Introductory text

United Kingdom

Council Decision (EU) 2016/803

of 7 May 2015

on the signing, on behalf of the Union and its Member States, and provisional application of a Protocol amending the Euro-Mediterranean Aviation Agreement between the European Union and its Member States, of the one part, and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, of the other part, to take account of the accession to the European Union of the Republic of Croatia

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Article 100(2), in conjunction with Article 218(5) thereof,

Having regard to the Act of Accession of Croatia, and in particular the second subparagraph of Article 6(2) thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the European Commission,

Whereas:

(1)

On 14 September 2012, the Council authorised the Commission to open negotiations, on behalf of the Union and its Member States and the Republic of Croatia, to conclude a Protocol amending the Euro-Mediterranean Aviation Agreement between the European Union and its Member States, of the one part, and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, of the other part^f1, to take account of the accession to the European Union of the Republic of Croatia (‘the Protocol’).

(2)

Those negotiations were successfully completed on 24 April 2014.

(3)

The Protocol should be signed on behalf of the Union and its Member States, subject to its conclusion at a later date.

(4)

The Protocol should be applied provisionally,

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Footnotes

f1: The text of the Agreement is published in OJ L 334, 6.12.2012, p. 3.