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United Kingdom

Council Decision (EU) 2018/13

of 18 December 2017

on the position to be adopted on behalf of the European Union within the EU-Serbia Stabilisation and Association Council on the participation of Serbia as an observer in the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights' work and the respective modalities thereof, within the framework of Regulation (EC) No 168/2007

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Article 352, in conjunction with Article 218(9) thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the European Commission,

Whereas:

(1)

The Luxembourg European Council of December 1997 made participation in Union agencies a way of stepping up the pre-accession strategy. The conclusions of that European Council state that the Union ‘agencies in which applicant countries will be able to participate will be determined on a case-by-case basis’.

(2)

Council Regulation (EC) No 168/2007^f1 provides that the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (the ‘Agency’) is to be open to the participation of candidate countries as observers.

(3)

Serbia shares the aims and objectives of the Agency and subscribes to the scope and description of the tasks of the Agency, as provided for in Regulation (EC) No 168/2007.

(4)

Serbia's ultimate objective is to become a member of the Union, and its participation in the Agency will help it to achieve that objective,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

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Footnotes

f1: Council Regulation (EC) No 168/2007 of 15 February 2007 establishing a European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (OJ L 53, 22.2.2007, p. 1).