Considerations on COM(2018)730 - EU position in the Trade and Development Committee with the SADC EPA States as regards the adoption of the Roster of Arbitrators

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dossier COM(2018)730 - EU position in the Trade and Development Committee with the SADC EPA States as regards the adoption of the Roster of ...
document COM(2018)730 EN
date January 21, 2019
 
table>(1)The Economic Partnership Agreement between the European Union and its Member States, of the one part, and the SADC EPA States, of the other part (1) (‘the Agreement’) was signed by the Union and its Member States on 10 June 2016. It has been provisionally applied between the Union, of the one part, and Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, Eswatini and South Africa, of the other part, since 10 October 2016, and between the Union and Mozambique since 4 February 2018.
(2)Pursuant to Article 94(1) of the Agreement, the Trade and Development Committee is to establish a list of 21 individuals who are willing and able to serve as arbitrators, no later than three months after the entry into force of the Agreement.

(3)It is appropriate to establish the position to be taken on the Union's behalf within the Trade and Development Committee concerning the establishment of a list of arbitrators.

(4)The position of the Union within the Trade and Development Committee should therefore be based on the attached draft Decision,