{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2017-114/introduction",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2017/114",
  "legislation_title": "Political and Security Committee Decision (CFSP) 2017/114 of 10 January 2017 extending the mandate of the Head of the European Union Capacity Building Mission in Somalia (EUCAP Somalia/1/2017)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2017-114",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Political and Security Committee Decision (CFSP) 2017/114\nof 10 January 2017\nextending the mandate of the Head of the European Union Capacity Building Mission in Somalia (EUCAP Somalia/1/2017)\nTHE POLITICAL AND SECURITY COMMITTEE,\nHaving regard to the Treaty on European Union, and in particular the third paragraph of Article 38 thereof,\nHaving regard to Council Decision 2012/389/CFSP of 16 July 2012 on the European Union Capacity Building Mission in Somalia (EUCAP Somalia), and in particular Article 9(1) thereof,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nPursuant to Article 9(1) of Decision 2012/389/CFSP, the Political and Security Committee (PSC) is authorised, in accordance with the third paragraph of Article 38 of the Treaty, to take the relevant decisions for the purpose of exercising the political control and strategic direction of the European Union Capacity Building Mission in Somalia (EUCAP Somalia), including the decision to appoint a Head of Mission.\n(2)\nOn 26 July 2016, the PSC adopted Decision EUCAP NESTOR/1/2016, appointing Ms Maria-Cristina STEPANESCU as Head of EUCAP NESTOR from 1 September 2016 to 12 December 2016.\n(3)\nCouncil Decision (CFSP) 2016/2240 extended the mandate of the Mission EUCAP NESTOR until 31 December 2018 renaming it ‘EUCAP Somalia’.\n(4)\nOn 9 December 2016, the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy proposed to extend the mandate of Ms Maria-Cristina STEPANESCU as Head of EUCAP Somalia from 13 December 2016 to 12 December 2017,\nHAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 187, 17.7.2012, p. 40."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Political and Security Committee Decision (CFSP) 2016/1633 of 26 July 2016 on the appointment of the Head of Mission of the European Union Mission on Regional Maritime Capacity Building in the Horn of Africa (EUCAP NESTOR) (EUCAP NESTOR/1/2016) (OJ L 243, 10.9.2016, p. 8)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Council Decision (CFSP) 2016/2240 of 12 December 2016 amending Decision 2012/389/CFSP on the European Union Mission on Regional Maritime Capacity Building in the Horn of Africa (EUCAP NESTOR) (OJ L 337, 13.12.2016, p. 18)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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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."
}