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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2013-93/introduction",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2013/93",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision of 14 April 2011 on the signing, on behalf of the European Union, of the Regional Convention on pan-Euro-Mediterranean preferential rules of origin (2013/93/EU)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2013-93",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Council Decision\nof 14 April 2011\non the signing, on behalf of the European Union, of the Regional Convention on pan-Euro-Mediterranean preferential rules of origin\n(2013/93/EU)\nTHE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,\nHaving regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular the first subparagraph of Article 207(4), in conjunction with Article 218(5) thereof,\nHaving regard to the proposal from the European Commission,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nThe Regional Convention on pan-Euro-Mediterranean preferential rules of origin, hereinafter referred to as ‘the Convention’, aims at replacing the protocols on rules of origin currently in force among the countries of the pan-Euro-Mediterranean area.\n(2)\nThe participants in the Stabilisation and Association Process have been included in the pan-Euro-Mediterranean system of cumulation of origin through the Convention.\n(3)\nOn 26 November 2009 the Council authorised the Commission to open negotiations with the EFTA States, the participants in the Barcelona Process, the participants in the Stabilisation and Association Process and the Faroe Islands on the Convention.\n(4)\nOn 9 December 2009 the text of the Convention was endorsed by the Euromed Trade Ministers at their Conference held in Brussels.\n(5)\nThe Convention should be signed and the attached Declaration be approved,\nHAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2013/93/introduction",
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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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