# Council Decision (EU) 2016/2354 of 12 December 2016 on the position to be adopted, on behalf of the European Union, within the Sanitary and Phytosanitary Sub-Committee established by the Association Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community and their Member States, of the one part, and Georgia, of the other, as regards the modification of Annex XI-B to that Agreement, Introduction: Introductory text

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Council Decision (EU) 2016/2354
of 12 December 2016
on the position to be adopted, on behalf of the European Union, within the Sanitary and Phytosanitary Sub-Committee established by the Association Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community and their Member States, of the one part, and Georgia, of the other, as regards the modification of Annex XI-B to that Agreement
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular the first paragraph of Article 207(4), in conjunction with Article 218(9) thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the European Commission,
Whereas:
(1)
The Association Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community and their Member States, of the one part, and Georgia, of the other part (‘the Agreement’) entered into force on 1 July 2016.
(2)
Pursuant to Article 55 of the Agreement, Georgia is to gradually approximate its sanitary and phytosanitary and animal welfare legislative measures to those of the Union as set out in Annex XI to the Agreement.
(3)
Pursuant to Article 55(4) of the Agreement, Georgia is to submit a list of the EU sanitary, phytosanitary and animal welfare legislative measures to which it intends to approximate its domestic legislation, no later than 6 months after the entry into force of the Agreement. That approximation list is to serve as a reference document for the implementation of Chapter 4 (Sanitary and phytosanitary measures) of Title IV (Trade and Trade-related Matters) of the Agreement, and is to be added to Annex XI to the Agreement. Accordingly, Annex XI-B to the Agreement is to be modified by a decision of the Sanitary and Phytosanitary Sub-Committee (‘SPS Sub-Committee’), as set out in Article 65 of the Agreement.
(4)
Georgia submitted the approximation list of the EU legislative measures in February 2015 and finalised it, in consultation with the Commission, in December 2015.
(5)
It is appropriate to establish the position to be adopted on the Union's behalf within the SPS Sub-Committee with regard to the modification of Annex XI-B to the Agreement,
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

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