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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2016-436/introduction",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2016/436",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision (EU) 2016/436 of 15 March 2016 on the position to be adopted, on behalf of the European Union, within the Customs 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 the Republic of Moldova, of the other part, as regards the replacement of Protocol II to that Agreement, concerning the definition of the concept of ‘originating products’ and methods of administrative cooperation",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2016-436",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Council Decision (EU) 2016/436\nof 15 March 2016\non the position to be adopted, on behalf of the European Union, within the Customs 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 the Republic of Moldova, of the other part, as regards the replacement of Protocol II to that Agreement, concerning the definition of the concept of ‘originating products’ and methods of administrative cooperation\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 II to the Association Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Moldova, of the other part (the ‘Agreement’), concerns the definition of the concept of ‘originating products’ and methods of administrative cooperation (‘Protocol II’).\n(2)\nMost of the provisions on trade and trade-related matters of the Agreement, including Protocol II, have been applied provisionally since 1 September 2014.\n(3)\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 to that Convention.\n(4)\nThe Union signed the Convention on 15 June 2011. The Joint Committee of the Convention decided, by Decision No 2 of 21 May 2014, that the Republic of Moldova should be invited to accede to the Convention.\n(5)\nThe Union and the Republic of Moldova deposited their instruments of acceptance with the depositary of the Convention on 26 March 2012 and 31 July 2015, respectively. Consequently, pursuant to Article 10(3) of the Convention, the Convention entered into force in relation to the Union and the Republic of Moldova on 1 May 2012 and 1 September 2015, respectively.\n(6)\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 Customs Sub-Committee established by the Agreement (the ‘Customs Sub-Committee’) should adopt a decision replacing Protocol II by a new protocol which, with regard to the rules of origin, refers to the Convention.\n(7)\nThe position of the Union within the Customs Sub-Committee 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 260, 30.8.2014, p. 4."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ L 54, 26.2.2013, p. 4."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "OJ L 217, 23.7.2014, p. 88."
    }
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  "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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