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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2019-1707/attachment-1",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2019/1707",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision (EU) 2019/1707 of 17 June 2019 on the position to be taken, on behalf of the European Union, in the Trade Committee established under the Interim Partnership Agreement between the European Community, of the one part, and the Pacific States, of the other part, as regards a recommendation for certain amendments to be made to the Agreement to take account of the accession of Samoa and of future accessions of other Pacific Island States",
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  "number": null,
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  "text": "DRAFT\nRECOMMENDATION No 01/2019 OF THE TRADE COMMITTEE SET UP BY THE INTERIM PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY, OF THE ONE PART, AND THE PACIFIC STATES, OF THE OTHER PART\nof …\nas regards the accession of Samoa and the future accessions of other Pacific Island States\nTHE TRADE COMMITTEE,\nHaving regard to the Interim Partnership Agreement between the European Community, of the one part, and the Pacific States, of the other part (the ‘Agreement’), which establishes a framework for an Economic Partnership Agreement, signed in London on 30 July 2009 and in particular Articles 68, 78 and 80 thereof,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nThe Independent State of Papua New Guinea and the Republic of Fiji signed the Agreement on 30 July 2009 and 11 December 2009 respectively and have been provisionally applying the Agreement since 20 December 2009 and 28 July 2014 respectively.\n(2)\nOn 5 February 2018, the Independent State of Samoa (Samoa) submitted to the Contracting Parties an accession request together with a GATT 1994 Article XXIV compliant market access offer for decision. Samoa acceded to the Agreement on 21 December 2018 and has been provisionally applying it since 31 December 2018.\n(3)\nIn light of Samoa’s accession, the Trade Committee has reviewed the Agreement and recommends to the Contracting Parties the adoption of technical amendments to the Agreement in order to list Samoa as a Contracting Party to the Agreement and to add Samoa’s market access offer to Annex II to the Agreement.\n(4)\nSimilar amendments will need to be made to the Agreement each time another Pacific Island State accedes to the Agreement.\n(5)\nThe Trade Committee suggests that it be empowered to decide on any technical modification to the Agreement that might be necessary following the accession of another Pacific Island State,\nHAS ADOPTED THIS RECOMMENDATION:\nThe Trade Committee recommends that the Parties:\n1.. replace paragraph 1 of Article 70 of the Agreement by the following:\n‘1. For the purposes of this Agreement the “Contracting Parties” shall be the European Community, referred to as the “EC Party”, on the one part, and Papua New Guinea, the Republic of the Fiji Islands and the Independent State of Samoa, referred to as the “Pacific States”, on the other part.’.\n2.. add the following paragraph 3 in Article 80 of the Agreement:\n‘3. The Trade Committee may decide on any technical modification to the Agreement that might be necessary following the accession of another Pacific Island State.’.\n3.. in Annex II to the Agreement, add the text of the agreed market access offer of the Independent State of Samoa, set out in the Annex to this Recommendation.\n4.. in Annex X to Protocol II to the Agreement, remove the reference to Samoa from the list of ‘other ACP States’.\nDone at …,\nFor the Trade Committee\nOn behalf of the Union\nOn behalf of the Pacific States",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 272, 16.10.2009, p. 2."
    }
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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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