Legal provisions of COM(2023)419 - Authorisation of the European Commission to participate, on behalf of the EU, in negotiations on a Council of Europe Convention superseding and replacing the 1998 Convention on the Protection of the Environment through Criminal Law (ETS No. 172), as well as a draft Explanatory Report thereto

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dossier COM(2023)419 - Authorisation of the European Commission to participate, on behalf of the EU, in negotiations on a Council of Europe ...
document COM(2023)419
date July  7, 2023


Article 1

The Commission is hereby authorised to negotiate on behalf of the Union, the new Convention on the protection of the environment through criminal law superseding and replacing the 1998 Council of Europe Convention on the protection of the environment through criminal law.

Article 2

The negotiating directives are set out in the Annex.

Article 3

The negotiations shall be conducted in consultation with the [name of the special committee to be inserted by the Council].

Article 4

This Decision is addressed to the Commission.