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  "legislation": "eudn/2016/134",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision (EU) 2016/134 of 16 November 2015 on the position to be adopted on behalf of the European Union within the Stabilisation and Association Council established by the Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, of the other part, as regards the replacement of Protocol 2 to that Agreement, concerning the definition of the concept of ‘originating products’ and methods of administrative cooperation, by a new protocol which, as regards the rules of origin, refers to the Regional Convention on pan-Euro-Mediterranean preferential rules of origin",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2016-134",
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  "number": null,
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  "text": "Council Decision (EU) 2016/134\nof 16 November 2015\non the position to be adopted on behalf of the European Union within the Stabilisation and Association Council established by the Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, of the other part, as regards the replacement of Protocol 2 to that Agreement, concerning the definition of the concept of ‘originating products’ and methods of administrative cooperation, by a new protocol which, as regards the rules of origin, refers to the Regional Convention on pan-Euro-Mediterranean preferential rules of origin\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(9) thereof,\nHaving regard to the proposal from the European Commission,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nProtocol 2 to the Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, of the other part (‘the Agreement’), concerns the definition of the concept of ‘originating products’ and methods of administrative cooperation.\n(2)\nThe Regional Convention on pan-Euro-Mediterranean preferential rules of origin (‘the Convention’) lays down provisions on the origin of goods traded under relevant agreements concluded between the Contracting Parties. Bosnia and Herzegovina and other participants in the Stabilisation and Association Process from the Western Balkans were invited to join the system of pan-European diagonal cumulation of origin in the Thessaloniki agenda, endorsed by the European Council of June 2003. They were invited to join the Convention by a decision of the Euro-Mediterranean Ministerial Conference of October 2007.\n(3)\nThe Union and Bosnia and Herzegovina signed the Convention on 15 June 2011 and 24 September 2013 respectively.\n(4)\nThe Union and Bosnia and Herzegovina deposited their instruments of acceptance with the depositary of the Convention on 26 March 2012 and 26 September 2014 respectively. Consequently, pursuant to Article 10(3) of the Convention, the Convention entered into force in relation to the Union and Bosnia and Herzegovina on 1 May 2012 and on 1 November 2014 respectively.\n(5)\nArticle 6 of the Convention provides that each Contracting Party is to take appropriate measures to ensure that the Convention is effectively applied. To that effect, the Stabilisation and Association Council established by the Agreement should adopt a decision replacing Protocol 2 to the Agreement with a new protocol which, with regard to the rules of origin, refers to the Convention.\n(6)\nThe position of the Union within the Stabilisation and Association Council should therefore be based on the attached draft decision,\nHAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 164, 30.6.2015, p. 2."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ L 54, 26.2.2013, p. 4."
    }
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