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  "legislation": "eudn/2017/189",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision (EU) 2017/189 of 16 January 2017 on the positions to be adopted on behalf of the European Union within the Sanitary and Phytosanitary Management Sub-Committee, the Trade and Sustainable Development Sub-Committee, the Customs Sub-Committee and the Sub-Committee on Geographical Indications established pursuant to the Association Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community and their Member States, of the one part, and Ukraine, of the other part, as regards the adoption of the Rules of Procedure of those Sub-Committees",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2017-189",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Council Decision (EU) 2017/189\nof 16 January 2017\non the positions to be adopted on behalf of the European Union within the Sanitary and Phytosanitary Management Sub-Committee, the Trade and Sustainable Development Sub-Committee, the Customs Sub-Committee and the Sub-Committee on Geographical Indications established pursuant to the Association Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community and their Member States, of the one part, and Ukraine, of the other part, as regards the adoption of the Rules of Procedure of those Sub-Committees\nTHE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,\nHaving regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Article 207(4) in conjunction with Article 218(9) thereof,\nHaving regard to the proposal from the European Commission,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nArticle 486 of the Association Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community and their Member States, of the one part, and Ukraine, of the other part (‘the Agreement’) provides for the provisional application of the Agreement in part.\n(2)\nArticle 4 of Council Decision 2014/668/EU specifies the provisions of the Agreement to be applied provisionally. Those include the provisions on the establishment and functioning of the Sanitary and Phytosanitary Management Sub-Committee (‘the SPS Sub-Committee’), the Trade and Sustainable Development Sub-Committee (‘the TSD Sub-Committee’), the Customs Sub-Committee and the Sub-Committee on Geographical Indications (‘the GI Sub-Committee’).\n(3)\nArticle 74 of the Agreement provides that the SPS Sub-Committee is to establish its working procedures at the first meeting.\n(4)\nArticle 300 of the Agreement provides that the TSD Sub-Committee is to establish its rules of procedure.\n(5)\nArticle 83 of the Agreement provides that the Customs Sub-Committee is to establish its rules of procedure.\n(6)\nArticle 211 of the Agreement provides that the GI Sub-Committee is to establish its rules of procedure.\n(7)\nIt is appropriate to establish the positions to be adopted on the Union's behalf within the SPS Sub-Committee, the TSD Sub-Committee, the Customs Sub-Committee and the GI Sub-Committee with regard to the adoption of the Rules of Procedure of those Sub-Committees,\nHAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 161, 29.5.2014, p. 3."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Council Decision 2014/668/EU of 23 June 2014 on the signing, on behalf of the European Union, and provisional application of the Association Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community and their Member States, of the one part, and Ukraine, of the other part, as regards Title III (with the exception of the provisions relating to the treatment of third-country nationals legally employed as workers in the territory of the other Party) and Titles IV, V, VI and VII thereof, as well as the related Annexes and Protocols (OJ L 278, 20.9.2014, p. 1)."
    }
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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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