Considerations on COM(2007)662 - Amendment of Regulation (EC) No 533/2004 on the establishment of partnerships in the framework of the stabilisation and association process

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dossier COM(2007)662 - Amendment of Regulation (EC) No 533/2004 on the establishment of partnerships in the framework of the stabilisation and ...
document COM(2007)662 EN
date March 10, 2008
 
(1) Council Regulation (EC) No 533/2004 of 22 March 2004, as last amended, on the establishment of partnerships in the framework of the stabilisation and association process[3] provides that partnerships will be established for all the Western Balkan countries.

(2) The European Council decided at its meeting in Brussels in December 2005 that the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia shall be a candidate country for membership of the European Union.

(3) It is therefore appropriate to provide that instead of a European Partnership, the European Union shall implement in its relations with the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia an Accession Partnership and to amend Regulation (EC) No 533/2004 accordingly.

(4) The State Union of Serbia and Montenegro has ceased to exist. Therefore, it is appropriate to amend the Regulation to take into account the fact that Serbia as well as Montenegro are now two independent states.

(5) The Regulation covers Accession Partnerships as well as European Partnerships. Therefore, the full text needs to take this into account.