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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2019-1355/introduction",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2019/1355",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision (EU) 2019/1355 of 15 July 2019 on the position to be taken on behalf of the European Union in the EPA Committee established under the stepping stone Economic Partnership Agreement between Côte d’Ivoire, of the one part, and the European Community and its Member States, of the other part, as regards the adoption of Protocol 1 concerning the definition of the concept of ‘originating products’ and methods of administrative cooperation",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2019-1355",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Council Decision (EU) 2019/1355\nof 15 July 2019\non the position to be taken on behalf of the European Union in the EPA Committee established under the stepping stone Economic Partnership Agreement between Côte d’Ivoire, of the one part, and the European Community and its Member States, of the other part, as regards the adoption of Protocol 1 concerning the definition of the concept of ‘originating products’ and methods of administrative cooperation\nTHE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,\nHaving regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Article 207(3) and (4), in conjunction with Article 218(9) thereof,\nHaving regard to the proposal from the European Commission,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nThe stepping stone Economic Partnership Agreement between Côte d’Ivoire, of the one part, and the European Community and its Member States, of the other part (‘the Agreement’) was signed on behalf of the Union in Abidjan on 26 November 2008 pursuant to Council Decision 2009/156/EC and has been applied on a provisional basis since 3 September 2016.\n(2)\nPursuant to Article 14 of the Agreement, and in order to benefit from the preferential treatment provided for in the Agreement, the parties to the Agreement are to establish a reciprocal common regime governing the rules of origin, which is to form an integral part of the Agreement by a decision of the EPA Committee.\n(3)\nAt its annual meeting in 2019, the EPA Committee is to adopt a decision as regards Protocol 1 concerning the definition of the concept of ‘originating products’ and the methods of administrative cooperation.\n(4)\nProtocol 1 provides for further simplification of the rules of origin and takes into account the most recent developments in order to provide more flexible and simpler rules of origin, with a view to facilitating trade for economic operators and to optimising the use of the preferential treatment provided for in the Agreement.\n(5)\nIt is appropriate to establish the position to be taken on behalf of the Union in the 2019 annual meeting of the EPA Committee, as that decision will be binding on the Union.\n(6)\nThe position of the Union in the APE Committee should therefore be based on the attached draft decision,\nHAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "text": "Council Decision 2009/156/EC of 21 November 2008 on the signature and provisional application of the stepping stone Economic Partnership Agreement between Côte d’Ivoire, of the one part, and the European Community and its Member States, of the other part (OJ L 59, 3.3.2009, p. 1)."
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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