Legal provisions of COM(2010)559 - Commission opinion pursuant to Article 355(6) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU on the initiative of the French Government to amend the status of Saint-Barthélemy with regard to the Union

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dossier COM(2010)559 - Commission opinion pursuant to Article 355(6) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU on the initiative of the French ...
document COM(2010)559 EN
date November 13, 2010

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Article 1

With effect from 1 January 2012, the island of Saint-Barthélemy shall cease to be an outermost region of the Union and shall have the status of overseas country or territory referred to in Part Four of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU).

Article 2

The TFEU shall consequently be amended as follows:

1.in the first paragraph of Article 349, the words ‘Saint-Barthélemy’ shall be deleted;

2.in Article 355(1), the words ‘Saint-Barthélemy’ shall be deleted;

3.in Annex II, an indent shall be inserted, between that relating to ‘Saint Pierre and Miquelon’ and that relating to ‘Aruba’, which shall read as follows:

‘—Saint-Barthélemy,’.

Article 3

This Decision shall enter into force on the date of its adoption.

It shall apply from 1 January 2012.