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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2013-331/schedule-ANNEX I/paragraph-2",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2013/331",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision of 22 April 2013 on the position to be taken on behalf of the European Union with regard to the adoption of the Rules of Procedure of the EPA Committee, the Customs Cooperation Committee and the Joint Development Committee provided for by the Interim Agreement establishing a framework for an Economic Partnership Agreement between the Eastern and Southern Africa States, on the one part, and the European Community and its Member States, on the other part (2013/331/EU)",
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  "path": "schedule/ANNEX I/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Composition and Chair",
  "text": "1. The EPA Committee is composed, on the one hand, of representatives of Signatory States from the Eastern and Southern Africa (‘Signatory ESA States’) and, on the other of representatives ofthe EU Party, at ministerial or senior official level.\n2. Reference to ‘the Parties’ in these Rules of Procedure is in accordance with the definition provided for in Article 61 of the Agreement.\n3. The EPA Committee at ministerial level shall be co-chaired by a representative of the Signatory ESA States and by a representative of the European Union (‘EU’). The EPA Committee at senior official level shall be co-chaired by the representatives of the Signatory ESA States, normally at senior official level and by the senior officials of the European Commission, on behalf of the EU Party. The Signatory ESA States assume chairmanship on a yearly rotating basis.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles and Zimbabwe."
    }
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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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