4.11.2010, p. 3)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "OJ L 317, 15.12.2000, p. 376."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "OJ L 195, 27.7.2011, p. 2."
    }
  ],
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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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