Introductory text
United Kingdom
Council Decision (EU) 2016/1850
of 21 November 2008
on the signature and provisional application of the stepping stone Economic Partnership Agreement between Ghana, of the one part, and the European Community and its Member States, of the other part
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Articles 133 and 181 in conjunction with the first sentence of the first subparagraph of Article 300(2) thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas:
(1)
On 12 June 2002 the Council authorised the Commission to open negotiations of Economic Partnership Agreements with ACP countries.
(2)
Negotiations of a stepping stone Economic Partnership Agreement (hereinafter referred to as the ‘stepping stone EPA’) have been concluded with Ghana and the stepping stone EPA was initialled on 13 December 2007.
(3)
Article 75 of the stepping stone EPA provides for its provisional application pending its entry into force.
(4)
The stepping stone EPA should be signed on behalf of the Community and applied, as concerns elements falling within the competence of the Community, on a provisional basis subject to its conclusion at a later date,
HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS: