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  "legislation": "eudn/2017/768",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision (EU) 2017/768 of 18 July 2016 on the signing, on behalf of the European Union and its Member States, and provisional application of a Protocol to the Euro-Mediterranean Agreement establishing an Association between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Arab Republic of Egypt, of the other part, to take account of the accession of the Republic of Croatia to the European Union",
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  "text": "Council Decision (EU) 2017/768\nof 18 July 2016\non the signing, on behalf of the European Union and its Member States, and provisional application of a Protocol to the Euro-Mediterranean Agreement establishing an Association between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Arab Republic of Egypt, of the other part, to take account of the accession of the Republic of Croatia to the European Union\nTHE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,\nHaving regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Article 217, in conjunction with Article 218(5) thereof,\nHaving regard to the Act of Accession of the Republic of Croatia, and in particular Article 6(2) thereof,\nHaving regard to the proposal from the European Commission,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nThe Euro-Mediterranean Agreement establishing an Association between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Arab Republic of Egypt, of the other part (‘the Agreement’), was signed on 25 June 2001. The Agreement entered into force on 1 June 2004.\n(2)\nThe Republic of Croatia became a Member State of the European Union on 1 July 2013.\n(3)\nIn accordance with Article 6(2) of the Act of Accession of the Republic of Croatia, the accession of the Republic of Croatia to the Agreement is to be agreed by means of a protocol to the Agreement concluded between the Council, acting unanimously on behalf of the Member States, and the Arab Republic of Egypt.\n(4)\nOn 14 September 2012, the Council authorised the Commission to open negotiations with the Arab Republic of Egypt. The negotiations were successfully concluded by the initialling of a Protocol in Brussels on 29 October 2015.\n(5)\nArticle 8(3) of the Protocol provides for its provisional application before its entry into force.\n(6)\nThe Protocol should be signed, subject to its conclusion, and applied on a provisional basis,\nHAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "text": "OJ L 304, 30.9.2004, p. 39."
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