Considerations on COM(2013)778 - Approval of the conclusion by the Commission, on behalf of Euratom, of a Protocol to the Agreement with Macedonia to take account of the accession of Croatia to the EU

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dossier COM(2013)778 - Approval of the conclusion by the Commission, on behalf of Euratom, of a Protocol to the Agreement with Macedonia to take ...
document COM(2013)778 EN
date February 18, 2014
 
table>(1)On 24 September 2012, the Council authorised the Commission to open negotiations with the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia in order to conclude a Protocol to the Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, of the other part, to take account of the accession of the Republic of Croatia to the European Union (‘the Protocol’).
(2)Those negotiations were successfully completed and the Protocol was approved by the Government of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, through an exchange of letters on 25 October 2013.

(3)The conclusion, by the Commission, of the Protocol should be approved as regards matters falling within the competence of the European Atomic Energy Community.

(4)The signature and conclusion of the Protocol are subject to a separate procedure as regards matters falling within the competence of the Union and its Member States,