Considerations on COM(2014)75 - Signing and provisional application of the Protocol to the Stabilisation and Association Agreement with Serbia to take account of the accession of Croatia to the EU

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dossier COM(2014)75 - Signing and provisional application of the Protocol to the Stabilisation and Association Agreement with Serbia to take ...
document COM(2014)75 EN
date April 14, 2014
 
table>(1)On 24 September 2012, the Council authorised the Commission to open negotiations, on behalf of the Union and its Member States and the Republic of Croatia, with the Republic of Serbia 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 Republic of Serbia, 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 initialled on 10 December 2013.

(3)The Protocol should be signed on behalf of the Union and its Member States, subject to its conclusion at a later date.

(4)The conclusion of the Protocol is subject to a separate procedure as regards matters falling within the competence of the European Atomic Energy Community.

(5)The Protocol should be applied on a provisional basis, pending the completion of the procedures for its conclusion,