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  "legislation": "eudn/2016/1850",
  "legislation_title": "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",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2016-1850",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Council Decision (EU) 2016/1850\nof 21 November 2008\non 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\nTHE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,\nHaving 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,\nHaving regard to the proposal from the Commission,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nOn 12 June 2002 the Council authorised the Commission to open negotiations of Economic Partnership Agreements with ACP countries.\n(2)\nNegotiations 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.\n(3)\nArticle 75 of the stepping stone EPA provides for its provisional application pending its entry into force.\n(4)\nThe 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,\nHAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2016/1850/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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