Considerations on COM(2018)603 - Conclusion of a Protocol to the association agreement with Tunisia to take account of the accession of Croatia to the EU

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table>(1)The Euro-Mediterranean Agreement establishing an association between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Tunisia, of the other part (1) (‘the Agreement’), was signed on 17 July 1995. The Agreement entered into force on 1 March 1998.
(2)The Republic of Croatia became a Member State of the European Union on 1 July 2013.

(3)In accordance with Article 6(2) of the Act of Accession of the Republic of Croatia, the accession of the Republic of Croatia to the Agreement is to be agreed by means of a protocol to the Agreement (‘the Protocol’). Under a simplified procedure, a protocol is to be concluded between the Council, acting unanimously on behalf of the Member States, and the third country concerned.

(4)On 14 September 2012, the Council authorised the Commission to open negotiations with the third countries concerned in view of the accession of the Republic of Croatia to the Union. The negotiations with the Republic of Tunisia were concluded successfully on 11 May 2018.

(5)In accordance with Council Decision (EU) 2020/1420 (2) the Protocol was signed on behalf of the Union and its Member States in Brussels on 27 July 2020, subject to its conclusion at a later date.

(6)The Protocol should be approved on behalf of the Union and its Member States,